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with ours as with that from the Italian Oolite, while in our Damuda flora all the other 
plants are mesozoie and most of them triassic. 
That the upper beds in Australia—Wianamatta, Hawkeshery—and the upper Newcastle 
coal-beds form a connected series is also shown by the occurrence of the same fish, which 
is not found in the lower strata. 
The following table may illustrate the relations :— 
Europe. 
Lower Gondwauas in India. 
Super 1 Upper Trias 
( Panchet group. 
(_ (Flora and Keptilia). 
Gres bigarr£ 1 T ™ . 
Bunt.-Sanst. \ Lower Trlas - 
f Damuda group, 
j Flora only. 
Coal-measures in Australia. 
a. Upper coal-measures. Alt the 
strata, as I enumerated | them 
above under 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 
Flora only. 
Carboniferous 
b. Lower coal-measures. 
Carboniferous 
Strata beloio. 
Devonian ? 
Goonoo-Qoonoo. 
VII.— Flora of the Jabalpub group in South Rewah, near Jabalpub, and in the 
Satpuba basin. 
The Jabalpur group, as indicated in a former note (ante, p. 29), is that upper portion of 
the Gondwana series covering a large area in South Rewah and also in the Satpuras, the two 
being almost continuously connected by a narrow outcrop skirting the intervening area of 
overlying trap, and passing through Jabalpur at the head of the Narbada valley. It derives 
its name from the place where its fossil plants were first and best known, i. e., Jabalpur. 
Although the stone in which the plants are preserved differs in each of the three 
positions just named, the fossils themselves do not, plainly showing that we have to deal 
with but one formation. These beds were formerly placed on a common horizon with those 
of Rajmahal and Each ; but, as I have already indicated, these must be separated into two 
groups, au older typified by the Rajmahal group (in the Rajmahal Hills and near Golapili, 
Godavari District), and a newer containing the Each series, to which the Jabalpur group 
belongs, the fossils of both being identical. 
The fact of the Each and the Jabalpur strata being placed with the Rajmahal group, 
which has long since been recognised as most probably Liassic, would, however, show that 
from the first the fossil plants of Each have not been considered of so young an age as has 
lately been interred from some of the associated marine fossils. When I examined the Each 
flora I was not acquainted with that of the Jabalpfir group; but although geographically 
intermediate between Each and Rajmahal, and thus presumably likely to exhibit a blending 
of the flora had there been any community of horizon, as was formerly supposed, the Jabal¬ 
pur flora is specifically the same as that of Each, and confirms the conclusions I had arrived 
at regarding the age of the rocks. Some recent discoveries in the Godavari region,* where 
Jabalpur plants have been found together with reptilian remains and liassic fishes, tend 
to support those conclusions, as opposed to the impression made from the Cephalopoda of the 
Each strata. 
* Hughes; supra] p. 80, 
