124 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



Description. — Leaves ovate in outline, 8 cm. to 13 cm. in 

 length by 4 cm. to 7 cm. in breadth, petiolate. Apex extended, 

 acute. Base rounded or somewhat descending. Margins entire. 

 Principal veins 3, from the base, the midrib being the stoutest 

 and slightly flexuous. The lateral veins diverge at angles of 

 about 45° and curve upward, traversing somewhat more than 

 the basal half of the leaf and connecting with branches from the 

 lowest pair of camptodrome secondaries of which there are 

 several alternating pairs which branch from the midrib at a 

 wider angle. The laterals give off on the outside 8 to 10 camp- 

 todrone veins. Quadrangular areoles formed by nearly straight 

 transverse nervilles fill all of the intervening space. 



This species is very close to the same author's Ficiis Woolsoni, 

 which is a much less elongated comparatively broader leaf, often 

 with a cordate base in consequence. 



The very appropriate name ovata is antedated by F^iais ovata 

 Don (1802-03), SO' that it becomes necessary to rename the 

 Raritan species. 



Occurrence. — Woodbridge, Milltown. 



Collections. — N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Ficus Woolsoni Hollick. 

 Plate XII, Figs, i, 2. 



Ficus IVoohoni Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 12 : 33, pi 

 2, f. I, 2c, 1892; Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 11 : 419, 

 pi. 37, f. 9, 1898; U. S. Geol. Surv., Mon. 50: 59, pL 

 II,, f. 5, 6, 1907. 



Smith, Geol. Coastal Plain in Ala., 348, 1894. 



Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 70, pi. 20, f. j; pi. 23, f. 1-6, 

 1896. 



Berry, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. 3 : 74, pi. 4/, f. 7, 1903 ; 

 Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 33: 172, 1906; Ann. Rept. State 

 Geol. (N. J.) for 1905; 139, 1906. 



