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frequent genus Schizoneura. Already, 1861, in a paper by Sir Charles Banbury* (p. 345), 
strong doubts are expressed as to this supposition, and the flora of Nagpur and Burdwan 
considered rather mesozoic. 
In the fifteen years which elapsed since that date, the collections have increased 
greatly, and we have in all the special collections unmistakable evidence for the supposition 
of M. Bunburv as to the mesozoic, and, as I add, triassic age of the Dainuda flora. 
Already in the old collections from Raniganj there were proofs enough. There were 
Schizoneura very frequent, there were one or two Sagenopteris, Presh, Glossopteris, different 
from those in Australia. Prom Kaiuthi there were specimens of Tceniopteris (Macroheniop- 
teris and Angiopteridivm), of distinct real Phyllotheca, like that in the Oolites in Italy; 
there were again a quite different Glossopteris from those in Australia, different uot only 
by the shape of the leaf, but especially by the fructification. 
In 1871 some fossils with mesozoic and also triassic affinities were brought by 
Dr. Stoliczka from Karharbari, amongst which Yoltzia heterophylla and a Cyclopteris 
angustifolia, McCoy, were at that timo determined, and amongst which I have recognised a 
Sagenopteris and a distinct Glossozamites. 
Again in 1873 an Actinopteris was obtained from the Raniganj field, and a collection 
from the lower Godavari contained somo triassic affinities in Naiggerathia Yosgesiaca and 
mesozoic affinities in a Sagenopteris near rhoifolia, Presl. In the season 1873-74, Mr. V. Ball 
brought from the Satpura Basin the Triassic Schizoneura, which was there frequent 
enough. In 1876 we got some interesting species, which are of great importance as 
cumulative evidence for the triassic age of our Damudag, especially as they are just from 
the lowest portion, the Bar Altar group. These important fossils arc from Karharbari, 
and were presented by Mr. Whitty. They were Neuropteris valida, Fstm., Yoltzia Tietero- 
phylla, Bgt., Alhertia speciosa, nil triassic forms, and Gstigamopteris cyclopteroides, Fstm., 
which is identical with that almost only fossil of the Talchir group, aud whicli lias 
relations in the mesozoic beds in Victoria. 
Lately, too, I discovered a real Phyllotheca, as that from the Oolites in Italy, amongst 
the Raniganj fossils. And quite recently Mr. Wood-Mason brought a rather valuable suite 
of fossils from Raniganj containing further proofs of mesozoic age. I mention especially 
Vertebraria, Sagenopteris peduneulata, Fstm.,t Alethopt. Lindleyana, fructificans, 
another Alctliopteris of the group of Alethopteris Whitbyensis, and so on. 
To illustrate this relation of our Damuda flora with the mesozoic epoch in general and 
with the triassic epoch specially, I add have a full list of the fossils, as I know them at 
present; they are partly contained in my first note, and the description of others are 
contained in following note, No. VIII; others will be given in the Journal Asiatic Society, 
Bengal. 
PQ UISPTA GPJE 
1. Schizoneura Gondwanensis, Fstm.—Very frequent in the Raniganj group of 
the Raniganj field and in the corresponding Bijori horizon of the Satpura 
basin, also in the Panchet group. The only relation is the Thiassic Schizon. 
paradoxa, Scliimp.,J from the Vosges. Never known from Australia. 
* Quart. Jour. Geofog. Soe., XVII : Flora of bfagpdr. 
t This and other species of Mr. Wood-Mason's collection will be described in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
Bengal. 
t The genus Zengophyllites, Bgt., which has been eonfnsed with Schizoneura and of which wo find a figure in 
Strelecki’s New South Wales (p, 250, Pi. VI, f. 5), proves by a thorough examination to be a Zumitm of the genus 
Zamites or Podozamites, and quite different from Schizoneura .; So also Noygerathia (W, T. Blanford, 1. c,, p 83) is 
no Schizoneura. ' 
