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Paut 3.] Foole: Represenlatkes of the Govdwana Series, ^'c. 
The dif) is eastward or nor’th-eastward at angles from 8° or 10° up to 15° and 20.° 
Plant remains are rare; Mr. Blaiiford failed to find any, hut Mr. Oldham was more 
fortunate ; and I too succeeded in finding some in two beds. In the first case, the 
matrix was a rather coarse friable micaceous shale, and the remains neithci' 
characteri.stic nor preservable. In the second case, a fine-grained, rather soft, 
huffy-brown, sandy shale near the base of the series yielded well preserved, but 
fr’agmentary, remains of Pterophylluin sp., of PtdopliyTLum ciitchcnse ? and 
Angiopteridium spaihulatum, besides a Cycadeous (.*'), fririt and stalk-like frag* 
ments. 
V.— The Disputed Beds at Maravatur. 
According to Mr. H. F. Blanford’s views, no true plant beds occur northward 
of the Coodieaud-Kullpaudy patch just described, but, according to Dr. Oldham’s 
views, another patch of them occurs about a mile to the north of Maravatur 
(Moraviatoor of Sheet 79). Mr. H. F. Blanford contended strongly that the 
latter beds were really of cretaceous age, though petrologically very like the true 
plant beds further south; and based his contention mainly on the fact that he 
could “ not find any remains of plants,” while the stratigraphical relations of the 
disputed beds and the overlying Ootatoor beds appeared to indicate conformity 
and true sequence. Dr. Oldham, on the other hand, insisted that he had dis¬ 
covered true Rajmahal plants in these disputed beds in 1859, and again when he 
revisited the place in 1861. 
The results I obtained after a most careful examination of this disputed patch 
of ground compel me to adhere to Dr. Oldham s view, that it is an extension of 
the true plant beds. Plant remains do uncjuestionably occur in several of the 
beds near the gneiss, together with impressions and casts of a small bivalve 
shell. The plant remains are, it is true, very ill preseiwed and quite fragmentary, 
but patient searching yielded a number of specimens which admit of approxi¬ 
mate determination; and these represent some of the commonest forms in the 
undisputed plant beds of Terany and Ootatoor. Had I not found these plant 
remains, I should have sided with Mr. Blanford, for the stratigraphical evidence 
of a break is wanting. 
The fossil plants that are recognisable in the specimens 1 obtained are various 
fronds of Angiopteridium,, a fragment of a fern very near to Sphempteris, and 
fragments of Ptilophylhm,, Maerotemiopteris ovata (?), and Bktyozamites. I have 
sent up 19 specimens of plants in all to our Museum from Maravatur, and should 
have sent many more but that they had crumbled into dust, owing to the cases 
they were packed in having, together with much of my most valuable luggage, as 
despatch-box, book-box, gun-case, &c., been soaked in a tank for some while through 
the cleverness of a cartman. As will be readily understood, when the identity of 
the source of the materials of which both the plant beds and overlying cretaceous 
rocks are formed is considered, thei’e is a very strong petrological resemblance 
between many of the beds in both formations. There is quite as great a variety 
in mineral character and colour among the members of the plant-bearing series as 
in a similar thickness of deposits in the cretaceous group. To my mind, they 
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