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respects differs from Protea and its allies, which are more cori- 

 aceous, with the secondaries branching at acute angles and 

 massed toward the often-apetiolate base. Compared with the 

 genus Ficus, it is found to closely resemble a number of different 

 species from such widely separated localities as Central and South 

 America and the Celebes. Especially among the Mexican and 

 Central American forms are very similar leaves seen, e. g., Ficiis 

 fasciculata Watson, Fictis land folia Hook and Arn., Ficus lig- 

 iistrinu Kunth and Bouche and Ficus sapida' Miq., especially 

 the latter, which has much the same outline and consistency, the 

 same prominent midrib and the same venation. Placed in the 

 genus Ficus where these fossil forms properly belong, they find 

 their affinity in the group vvdiich includes, among others, such 

 species as Ficus clongata Hosius, Ficus Bcrthoudi Lesq., Ficus 

 siispecta- Velen., Ficus Krausiana Heer, etc. 



This species has been found to be c{uite variable in size, rang- 

 ing in length from 11 cm. to 22 cm. and in breadth from 1.9 cm. 

 to -^.y cm. It is usually widest in the lower half of the leaf, 

 although sometimes the base is quite narrow and the widest part 

 is toward the middle. In all unequivocal material the upper 

 half of the leaf is narrow and is produced as a long, slender, often 

 recurved tip, which is one of the characteristic features of the 

 species. 



It is a widespread and common form ranging from Marthas 

 Vineyard to Alabama in Eastern North America, and from 

 Northwest Territory to Kansas and Nebraska in the west, and 

 serves to ally the Raritan formation with somewhat later beds 

 elsewhere. 



Occurrence. — Sayreville, AVoodbridge, Milltown, South Am- 

 boy. 



Collections. — U. S. National Museum, N.Y. Botanical Garden. 



Ficus ovatifolia Berry. 

 Pate XII, Fig. 3. 



Ficus ovata Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 70, pi. 2/j., f. i-j, 1896. 

 Ficus Woolsoni Beriw, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 34: 194, pi. 12, f. 



I, 1907. 

 Ficus ovatifolia Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 36: 253, 1909. 



