NO. 1080. A FOSSIL FLOWER FROM THE EOCENE— BERRY. 263 



have submitted the specimen to various botanists famihar with the 

 flora of tropical America and compared it with a vast amount of recent 

 material and am satisfied that it represents an Eocene member of the 

 Combretacese, a family that was apparently well represented in the 

 early Eocene, since I have described (in manuscript) from contempo- 

 raneous deposits the leaves of two species of Combretum, two species 

 of Terminalia, one species of Conocarpus, and both the leaves and 

 fruit of a species of Laguncularia. These all serve in a measure to 

 substantiate one another and a certain amount of confirmatory evi- 

 dence is furnished by the petrified wood described by Felix from the 

 European Eocene as Combretacinium ^ and compared with the woods 

 of modern forms of Terminalia, Bucida, etc. 



Leaves of Terminalia and Combretum have also been described by 

 various authors from the European Tertiary, tending to show the 

 great similarity between the flora of Europe and that of southeastern 

 North America in Eocene times and the tropical American character 

 of European Eocene floras. 



Formation and locality .—Wilcox Group of the Eocene, 1^ miles 

 west of Grand Junction m Fayette County, Tennessee. (Collected 

 by L. C. Glenn.) 



Holotype.— Cut. No. 34445, U.S.N.M. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 21. 



Fig. 1. Impression of Combretanthites eocenica, new genus and species, lying across a 

 leaf of Cassia, natural size. 



2. Same enlarged four times. 



3. Same enlarged six times. 



4. Same as figure 3, photograph retouched. 



Figs. 1-3 are from photographs without retouching in any particular. 



I Felix, Zeits. deutsch. geol. Gesell., vol. 46, 1894, p. 90, pi. 10, figs. la-c. 



