. Catalogue of the fossil plants of the Glossopteris flora in the Department of geology. Paleobotany -- Carboniferous; Paleobotany -- Catalogs and collections; Plants, Fossil -- Catalogs and collections. 26 PHYLLOTHECA. This species is very imperfectly known, only a few specimens having been obtained from Dudrajpur, in the Rajmahal Hills, the horizon of which is doubtfully assigned to the Raniganj group. The union of the leaves into a sheath, near their attachment to the node, is not very obvious in the figures given by Feistmantel. If this plant is correctly assigned to the genus Phyllotheca,
. Catalogue of the fossil plants of the Glossopteris flora in the Department of geology. Paleobotany -- Carboniferous; Paleobotany -- Catalogs and collections; Plants, Fossil -- Catalogs and collections. 26 PHYLLOTHECA. This species is very imperfectly known, only a few specimens having been obtained from Dudrajpur, in the Rajmahal Hills, the horizon of which is doubtfully assigned to the Raniganj group. The union of the leaves into a sheath, near their attachment to the node, is not very obvious in the figures given by Feistmantel. If this plant is correctly assigned to the genus Phyllotheca, the comparatively broad character of the free segments easily distinguishes it from the other Phyllothecas belonging to the Glossopteris flora. There is, however, a species occurring in Altai Coalfields described by Scbmalhausen 1 as Phyllotheca Stschuroivs/cii, which closely resembles the Indian plant, as. Fig. 8.—Phyllotheca robusta, Feist. After Feistniantel. Nat. size. Feistmantel2 and Zeiller3 have already pointed out. Schmalhausen's specimens, however, are too imperfect to justify a correlation. Known only from India. Not represented in the British Museum collection. 6. Phyllotheca Etheridgei, sp. nov. (Text-fig. 9.) 1895. Phyllotheca, sp., Etheridge, jun., Rec. Geol. Surv. New South "Wales, vol. iv, pt. 4, p. 148, pi. xvii, figs. 1-9 ; pi. xviii, fig. 3. 1902. Phyllotheca, sp., Zeiller, Pal. Indica, , vol. li, p. 31. Type. Australian Museum, Sydney. Leaf-bearing stems articulate, faintly ribbed longitudinally. Leaf-sheath large, narrow and clasping for about 3 mm. at the base, but expanding above into an open peltate disc with a diameter 1 Schmalhausen (79), p. 16, pi. iii, fig. lb; pi. iv, fig. lb ; pi. vi, figs. 2, 3. 2 Feistmantel (80), p. 69. 3 Zeiller (963), p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectl
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