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here. I would only state the fact: in the Rajmahal flora 1 will give the description and 
figure. It increases again the number of forms in the Rajmahal flora, related with 
similar in the rhsetio formation. The specimen is from Bindrabun, 
B.—Descriptions of new and other species from the lower portion of the Gondwanas. 
In my first paper I have enumerated only the most known species, but as I have 
been obliged to refer in the preceding pages to all the forms of the Damudas, I feel the 
necessity of describing or discussing shortly these fossils now. 
1 .—The Damuda Phyllotheca connected with, the Australian forms and also with that 
from Oolite in Italy. 
Since writing my preliminary paper on the Damuda fossils* I have come across some 
better specimens of a real Phyllotheca from the Kamthi beds, and also one specimen from 
the Raniganj coal-field. 
Sir C. Banbury called this Indian Phyllotheca Ph. Indica ;+ but it is related to the 
Phyll. from the upper coal-fields in Australia, % I mean the beds above the first marine 
fauna; and both are related with the Phyllotheca of M. de Zigno§ in the Italian Oolite. 
Nothing like this is known in the Permian. This and the coal epoch have their 
own equisetaceous plants. The Permian epoch has been rather poor in equisetaceous plants, 
while it is known that the Trias period produced them again very abundantly ; in this 
also our Damuda series agree with the Trias. 
The occurrence of the same real Phyllotheca (Ph. Indica, Bunb.) has not till now been 
mentioned anywhere from the Raniganj coal-field; lately I discovered one specimen of 
this species. 
The great abundance of equisetaceous plants in the Damudas, with prevailing 
Schizoneura, a triassic genus, and with occurrence of the real Phyllotheca, so frequent in 
the Italian Oolite, would therefore again indicate rather a mesozoic (triassic) age. 
The same Phyllotheca Australis, McCoy, is also known from Victoria together with 
Taniopteris Daintreei, McCoy, which latter in Queensland is considered as characteristic 
of the mesozoic (upper) coal beds.|| 
2 ._ Tceniopterides of the Damudas and their connexions.* * § ^ 
In my preliminary paper, mentioned above, I have already called attention to some 
distinct forms of Itsniopleris, Bgt., which should indicate a connection between the 
Damudas and the Rajmahal Series. Since that time I have examined some other 
specimens, which prove this connection still more, which I will discuss now.** 
a.—That species which Sir C. Banbury figured 1. c. PI. X, f. 2, with the name Tceniop• 
teris Danceoidea (?) MeClell., is not, I think, correctly placed. I have got some other speci¬ 
mens identical with this figure, but they are no Teeniopt. daneeoidesW (McCiell. Hoyle.) 
* Records Geol. Surv. Tnd., 1876, N. 3, p. 63 ff. 
t Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., XVII , ti. 335, Pis. X and XI. 
J McCoy : Annals of Nat. Hist., Vol- 20, p. 152 f. 
§ Zigno : Flor. foss. form. Oolith., Pis. VII, VIII. 
|| uaintree (and Carrutliers) on the Geology of Queensland. Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc., 1872. 
« g ee further ou the note on Mr. Wood-Mason's fossils. 
Mr. Hughes assured me several times that he brought some nice specimens of Taniopterisdanxoidei, McCiell,, 
from Jtaniganj, but I never could find them in our collections. 
ff Ruylt : lllustr. Bot. and oth. Nat. Hist. Him. Mount., Tab. 2 : McClelland : Report, 1818-49, Tab. 15. 
