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age.* * * § The Damudas again are closely connected with the Paneliet group 
by that very well marked fossil Schizoneura Gondwanensis, Fstm., which 
is so frequent in both, and which has its only relations in the European 
Trias. 
b. —Directly by fossils.—There are several forms which are common to both, or, at 
least, which are represented in both. 
There are amongst the Tceniopteridece two forms which are very near to some from 
the Bajmahal Hills, Mtcrotceniopteris danceoid.es f being very near to 
Maerot. lata, 0. M., var. muscefolia; both occur very frequent; and some 
other specimens from Ivamthi being near, if not identical with Angiopteridium 
McClellandi, 0. M., from the Bajmahal Hills. (This we find in Sir 
Charles Bunbury’s paperj as Tceniopt. daneeoides ? McClell.) Both these 
Tceniopteris are found together with the common Glossoptcris, 
Amongst the Becopterides there is Alethopteris Zindleyana, Royle, and another 
form, lately brought by Mr. Wood-Mason from Eaniganj (see further on), 
which belong to the same group as the Alethopteris indica, O. M., from the 
Bajmahal Hills; it is to the mesozoie group of Alethopteris Whitby ensis 
Gopp. 
Cycadeacece in the lower groups are also not wanting at all, siuce we know 
that there is a Nceggerathia Bislopi, Bunb., from several localities, a 
Nceggerathia Vosgesiaca, Broun, from the Godavari District, and a Glos- 
sozamites from the Karharbari coal-field. (For these species see further on), 
Of course it may be said again that these are genera of wide range, but yet the species are 
distinct, so is the Macrotceniopteris lata and danaoides well distinct from Taniopt, 
obn.orm.is or German or mullinervis in. the Carboniferous; also Alethopt. Whithyensis and 
Zindleyana from Alethopt. Serli or pteroides in the Carboniferous; and Nceggerathia 
Bislopi and Vosgesictea from Nceggerathia foliosa, Stbg., from the coal-measures. 
There are, moreover, all the other mesozoie relations, as Phyllotheea, Actinopteris, 
Sagenopteris, &c., which are represented in Jura and Bhretic, or in the middle mesozoie 
epoch of Europe, to which latter the upper portion of our Gondwanas is to be referred. 
b —The affinities of our Ztamuda flora with that of the mesozoie and especially 
triassie epoch. 
The first critical discussion of the Damuda flora was given, 1861, by Mr. 01dham§ and 
later again, 1865, || where it was endeavoured to be shown that it had a pakeozoic affinity, 
although Mr. Oldham himself acknowledged the exclusively triassie connection of the so 
* Messrs. Oldlmm and W. T. Ttoford have stated this too. Mr. Blanford (Mem. Ill, p. 133, Eaniganj field) 
says plainly “ that the Paneliet Series represents a period of time intermediate between that of the other two groups 
(Damuda and Bajmahal ”), and Mr. Oldham (1. c., p. 204) says- 
“ The marked break between the Bajmahal and the Damuda rocks, as proved by the total change in their 
flora, has now, to a certain extent, been tilled up by the establishment of the Fanchet group or sub-division interme « 
diale between the two 
t Known already by Royle and McClelland , later brought from Burgo , Baniganj, and lately again from 
Baniganj. 
J Quart. Journ. Geolog. Soc., XVII : Flora of Nagpur. 
§ Memoirs, Geological Survey, India, Vol. II, p. 324 et seq. 
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