PART 4 .] 
Feistmantel: Fossil Floras in India. 
139 
4.— Some other species of Sagenopteris from the Damudas. 
The two species of Gangamopteris described above from the Damuda Series are 
distinctly belonging to that genus. But there are from the Damudas near Kunlacheru 
in the Godavari district two specimens, about which I am not quite sure whether they 
belong also to this genus or whether they are rather to be ranged with Sagenopteris, 
Bgt. They recall, it is true, somewhat Gangamopteris angustifolia, McCoy,* but I am 
not sure if this species too has not rather its place in Sagenopteris, Bgt. I for my part 
talce those specimens from Kunlacheru as very near to Sagenopteris rhoifolia, Presl., as 
there is scarcely any difference between them and the leaves of this species when they are 
detached. We have only to compare the detached leaf in Mr Schenk’s Grenzschichten, 
PI. XII, f. 4, with our specimens and we find no difference. 
Another locality of Sagenopteris, Pgt., is the Karharbari coal-field, the same where¬ 
from I enumerated already four species of mesozoic and triassic age. There is a collection of 
Karharbari plants in our Museum since the year 1871, and Dr. Stoliezka collected them. 
Fern leaves are very frequent, with an evidently anastomosing venation, which, however, 
does not pass out from a midrib; tbe shape and the association of the leaves on the rock 
urge us to consider the leaves as detached ones, which formerly have been attached to one 
common stalk. They are, as I suppose, evidently Sagenopteris, but differing in shape and 
size from those hitherto described. I describe them as follows :— 
Sagenopteris Stoliczkana, Fstm. 
Fronde digitaia ; foliis singulis pedicello eommuni inserlis, deciduis, lanceolate spa- 
thulatis, 10 cm, longu, 35 mm. latis, basi latiusculis, sine pedunculo distincto; later- 
alibus ut mdetur in forma different!,bus, nervo medio indistincto, nervis secundariis sub 
angulo acutissinio ad marginem eurrentibus repetito dichotomis, retia formantibus; 
retibus inferiore ac medio parte majoribus, marginem versus, minoribus. Fructificatione 
non obvia. 
The leaves of this species differ in shape and size as well from Sag. rhoifolia, Presl., 
as from Sag. Gbppertiana, Zign., but it is allied with both, being a Sagenopteris. 
I will not make any further discussions here—I will only say that the genus Sagenop¬ 
teris in Europe is known only in Bluetic and Lias, and that it has some connection with 
Cheropteris, Kurr., of the Keuper. 
Pei'kaps also some species of Glossopteris, Bgt., are allied: I mention, for instance, 
Glossopteris acaulis, MeClell., which should evidently be placed here, and I mentioned it 
already as Sagenopteris, Bgt. Tbe Tceniopteris, Bgt., with the real mesozoic aspect and 
with connections in the Bsijmahal Series would support the conclusions to be drawn from 
the occurrence of Sagenopteris, Bgt. 
Mr. W. T. Blanford is certainly right in saying that some of these ferns are of wide 
range; but if we consider it nearer it should be said of the most fossils; but I think also of 
widely ranged genera some species can be characteristic, and this is especially with the 
Tceniopteris the case, even so with Sagenopteris and others, and if some of those genera 
mentioned are of wide range, it is certainly the more the case with Glossopteris, so that 
there yet remain for the Damudas the other species as— 
Macrotceniopteris Danceoides, MeClell., certainly mesozoic, frequent. 
Schizoneitra Gondwanengis, Fstm. (very frequent.) 
Sagenopteris, two species—Binotic genus. 
Neuropteris valida, Fstm.—(frequent.) 
Volt zia acutfolia and Albertia speciosa, Schimp. 
* McCoy ; Prodrome of tile Pal. ol Viet., II Decade, PI. XIII, figs, 2, 2a. 
