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right angles to the midrib. The secondary veins and their divisions all 

 reach to very near the borders, even seem to reach them, anastomosing at 

 their ends with a veinlet which follows close to the margins in successive 

 short curves like a marginal vein. The nervilles are strong, more or less 

 at right angles to the nerves, not continuous, anastomosing in the middle 

 of the areas, composing a net of large irregular quadrangular or polygonal 

 meshes. The surface of these leaves is rough, the venation deep and dis- 

 tinct, the substance thick, nearly coriaceous; the short petiole (7 milli- 

 meters long) is enlarged at the base. 



Hob. — Near Fort Harker. Chs. Sternberg. 



AMPELIDE^E. 



CISSITES, Heer. 



Leaves more or less deeply trilobate by the extension of the lateral primary 

 nerves always in three, rounded and broadly cuneate to the base ; lobes deltoid or 

 round, entire or dentate, sometimes lobed ; secondary nerves mostly camptodrome. 



Under the name of Cissites insignis, and without definition of the genus, 

 Professor Heer has described a fragment of leaf which has apparently a 

 degree of affinity to those which I place under this generic division. The 

 leaves are closely allied to Araliopsis by the primary nervation always 

 being trifid generally from a distance above the basal borders, and by the 

 areolation and the more or less distinctly trilobate division. The second- 

 ary veins are generally camptodrome. 



Cissites insignis, Heer. 



"Phyll. Cret. du Neb.," p. 19, pi. ii, figs. 3 (4 restored). 



Leaves coriaceous, palm; tely deeply trilobate; lateral lobes very unequal, lobes 

 crenate at the apex. 



This leaf is very coriaceous, triple-nerved, deeply palmately trilobate. 



The lower part of the lower lobe is larger than the upper, which is entire 



and bears three obtuse teeth toward the base; the secondary veins are 



thin, anastomosing in curves at a distance from the borders. 



Cissites salisburisefolius, sp. nov. 



Sassafras obtusum, Lesqx., " U. S. Geol. Rep.," vi,p. 81, pi xiii, figs. 2, 4. 

 Pcpulites salisburicrfolins, Lesqx., "Am. Jour, of Sci. and Arts," xlvi, 1868, p. 94. 



These leaves, first described as Pojndites, then as Sassafras or Arali- 



