part 2.] Feislmaniel: Fossil Floras in India. 69 
Gleichenites Bindbabujjensis, Schimp. 
There are some specimens of a fern which at once recall the species from the Rajmehal 
hills described, hy M.M. Oldham and Morris as Pecopteris (Gleichenites) Gleichenoides. 
Mr. Schimper considered it, however, to belong to Gleichenia, and has described it as Gleiche- 
nia Bindrabunensis, Scbimp. This I believe to be correct, and I therefore adopt his name 
for the species. 
The above species of ferns have already been recognised as characteristic of the Raj¬ 
mehal group. I do not doubt that they here indicate the same group. 
As appendix to the ferns I may mention the occurrence of the genus Phizomopteris, 
i. e., Rhizomes of ferns, which I describe especially further on. 
Cycadeaceje. 
Cycadites confertus, Morr. A single leaflet establishes the species; it agrees completely 
with PL VIII, fig. 2, in Oldham and Morris’ Rajmehal Flora. As I think, the Cycadites 
Blanfordianus. Oldh., is to be placed to this species. 
CONIFERiE. 
A branch, pretty well preserved, belongs no doubt to that species which was, for the 
first time, found in the Rajmehal bills aud figured, but not described, in the Rajmehal Flora, 
(PI. XXXIII) under the title Taxodites indicus, 0. and M. 
Subsequently Mr. Oldham himself admitted that this fossil belongs to the genus 
Palissya. I also have recognised it as such, and moreover proved it to belong there. The 
same form has been found also in the Jabalpur group of the Satpura basin. I have also 
identified it from Golapilly and Kaeli (Cutcli). When describing it in my papers on the 
Kacb (Cutcb) and Rajmehal floras and giving the diagnosis, I thought it best, on transferring 
it to the genus Palissya, to call the species after Dr. Oldham, viz., Palissya Oldhami, Fstm. 
I also published the same name in my notes on some fossil floras from India (Rec. 1877, 
PI. II). This I thought to be justified by the fact that the species has never been described. 
My intention to thus change the name has, however, been objected to; so that to avoid any 
misunderstanding I have decided to use for this conifer form from the Rajmehal bills, 
Satpura, Each, and Golapilly the former species name— indica. It will therefore stand as 
Palissya indica, Fstm., to which species also belongs our plant from Atgarh. 
The specimen from Atgarh is a single brancklet, but quite distinct, the midribs in the 
leaflets being visible. 
Genus: Rhizomopteeis, Schimper, 1869. 
Schimper: Pal. vegetale, Vol. I, p. 699. 
Nathorst, 1876,* page 14, PI. I, figs. 8-13. 
Rhizomes of ferns, either underground or superficial, distinct by their repeated ramifica¬ 
tion. They show the scars of the fallen-ofE peduncles, or contain the remains of the 
petioles, often covered with pile. 
Schimper established this genus from two forms from the carboniferous formation. 
Lately, Mr. Nathorst described one species from the Rhsetic of Sweden,* Phizomopteris 
Sclienki from Palsjo (1. c. p. 14, PI. I, figs. 8-13). 
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* Nathorst: Bidrag Till Severiges fossila flora, Stockholm, 1876. 
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