146 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



in the insular Cretaceous floras and also occurs in the South 

 Atlantic Coastal Plain. Supposed fruits are figured by Heer 

 (loo. cit. pi. 42, f. 4b). 



Occurrence. — ^Hylton Pits, Milltown. 



Collections. — N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Genus LAUROPHYLLUM Goeppert. 



(Tertiarfl. Java, 1854, p. 45.) 

 Laurophyllum nErvillosum Hollick. 



Laurophylliim ncrviUosiim Hollick, Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. 

 50:82, pi. 27, f. 6, 7, 1907. 

 Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 36:255, 1909. 

 Proteoides daphnogenoides Hjollick, Ann N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 

 II :420, pi. 36, f. I, 3, 1898. 



Description. — ^Leaves of comparatively large size, oblong lan- 

 ceolate in outline, about 15 cm. in length by about 2.6 an. in 

 greatest breadth, \vhich is about midway between the apex and 

 base. Apex acuminate. Base pointed, narrowly cuneate. Mid- 

 rib stout. Secondaries thin, close, parallel, branching from^ the 

 midrib at angles not exceeding and usually somewhat less than 

 45°, ascending, nearly straight or somewhat flexuous, connected 

 by transverse nervilles, branching and inosculating near the mar- 

 gin where they merge in the tertiary venation. 



This species was described originally from the terminal 

 moraine at Tottenville, Staten Island, and undoubtedly represents 

 transported Raritan materials. Three specimens are contained 

 in the Milltown collection, and the writer has also collected 

 it from somewhat higher horizons south of New Jersey. It is 

 somewhat like Lanrophyllum lanccolatiuni Newberry, but has a 

 markedly different venation and a less lanceolate outline. It is 

 also cjuite close to Laurophylluni elegans Hollick, which is, how- 

 ever, a more slender lanceolate leaf, with narrowly produced 

 apex and base and a somewhat coarser venation, with less close 

 and more curved camptodrome secondaries. 



Occurrence. — M illtown. 



Collections. — U. S. National Museum. 



