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XII.— Fossil plants from near Assensole (Raniganj group). 
Staying at Assensole, I visited the Nunia to see the Panchet group. In a north-west 
direction the stream traverses first some strata which were termed the Panchet group, where 
the Schizoneura Gondwanensis, Fstm., was collected. I failed to observe the slightest uncon¬ 
formity or difference between these strata and those in which the outcrop of coal with fossils 
of the Raniganj group occurs above the village Khumarpur; so that, here at least, the strati¬ 
graphy would admit of the relation I have suggested from the fossils. The coal seam out¬ 
cropping iu that part of the Nunia stream and the strata with it have quite the same dip as 
the overlying strata assigned to the Panchet group. Some strata above the outcrop are not to 
be distinguished from those of the Panchet group, and contain Glossopteris, so that I have 
no douot that this genus passes into the Panchet group. The respective specimens are in 
our collections. 
Below the coal-seam a thick band of fine-grained sandstone of yellowish color, full of 
Vertebraria indica, Royle, is lying. No other fossils were found in it. 
In the carbonaceous shale with the seam I collected— 
1. Vertebraria indica, Royle. 
2. Glossopteris, with wide meshes, like those I mentioned from the Barakar group. 
3. Glossopteris, with a round leaf, some of which I know from Raniganj. It will 
be described together with those from Raniganj. 
Completely the same Glossopteris with wide meshes I observed in the mines of the 
Beerbhoom Coal Company near Dadka. The seam is the same. It lies in the Nunia 
stream almost on the boundary marked on the map between the Raniganj and Panchet groups 
in that locality. It has exactly the same dip (south) as the overlying strata, the same rela¬ 
tions as have the Talchir strata, to the overlying coal strata in Kurhurbalee coal-field. 
In a southern direction from Assensole I followed the Nunia to beyond Beldanga. South¬ 
east of this place a seam crops out with a southern dip. As in the outcrop in the northern 
part of the Nunia, the shales were much decomposed by the influence of the water, so that 
with great difficulty only a few plants could be got out. It was especially a very thin 
stratum of shale above the coal which contained the fossils; I could determine the following 
species:— 
1. 7 ertebraria indica, Royle, is the common form. 
2. Phyllotheca indica, Bunb.—Some equisetaceous stalks. 
3. Glossopteris. Prevailing, a form with very narrow leaves, of which the veins, how¬ 
ever, were different from those in Glossopteris angustifolia, Bgt. I refer it to 
Glossopt. leptoneura,, Bunb., from Kamthi; again another species to connect the 
Raniganj and Kamthi groups as the same horizon. 
4. Gangamopteris—k species with a narow leaf, though different from Gangamopteris 
angustifolia, McCoy. I shall describe it hereafter ; it is from Beldanga. 
It is the second instance of this genus in the Raniganj field, which is so frequent in 
the Kurhurbalee field, and almost the only fossil in the Talchirs; in the latter two the species 
are identical. 
The localities of fossils mentioned above are new for us as such, but they shew again the 
same character of flora as we are accustomed to see in other localities in the Ranio-anj and 
Barakar groups. 
