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ami the English Oolitic flora. Witli the Rajmalial series, as we will see, the Each beds 
have only about three or four species in common, while, moreover, there is a great difference 
in the most characteristic forms. 
The localities here mentioned are (taking the supposed oldest first):— 
1. —Near Gooneri, with Actinopteris (Sehenk)-like forms; gray sandy clay. 
2 . —Thrombow, with Palissya , like the same from the Eajmahal series and the 
Jabalpur group; in the same gray sandy clay. 
These two indicate a lower age, and perhaps represent the Eajmahal series in Kach. 
3 . —Kukurbit, with most of the characteristic types: Oleandridium, Otozamites, 
Cycadites, Palissya, Pachyphyttum, Pchinostrobus (Thuytes), fossil scales, all with 
oolitic species ; in gray sandy clay. 
4 . —Bhoojooree, with Pachypteris specified; in a reddish soft clay. 
5 . —Doodaee, with Alethopteris Whitlyensis, Gopp.; in a reddish-gray soft clay. 
These three, it can scarcely be doubted, are of lower oolitic age. 
6 . Loharia, with Otozamites imbrioatus, Bstm.; in a ferruginous sandstone. 
All of these can be determined with more or less accuracy as lower Oolitic, excepting 
Loharia, which is not so distinct. But generally a lower oolitic age must be taken for 
them; only the two localities, Gooneri and Thrombow, indicate a lower horizon. 
As I have already mentioned, there seems to be a “ palceontological contradiction ’ 
between the evidence from the animal and from the plant remains. The latter occur in the upper 
groups of the local Jurassic series as described by Mr. Wynne, the marine fauna occurring 
in the lower groups. According to Dr. Waagen’s researches on the Ammonite fauna, this is 
not older than Bathonian; and yet the plants, which are from a higher horizon, indicate 
generally an age as old as the Bathonian or Bath-oolite, and some of them a still 
older horizon. 
Such are the palaeontological facts regarding which we can only say that plants of lower 
oolitic age still flourished in this region after that animals of younger strata had been living 
in the adjoining sea. It would seem, moreover, from the fact that Ptilopltyllum, Morr., 
and other species occur also in the Eajmahal series, that the flora of Kach, though generally 
oolitic, had an earlier existence in India than in the strata of England. 
II- —Eloka of the Eajmahal Seeies (in the Eajmahal Hills and 
Godaveei Disteict). 
The flora of the Eajmahal series in general, and especially that of these strata as 
typically seen in the Eajmahal hills, is more abundant than the Kach flora, both as 
regards the number of specimens as well as of genera and species. I will therefore first 
discuss shortly the flora as exhibited in this region, and having established the typical forms 
here, we can recognize them in other places. 
The fossil plant-remains of the Eajmahal series in the Eajmahal hills have formed 
already the object of a valuable work begun by Mr, Oldham and Prof. Morris, but of 
