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J).—Pecopteris ( cyatheides ) tenera, Fstm. A small fragment of a pinna I place here, 
but it is of no special importance. 
Locality: the same. 
3. Order, Neuropterides. 
It is with Mr. Schimper that I agree in placing the following genus and species in 
this order, while by other authors it has been assigned to a quite different order. To 
discuss this point here would be out of place. The genus is Pachypteris, Bgt., which 
I take in Brongniart’s sense, and unite with it some Sphenopteris and Neuropteris of 
Phillips, Dichopteris of Zigno, and Scleropteris, ex. p. Saporta. It is of Jurassic age. 
a.—Pachypteris specified, Pstm. There is no doubt that the specimen I have so 
named belongs to the same genus as Brongniart described. It is very near Brongniart s 
species of Pachypteris, also to Dichopteris visianica, Zigno. 
These species, with which ours agree, are lower Oolitic (Scarborough and Italy). 
Locality Bhoojooree, in a soft reddish clay. 
h.—Pachypteris hr cripinuo.tct. This form, which I believe to be the same genus, 
I so name on account of its shorter pinnae. Locality.—Kukurbit. 
4. —Order, Cyclopterides. 
Genus, ActinopAeris. 
Some peculiar, orbicular, and radially striated forms from Bayreuth M. Goppert, 
described first as Cyclopt. peltata, Gopp., and we find this locality mentioned as Keuper. 
But later, from the researches of M. Schenk, these localities near Bayreuth (Culmbacb, 
Yeithlahm) are determined as belonging to the interposed strata (between Keuper and 
Lias) called Ithcet ic. This species, too, was independently changed into Actinopterispeltata, 
Schnk. I have now found this form in the Kaeh series. There are three specimens quite 
agreeing with all the drawings; so I am, no doubt, correct in the identification, although 
I am still quite unable to say anything distinct about the nature of these fossils. Prof. 
Schimper regards them as pseudo-fossils, formed by infiltration; but on this supposition 
their constant form and limited occurrence in the Juro-triassic epoch, most near the 
division boundary, would be inexplicable. 
Locality : Near Gooneri; in gray, sandy clay, as at Kukurbit. If I do not accept 
this locality to be Rhcetic, I must at least accept this fossil as an indication of a lower 
horizon than has as yet been assigned to these plant beds. 
B.—CoTYLEDONES PHANEROGAMS. 
I.— Cycadece. 
This family, which was in India generally very abundant in the floras of Jurassic 
times, has the most representatives also in the Kach series, We will, however, see that 
the representation here is in a different manner than in the Rajmahal beds; and this is 
another point of difference between these series, which were formerly thought identical. 
1.—Genus Ptilophyllum, Morr. 
I take this name of Morris, and not the later Palwozamia, Endl., because our genus 
is indeed quite different from all others, and therefore also from Palceozamia, as Schimper 
and Saporta have also lately shown. 
This Ptilophyllum is a truly Indian type, forming the only link between some Indian 
local floras ; and we can ascertain independently that the Ptilophyllum (Pal&ozamia) 
bearing beds are all of Jurassic (lower) age.* 
It may be well to note that 1 use the classification making the Jurassic to include Lias. 
