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PART L] Fast mantel : Flotes on Fossil Plants from Katlpvar, ^'c. 
to represent the 'top portion, as the veins only approach each other without being 
dichotomous. 
An identification of a fragment like this is always more or less uncertain, but 
in this case I think we can refer the fragment to Podozamites lanceolatus var. 
eichwaldi; Heer.‘ 
This, although very unsatisfactory palseontological evidence, would so far 
show that these jfiant-beds of Shekh Budin have to bo considered as representa¬ 
tives of the Gondwanas in the Upper Punjab in association with marine beds—a. 
case like that in Kach, and on the south-east coast of India. 
3. Lower Go^jdwana plants prom the Auranga coal-field. 
Mr. C. L. Griesbach, on his way to the Tatapani and Ramkola coal-fields in 
Sirgujah, passed through the Auranga coal-field and collected a few fossils from 
a spot west of Murup, in bods mapjied by Mr. Ball ^ as Barakars. Although T 
could only determine two specie.s, I think them interesting enough for record. 
Trizygia speeiosa, Hoyle.—The occuri’ence of this fossil in this coal-field is of 
interest, as illustrating the geographical and stratigraphical distribution of the 
species. It was first made known from the Barakars of the Talchir coal-field, 
where it docs not seem to be rare. Subsequently it was found to occur rather 
numei'ously in the Rauiganj group of the liauiganj coal-field. This Raniganj 
form appeals in general a little larger than that from the Barakars. Later on 
the same species was brought from the Barakai’s of the Bokharo coal-field by 
Mr. Hughes; and it is also known from the Bijori horizon (representing the 
Raniganj group) of the Satpura basin, in the upper Denwa valley; and now we 
know of it in the Auranga coal-field from the Barakar group. This species is 
thus almost equally numerous in the Barakar as in the Raniganj group. 
There is no essential distinction between the Raniganj and Barakar forms, 
both show the characteristic “ three paired ” arrangement of the leaflets, the 
same distribution of the veins, etc. The only difference I could find is that 
already mentioned, between the forms from the Raniganj coal-field (Raniguuj 
group) and Talchir coal-field (Barakar group) ; but the specimens from the 
Auranga coal-field (Barakar group) exhibit a size like that of the Raniganj form, 
so that even this character cannot be used as distinguisliing the forms from these 
two groups, and both mu,st be declared identical. 
Olossopteris covimunis, Fstm.—This species is equally frequent through all the 
sub-divisions of the Lower Gondwanas. 
4. Fossil plants proai the Tatapani and Ramkola coal-fields (Sirgujah). 
Last year (1878) a good collection of fossil plants was brought by Mr. C. L. 
Griesbach fi’om the Tatapani and Ramkola coal-fields. The fossils are from 
various localities and from various horizons. Mr. Griesbach, in his forthcoming 
report on the geology of those coal-fields, indicates the positions of the fossils in 
^ Juraflora Ost-Sibiriens unci des Auinrlandes, 1877, Vol. IV, p. 1C9, PI. XXVI. 
2 V. Ball: Geology of the Auranga and HutAv coal-field (Piilainow). Mem. Geol. Surv. of 
India, Vol. XV, Ft. 1. 
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