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To show these grooves in the lower portion of the scars I have added in fig. 2 the 
view of one scar, which exhibits them very distinctly in form and disposition. They 
are especially well seen in the scars of the lower portion of the stem, where a little of the 
stem-substance is preserved. 
Regarding the living affinities, we find that our specimen is next related to Cyathea 
compta (see Brongniart, Hist. d. vdget. foss., PL 42, f. 1), where the diseal portion equally is 
surrounded (limited) by closely set vascular marks as in our fossil form; also in the inner 
surface of the discal portion seems to be a similar disposition of the marks. The only differ¬ 
ence would be that the scars in our specimen are not so distant, and that the marks in the 
lower portions of the scars are much more numerous in our fossil. 
In Hooker’s Species Mlicufn, p. 42, I found, however, the Cyathea compta, Mart, 
described as AlsopMla compta. 
Amongst the fossil forms, the next relation of our fossil is with Protocyathea Ungeri 
(Caulopteris cyatheoides, Ung.), which is apparently also a Cyathea, and Prof. Unger himself 
has compared it with Cyathea compta and Cyath. vestita. I have only to refer to his 
paper (1. c.). 
Our species is therefore to be added as a sixth form of tree-fern from cretaceous rocks 
in the table given above. 
Explanation of Plate. 
Pig. 1. The stem in natural size. 
Fig. 2. One scar specially figured to show the stigmata in the lower portion. 
XV.— Notes on the Karharbabi Fioea. 
In two previous papers in the Records (Vol. IX, 3, 4) I had mentioned several fossil 
plants from Karharbari, which were brought to our knowledge by Mr. Whitty, Superintend¬ 
ent, Karharbari Collieries, East Indian Railway. This year I had an opportunity of visiting 
the coal-field myself and of collecting fossils, in which I was very much assisted by Mr. 
Whitty’s knowledge of the ground. The flora yielded the interesting fact that it is more related 
to that of the Talchir shales than is the coal flora, in any other field (at least as far as 
brought to notice at present, except the plants from the Mohpani coal-field). This relation is 
also supported by the stratigraphy, both series in this field having the same dip, and being 
apparently in conformable sequence. 
The Talchir flora, as known at present, is very poor, but all species of the real Talchir 
shale were found again in the Karharbari coal strata. The other character of the flora is 
as will be seen, to a great extent triassic, very many forms being like those which European 
geologists are used to call triassic. 
I know at present fossil plants from seven localities in this comparatively small coal-field, 
and it is to be expected that others will be found. 
The localities are— 
1. Puriadi, yielded ten species and four varieties of one species. 
2. Chunika, containing one species. 
3. Domahani, with five species and two varieties of one. 
4. Passarabhia, with six species. 
5. Mdthddi, with two species. 
9. Jogitand, with four species and two varieties. 
7. Komaljore Hill. 
