PART 1.] Ft'istmantel: Notes on Fossil Phnits from Kntfi/war, ^r. 
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Filices. 
Group of Alethopteeis whitbiensis, Scliimp. (Feistm.) or Asplenium 
wniTBiENSE, Heer. 
There is oue pinna of a fern -which appai’ently belongs to this group of fossil 
plants, but it is one of the more slender forms, and is very closely related to 
the Jurassic Asplenium argutuhim, Heer,' which also is to be included in the 
group of Alethopteris ivhifbiensts. 
AletJwpterls whithiensis is known in India, especially from the Jabalpur and 
Umia groups; from the latter I have figured a specimen closely resembling that 
from Kattywar. 
Ctcadeacej!. 
There is only one small fragment, which, I think, belongs to the genus 
rtiloplnjllum; it indicates one of the narrow-leaved forms, to which belongs 
Ptil. var. minimum, Fstm. from Kach (Cutch) ; the same was also found in the 
Sripermatur group of the south-east coast of India. 
Coniperj: 
Representatives of this Order are pretty numerous, especially leaved branch- 
lets and seeds, although the former in no large specimens. The branchlets appear 
to me to belong to two species. 
Palissya jnhalpnrensis, Fstm. The spiecimens are a little smaller than the 
original form from the Jabalpur group. 
Tiixites teiherriinns, Fstm. Several specimens are certainly to be referred to 
this form of the Jabalpur group. 
The seeds are: 
Araunarifos culeliensis, Fstm. These are numerous, of various sizes. They are 
known from the Umia group, Jabalpur group, and Sripermatur group. 
Besides these coniferous plants, there are mrmerous fragments of long naiTow 
loaves, with a central vein in the better preserved specimens. My belief is, that 
they also are coniferee, and in this case they most probably belong to the genus 
Pinas, resembling vei-y much Pinus nordunskioldi, Heer.'' 
A comparison of these fossil plants show.s that they are related to the 
flora of the Jabalpur group by the jire.senco of Pnlissija julmlpurensis and 
Tiixites fenerrimus, Fstm; while Arancarites cutohensis, Fstm. is common to the florii 
of the Umia and Jabalpur groups. There is also a fern corresponding with a form 
from Katch and a fragmentary portion of a Ptilophyllum. Those, with the Arau- 
carites cutcJiensis, Fstm., would correlate this flora also with that of the Umia 
group in Kach, as was noticed in the Annual Report of the Geological Survev of 
India for 1878. 
' Juraflora Ost-Sil)iriens, 1876 (Flora fossllis arctica, Vol. IV, 1877), Taf. Ill, fig. 7. 
- Beitriige /.ar fossilen Flora Spitzbergens, Tafel. IX, figs 1-6 (Flora fossilis arctica, Vol. IV 
1877); Beitriige znr .Juraflora Ost-Sibiriciis und dcs Ainurliiiuics, Taf. IV, fig. 8c (the same 
A'oluine), and Tafel. XXII, p. 4, a b., XXVll, 9a XXVIII, fig. 4. 
