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Another form I call Palissyapeclinea, Fstm., Fstm. XLY. which is very frequent; it has 
lately been found also in other places, which I take to belong to the Rajmahal series. MM. 
Oldham and Morris have figured the first as Toxodites indicus, and the second as Cunning- 
hamites confertus. 
2. Cheirolepis, Schimp. 
Some very tender-leaved branchlets, first described as Araucarites gracilis, n. sp., 0. M. 
PI. XXXIII, XXXY. and which have a Lycopodites-VAse aspect, must, I believe, be placed 
in this genus. I name them Cheirolepis indica, Fstm. I may at once mention that no 
Lyeopodites is known higher than in the Permian ; all lycopodites-like plants in the 
newer strata being coniferous plants. 
3. Ecliinoslrobus, Schimp. 
I have already said in the preceding note on the Each flora, that some species of the 
genus Thuytes, Ung. (which have been sometimes also called Arthrotaxites, Ung. and others), 
have been shown by Prof. Schimper to be Fehinostrolus, Schimp. In the Rajmahal series 
there occur some branches which must he so placed. 
JEchinostrobus Rajmahalensis, Fstm. 0. M. PI. XXXII. 8. Fstm. XLV.: I call by this 
name some branches resembling the now disused species, Baliostichus ornatus, Stbg., 
Arthrotaxites Baliostichus, Ung., and Arthrotaxites Frischmanum, Ung., hut which three 
form, as 1 think, only .one species. Our Rajmahal specimens are, however, a little different. 
Such is the flora of the Rajmahal series in the original area, so far as now determined. 
I estimate the whole number of good species as about fifty. The description of the flora of 
this series, as the continuation and conclusion of the valuable work of MM. Oldham and 
Morris, illustrated by eleven additional plates, will, I hope, he published as soon as possible 
after the Flora of Each, now in the press. 
In taking a general view of the Flm - a of the Rajmahal series in the Rajmahal hills, 
we may point out the following plants as the most important forms 
ls£.—As characteristic of tiro formation:— 
a. —Alethopteris indica, Oldh. and Morr. 
b. —Asplenites macrocarpus, Oldh. and Morr. 
c. —Gleichenites ( Cyatheides) Bindralmnensis, Schimp. 
d. ~ Some species of Taniopteris, Bgt.. 
e. —The frequent occurrence of the genus Pterophyllum, Bgt. 
f. —Dictyozamites indicus, Fstm. 
g. —Palissya pectinea, Fstm. 
2 nd .—For determination of the age:— 
a. — Fquisetum Bajmahalense, Schimp. 
b. — Alethopteris indica, Oldh. and Morr. 
c. —Asplenites macrocarpus, Oldh. and Morr. 
d. —Thinnfeldia indica, Fstm. 
e. —Macrotmniopteris lata, Schimp. 
f—Angiopteridium Mcclellandi, Schimp. 
.'/•—The frequent occurrence of Pterophyllum, especially Pt. princeps, Oldh. 
h. —.Otozamites brevifolius, Br. (Otoz. Bengalensis, Schimp). 
i. —The true Cycadites, Bgt., and Palissya Oldhami, Fstm. (near Palissya 
Braiini, Endl.) 
