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Paht 3.] Foote : Representatives of the Gomhvana Series, ^'c. 
Vernavaram and Budavada severally, which I give below, the respective floras 
may be compared roughly. 
A few facts concerning the distribution of the leading plants which the mere 
lists do not show may be pointed out in conclusion of my notes. Dictyozamites 
is a genus very rarely found in the Ootatoor group of bed.s; it is rather more fre¬ 
quently met with in the Sripermatur area, but by no moans a common plant 
there; at Vcmavaram, on the contraiy, it is one of the most numerous, and 
shows considerable varieties of form and size. Angiopterklmm spathalatnm is 
very common at Terany, and occurs in most of the other Ootatoor localities; it is 
rather uncommon in the Sripermatur area and one of the rarest forms seen at 
Vemavaram. The foian most peculiar to the Si’ijiormatur group, where it occurs 
frequently, is one I tahe to be a Conifer hitherto undescribed. This form, which 
has some resemblance in the arrangements of the leaflets on the stalk to Taxites 
tenerrimus, Feistmantel, figured in the Flora of the Jabalpur Group, but gi’catly 
exceeds that species in size, is very rare at Vemavaram, and was not fonnd at all 
in any beds of the Ootatoor area. Tjcldnostrohus riijmahalensis is numerously 
and remarkably well developed at Vemdvaram; it is rare in the Sripermatur 
area, and absent from the Ootatoor plant beds. Similarly the genus Ptero- 
ptnjllum is much better represented both in number of species and specimens at 
Vemavaram, than either at Sripermatur or in the Ootatoor area. 
Dr. Feistmantel considers the Sripermatur group and Trichinopoly or Oota¬ 
toor plant beds as equivalents of Mr. King’s Ragavapuram beds (Godavari 
district), a view in which I am quite prepared to agree with him. As already 
mentioned with reference to my Vemavaram crustacean, which he described as 
Eryon Comp. Barrovensis, he has, owing to some irnfortunate confusion of the 
collections, looked upon the Sripermatur and Vemavaram fossils as both coming 
from the vicinity of Madras, though in reality belonging to localities more than 
200 miles apart. When he comes to separate them, I quite expect he will see the 
necessity of looking upon the Vemavaram beds as rather older than both the 
Sripermatur and Ootatoor plant beds. 
The following lists give the fossils collected by me from the several patches 
of the Ootatoor plant beds; their determination is of course only preliminary, 
the final one having yet to be made by Dr. Feistmantel at the Museum in 
Calcutta, where they can be compared with the type specimens of all the Upper 
Gondwana floras at present known. The several localities arc anunged in their 
geographical sequence from south to north. In drawing up and coiTecting these 
lists, I have of course availed myself as much as possible of Dr. Feistmantel’s very 
valuable monographs. 
1. Naicoium. 
Ptilo'pliyllwm acutifolium, 
Otozamites ahhrematus ? 
Branching leaf-like stalk. 
Grass-like branching (dichotomous) leaflets, very delicate. 
Stalk with central groove. 
