PART 2.] 
Feistmantel: Fossil Floras of India. 
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All the plants enumerated in this 2nd list are of such a facies that they indicate 
at once a lower zone of the Jurassic period, and 1 have no hesitation in assigning to 
them a Liassic age. At first, these plants wore considered as oolitic. M. deZigno, in a 
written consideration, which is in my hands, dated 1861, and later in a paper, Sopra i deposit! 
di piante fossili dell’ America settentrionalle, delle Inde e del Australia, etc, Padova, 1865 
(of which there is a Report in Leonhard and Geinitz n. Jahrh. 1866, p. 381), regards 
them rather as Liassic. In the Vienna Jahrb, der Geolog. Reichsanst., 1861-62, 
Verhandl., p. 80, we find the Rajmahal fossils mentioned as agreeing with the Austrian 
Reaper plants. Mr. Ettingshausen, in his “ Farrenkrauter der Jetztwelt,” p. 22, re¬ 
marks of Tceniopt. lata and Taen. Morrisi quite distinctly: “ In formatione Lias dicta 
ad Bindrahun Bengali®.” We may therefore adopt, as the result of our special study 
confirming the opinions of the several authors, that these Rajmahal strata are to be 
taken as Liassic. 
Mr. Schimper, however, in Vol. Ill of his Palcontolog. veget., has put the greatest 
number of our Rajmahal fossils in the oolitic period ; while one of the same, Equisetum 
Eajmahalense, Schimp., occurring in the same strata with the others, he puts as Rhoetic, 
which, of course, is contradictory. This is still more remarkable when we find Mr. Schimper 
placing also the Glossopteris and Phyllotheca of the Damuda series in the Oolitic 
period. 
It remains now only to enumerate the localities of the fossil plants I have examined, 
or where they are said to occur. There are twelve localities known, in an alphabetical order, 
as below:— 
1, Amrapura; 2, Bindrabun ; 3, Burio ; 4, Busko Ghat; 5, Ghutiari; 6, Jamkoondih ; 
7, Murero ; 8, Muchwa Pass; 9, Onthea ; 10, Salempoor; 11, Shahabad; 12, Sooroojbera. 
The total number of species being taken as fifty, the number known from the several 
localities is as follows :— 
1-5, 2-32, 3-9, 4-5, 5-2, 6-2, 7-4, 8-2, 9-4, 10-1, 11-1,12-1. 
The greatest proportion is in No. 2, Bindrabun, with thirty-two species; the next is 
No. 3, Burio, with nine. 
Note on the age of the flora of some places in the Godavari District, especially of the 
sandstones of Kolapilli. 
In the Records of the Geological Survey, 1871 and 1872, Mr. W. T. Blanford has published 
a paper in t wo parts on some plant-bearing sandstones of the Godavari valley, and descriptions 
of others in the same district (Records, Vol. IV, p. 107, Vo). V, p. 23, Vol. IV, p. 49) 
All the places Mr. Blanford mentions, and from which he has got fossil plants, he has 
recognized as belonging to the Damuda series and to the Kamthi group (upper portion of 
Pamudas in general) on account of the occurrence of Glossopteris and Vertebraria in the 
characteristic forms for those beds. This is indeed so ; and our Museum contains several 
sets of fossil plants, from localities in the Godavari District (from the lower part of the river 
valley) which are at once to be recognized as plants of the Kamthi or Raniganj group. 
But we have got also from another locality, Kolapilli, near Ellore, discovered by 
Mr. King, a set of plants which certainly belong to another group and another age. 
The plants irom this locality are preserved in a very fine sandstone of a yellow-brown 
colour (ferruginous). They are pretty numerous, but do not l'epresent many species ; suffi¬ 
cient, however, to determine the age of the flora. The following systematical enumeration 
will enable us to compare these fossils with others already described and determined. 
