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“ iron shales” and in the Raniganj group of the same coal-field excepting the Schizoneura, 
which occurs as well in the Panchet group. 
I determined from near Kumardhubi— 
EQUISETACE7E. 
1. Yhyllotheca indica, Bunb.—Stalks of equisetaceons plants determined with this 
name. 
2. Yertebraria indica, Royle.—Very frequent; good specimens. 
FERNS. 
3. Glossopteris communis, Fstm.—A form with a pointed leaf, with incurved veins 
forming very narrow meshes. Very common through the whole Damudas. 
4. Glossopteris with parallel, long and wide meshes. 
5. Glossopteris with straight veins, forming narrow meshes. 
6. Glossopteris with very wide and long meshes These will he described subsequently. 
7. Gangamopteris. —Some two or three fragments I suppose to belong to Gangamop- 
teris cyclopteroides, Fstm. 
8. Tceniopteris. —Two specimens, with narrow veins. 
9. A Fruit, which is not unlikely a eycadeous fossil. 
From the western part near Nirscba I determined— 
EQUISETACE7E. 
1. Yertebraria indica, Royle. 
FERNS. 
2. Glossopteris stenoneura, Fstm.—With very equal, long and very narrow meshes. 
Of these Yertebraria indica, Ptiyllotheca indica, and most of the Glossopteris species, 
occur also in the Raniganj group ; if we now add, that in the Barakar group of Talchir 
near Cuttack there is known Sphenophy! In m trizygia, Mig., Sphenopleris polymorfes (the 
same as in the Raniganj group), besides most of the Glossopteris species, there certainly 
remains almost only Schizoneura Gondwanenis, Fstm., as peculiar to the Raniganj group, 
while most of the other fossils it has in common with the Barakar group, and moreover all 
the fossils which have been found as yet in the Iron Shales are identical with the same, both 
in the Raniganj and Barakar groups. 
The close relation of the Raniganj group with the Panchet group (see further on) 
is unquestionable, by the continuation of the same Schizoneura Goniwanensis, Fstm.; so 
that all these circumstances shew distinctly rather a continuation of forms from one band 
to the other, than any distinct break or interruption of deposition and of life, and support, 
therefore, the view of a more uniform epoch of time. 
The Kurhurbalee coal strata of which I shall speak in a following number are certainly 
as old as the Barakar group in other districts, if not lower, as they are so closely connected 
with the Talchirs in stratigraphy and fossils ; and as the Kurhurbalee flora has most allies 
in Triassie times, the other strata can scarcely he older. 
