I50 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



Genus CINNAMOMUM Blume. 



CiNNAMOMUM Newberryi Berry. 



Plate XVI, Fig. 3. 



Cinnamomum intermedium- Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 89, pi. 2^, 

 f, 1-8, 10, 1896 (non Ettingshansen). 

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



nudum). 

 Berry, Ann. Rept. State Geol. (N. J-) for 1905 : 139. pi. 20, 

 f. 2-6, 1906; Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 33: 179, pi. 7, f. 

 3, 4, 1906. 

 Hollick, U. S. Geol. Surv. Mon. 50: 74, pi. 2g, f. 7; pi. 30, 

 f. I, 2, 1907. 

 Cinnamomum sezannense Wat., Hollick, Bull. Torrey Oub, vol. 

 21 : 53, pi. iSo, f. 5, 7, 1894; Ann. Rept. N. Y. State 

 Mus., 55th: A 50 (1901) 1903. 



Description. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate in outline, 7 cm. to 12 

 cm. in leng-th by 2.3 cm. tO' 4 cm. in width. Apex usually 

 obtusely pointed, sometimes acuie. Below narrowed to an acute 

 base. Petiole stout. Venation stout. Primaries 3, the laterals 

 diverging at an acute angle usually some distance above the 

 base and traversing at least more than half the distance to^ the 

 tip. Secondaries in the upper half of the leaf, 3 or 4 pairs, 

 alternate, camptodrome. The laterals give off numerous camp- 

 todrome branches on the outside. 



This species is quite common in the Raritan formation at 

 nearly all of the fossiliferous localities and it also has a consider- 

 able outside range extending eastward on Long Island and 

 southward in Delaware, Maryland and Alabama. A very simi- 

 lar leaf which is widely distributed in the Cenomanian of 

 Bohemia is identified by Velenovsky^ as Aralia daphnophyllum. 



Cinnamomum Heeri was reported from the Raritan at South 

 Amboy by Professor Lesquereux in the 1878 clay report, but it 

 seems probable that this determination was based on specimens 



^ Velenovsky, Fl. Bohm. Kreidef . i : 30, pi. 7, f. 5-8, 10 ; pi. 8, f. 1-5, 1882. 



