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the evidence of reproductive organs. The pinnae of the recent South African 
cycad, Stangeria paradoxa, agree in venation characters and form with 
Tceniopteris and in a fossil state they could hardly be distinguished from fern 
fronds. 
As regards the Tceniopteris leaves from Victoria, the balance of evidence is 
in favour of regarding them as the simple fronds of a fern, but unfortunatelv 
no satisfactory fertile specimens have been found, and therefore the systematic 
position of the plant must remain unsettled. 
Tseniopteris Daintreei, McCoy. 
Figs. 18-22. 
1850. Tceniopteris spatulata, McClelland, Rep. Geol. Surv. India, p. 53. 
PI. XVI., Fig. 1. 
1860. Tceniopteris Daintreei , McCoy, Trans. Roy. Soc. Viet., vol. v., p. 97. 
1863. Stangerites spatulata, Oldham and Morris, Foss. Flor. Gond., p. 34, 
PI. VI., Figs. 1-6. 
S. spatulata, var. multinervis, ibid., p. 34, PI. VI., Fig. 7. 
1867. Tceniopteris spathulata, Schenk, Foss. Flor. Grenzsck, p. 101. 
1869. Angiopteridium spathulatum, Schimper, Trait. Pal. Veg., vol. I., 
p. 605. 
1874. Tceniopteris Daintreei, McCoy, Pal. Viet., p. 15, PI. XIV., Figs. 1 
and 2. 
1877. Angiopteridium spathulatum, Feistmantel, Foss. Flor. Gond. (77 1 ), 
p. 45. 
A. McClellandi, ibid., PI. XLVI., Fig. 6. 
1877. A. spathulatum, Feistmantel, Foss. Flor. Gond. (77 2 ), PI. I., Figs. 
6b, 7b. 
1878. Tceniopteris Daintreei, Etheridge, Cat. Austrl. Foss., p. 100. 
1879. A. spathulatum, Feistmantel, Foss. Flor. Gond., p. 10, PI. I., Figs. 
8-13, 17, 18; PI. II., Figs. 3, 5, 6; PI. XV., Fig. 11. 
A. McClellandi, ibid., PI. I., Figs. 14-16; PI. II., Fig. 4. 
1883. Tceniopteris Daintreei, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 
Wales, vol. VIII., p. 117. 
1887. Tceniopteris Daintreei, Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, p. 375. 
1889. T. Daintreei, Feistmantel, Geol.-Pal. Verlialt Slid Afrikas, PI. II., 
Fig. 11. 
1890. T. Daintreei, Feistmantel, Mem. Geol. Surv. New South Wales , 
p. 114, PI. XXVII., Figs. 4, 5 ; PI. XXVIII., Fig. 6. 
1892. T. Daintreei, Jack and Etheridge, Geol. Queensland, p. 371. 
T. Daintreei, Stirling’s Report, p. 12, PI. 2, Figs. 11 and 12. 
1898. T. spatulata, Shirley, Queensland Geol. Surv. Bull. No. 7, p. 23. 
1898. Angiopteridium spathulatum, Dun, Report Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science, 
Sydney, p. 390. 
1899. T. Daintreei, Stirling’s Report, p. 3, PI. 1, Fig. 2; PI. 2, Figs. 4, 7 ; 
PI. 2a. 
Frond simple linear, long and narrow, reaching a length of more than 
7cm., and varying in breadth from 1.5mm. to slightly more than 1cm. The 
apex is either gradually tapered to an acuminate tip or bluntly rounded ; 
towards the petiole the lamina becomes gradually narrower. Midrib stout and 
