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Carruthers' Queensland specimen of T. “ Daintreei ^ ( 7 \ spatulata , var. 
Carruthersi ) has 6-8 secondary veins in 5 mm. at the lateral margin. 
McClelland's figure of T. spatulata has about eight secondary veins in 
5 mm. Stirling’s “ T. Carruthersi' ’ (identified by McCoy) has nine second¬ 
ary veins in 5 mm. Seward s types of the variety major (measured on the 
actual figured specimens in the National Museum), have from J2-14 
secondary veins in 5 mm. The variety Daintreei figured by McCoy as the 
type of T. Daintreei, in the National Museum 1 shows 10-14 secondary 
veins in 5 mm. 
Mr. Seward’.s opinion that T . Carruthersi is probably distinct from the 
forms above-mentioned seems to be partially supported by the fact that 
the broad leaves from Gippsland have closer secondary veins than the 
majority of the Queensland specimens, as also have the Stormberg examples, 
which show from 5-7. The Tasmanian examples show from 6-7 secondary 
veins in 5 mm., as figured by Feistmantel. Occasional leaves are met with 
in Victoria, however, as described previously, which match the Queensland 
examples in this particular feature, and are linked to the extreme forms by 
the slightest gradations. 
The above view that T . spatulata is the type form, is supported in the- 
main by the conclusions of Messrs. W. S. Dun 2 and A. C. Seward 3 , 
although the former author then discarded T . Daintreei even as a varietal 
formwhilst Seward, although accepting T . spatulata as the species having 
priority over T. Daintreei , places T. spatulata in the synonymy of the 
former, retaining it as the species, evidently with a view to avoid dis¬ 
turbance of nomenclature. Arber, in his lately published catalogue of the 
Glossopteris Flora, 4 accepts T. spatulata , McClelland, as the type of the 
Indian, South African, and Australian Tceniopteris of the forms herein 
dealt with, although in the synonymy he queries the originally described 
type. McClelland’s figures and description appear, however, sufficiently 
clear to justify the acceptance of this species, especially since is has been 
subsequently referred to and illustrated from other Indian specimens by 
Oldham and Morris 5 , who, by the way, include varieties which, according 
to the figures, agree with Carruthersi and Daintreei. 
Brachyphyllum Gippslandicum, McCoy 
Brachyphyllum Gippslandicum , McCoy, 1900. In Stirling's Report 
No. 7, on Victorian Coalfields, PI. IF, Figs. 1, la-c, 2, 5, $a, and PI. 
III., Figs. 10-16. 
The form of the leaves in this species is roundly ovate as distinguished 
from B. (?) australe, Feistmantel 6 , in which theMeaves are rhomboid-oblong. 
They closely resemble the leaves of the Wealden species B. spinosum , 
Seward 7 . It is, however, to B. mamillare , Brongn., 8 that the present 
species bears most resemblance, though it does not branch so frequently. 
Several fragments, which may be referred to the above species, occur 
in the present collection. Figure 3, PI. XXXV., represents a portion of 
a stem showing the scale-like leaves. The genus does not appear to be 
common in the Victorian Jurassic series, so far as known. The previously 
recorded localities are Albert River, Burne’s Creek, and Jeetho River, all 
(1) The location of McCoy's type in the National Museum, Melbourne, is queried by Arber, Cat. Gloss 
Flora (Brit. Mus.), 1905, p 125. The specimen, however, is in the collection, and is so labelled. 
(2) Rep. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci , Sydney. 1898, p. 392 In the course of a recent conversation Mr Dun ex¬ 
pressed his concurrence in the views here brought forward, as to the advisability of keeping T. Daintreei 
as a varietal form of T. spatulata. 
(3) Records Geol. Surv , Viet., Vol. I., pt. 3, 1904, p. 169. 
(4) Op. supra cit. p. 124. 
(5) Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Ser. II.. Vol. 1., pt. 2, 1863, p. 34, pi. VI., figs. 1-7 (as Stangerites spatulata , 
McClelland sp.). 
(6) Palaiontographioa,'Suppl. III., 1878, pp. 97, 98, pi. VII., figs 3-6, pi. XVII. 
(7) Cat. Mesozoic Plants in the Brit, Mus..pt. II. Wealden Floia, 1895, p. 215, pi. XVII., figs. 1-6. 
(8) Prodrome, 1828, p. 109. Feistmantel, Palseontologia Indiea, ser. xi. vol. II. pt. II. p. 96 ;16), pi. x. fig_ 
12 ; pi. XI. figs. 2, 3 ; pi XII; pi. XIII. 
