(83) 



North American species are S. viarginatus Willd., whicii 

 ranges from Kansas to northern Mexico and eastward to 

 Georgia and Florida; ^S*. Safonaria Linn., of the Florida 

 Keys, West Indies and Venezuela ; and S. Drummondii H. & 

 A. The American fossil species are numerous, there being 

 twenty-one or more forms distributed as follows: Island i, 

 Matawan i, Dakota 2, Denver i, Upper Laramie i, Eocene, 

 Ky. I, Brandon, Vt. i, Green River 7, Fort Union 5, Ter- 

 tiary of Yellowstone Park 2, Eolignitic 4, Miocene i, Green- 

 land 3. 



Did we assume that these fossil leaflets should be of uni- 

 form size and form, as they are in our existing species of 

 the Southwest, the number of fossil species would be greatly 

 multiplied. 



Sapindus Morrisoni Lesq. PL 47./. 2,j. 



Sapmdiis Morrisoni Lesq. Cret. & Tert. Fl. 83. fl. 16. 



J. I, 2. 1883 ; Fl. Dak. Group, 158. pi. jj. /• i, 2. 



1892. Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 6^: 96. fl. 40. f. i; fl. 



4i.J.j;fl.4j./.ia,b;fl.44./.7,8. 1882. Hollick, 



Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 11: fl. 3. f. 5. 1892; 12: 



235. fl. 6. f. 3. 1893; Bull. Torrey Club, 2i : 57. 



fl. 179./. 8. 1894; Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 7: 13. 1895 ; 



Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 11: 422. fl. 36. f. 4. 1898. 



White, Am. Jour. Sci. III. 39: 99. fl. 2. f. 12. 1890. 

 The Cliffwood forms are small leaves with a considerably 

 inequilateral base and numerous somewhat ascending irregu- 

 larly curved camptodrome secondaries. There is no question 

 but what this is a species of Safindus ; it agrees quite well 

 with Lesquereux's Cret. & Tert. Fl. /. 2, and Fl. Dak. 

 Group, f. .2, and Hollick's specimen from Tottenville, 

 Staten Island, all of which are rather smaller than the other 

 figured leaves of this species. Hollick * identifies two fairly 

 perfect leaves from this horizon with Velenovsky's Safindus 

 aficulatus from the Bohemian Cretaceous. These leaves are 

 somewhat smaller than our specimens and less full at the 



* Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. i5: 133. pi. ij. f. r, 2. 1S97 . 



