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c. —The Danruda Sphenophyllum ( Ti'izygia ) proves quite different in habit from those 
of the carboniferous period. 
d. —The discovery of Voltzia and Neuropteris with single pinnae (triassic forms) in the 
Barakars is very important. 
e. —In the Barakars there are forms of a genus allied to Glossopteris ( Gangamop - 
teris from the upper portion of the Australian coal-strata), which is almost the only fossil 
found in the Talchirs; by it these latter are connected with the former. 
Having established these general views, I proceed to discuss the fossil plants, which 
afford additional evidence in favor of my opinions. I can, of course, only describe the most 
important fossils. A thorough discussion of all the plant remains will be given in the 
Palmontologia Indica. 
A.—EQ UISETA GEM. 
These are very abundant, and one genus is especially important, as bringing the 
Damiidas into relation with the Panchets, and showing that both belong to the same 
epoch as a European formation, in which the same genus is well known. This genus is— 
a. — Schizoneuea, Sc/iimp. & Moug. 
This genus is especially abundant in the upper portion of the Damudas. It is 
found of different sizes, and in various states of development, but everywhere there is only 
one kind of leaves (spathes), and everywhere they have the same characters. They are very 
near to those of Schixoneura paradoxa, Schimp. & Moug., which they resemble iu the 
mode of connection of the leaflets in two parts of the spathe. Only one specimen is 
known in which the separation of the leaflets is nearly complete, and this specimen closelv 
resembles Schimper’s figure, Pal. Vegetale, PI. XIII, fig. 8. I have no doubt that this 
specimen belongs to the same species as the others. As I consider that the Schixoneura. 
of the Panchets is the same as that in the Damu das, I will use the same name for 
both— 
Scliizoneura Gondwanensis, Fstm. 
Diagnosis: 
Caule articidato, striato, variabili altitudi.ne ac latitudvne; foliis (foliolis) 12—22; 
plerumque in duaspartes vaginae coalitis; nonnunquam etiam liberis, suberectis, foliolis 
in duas partes connexis, folia oblongo-ovalia exhibentibus; usque ad 14'5 centm. lontjis, 
et media parte 2'5 centm. latis, 7—11 nervos continentibus. 
This diagnosis of this species is, of course, the same for the form from the Panchet 
group : the habit and the characters are identical in both, only the Panchet forms are 
in general a little smaller. 
As the only difference from the Vosges species S. paradoxa, Schimp. and Moug., is in 
the number of the leaflets, I consider that the two forms are nearly allied, and I look upon 
our species also as Triassic (Bunter-Sandstein). The fossils described as Zeuqopliy Hites, 
Brgt., from India by Brongniart (Prodrome 121-175) and subsequently by Strzeeeki (Phys. 
descr. of New South Wales, &c.) seem to belong also to Schixoneura, as well as the fossil 
described by Mc’CLelland (1. c. PL XIV, fig. 4), as Zamia Burdwancnsis, Mc’Cl.; there is, 
however, as far as I know the literature, nothing like Schixoneura anywhere mentioned as 
occurring in the lower coal-strata of Australia. 
