ART. 24 FOSSIL PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA BEERY 7 



Order SAPINDALES 



Family SAPINDACEAE 

 Genus SAPINDOIDES Perkins 



SAPINDOIDES PERUVIANUS Berry 



Plate 1, Figure 10 



Sapindoides peruvianus Berry, Pan Amer. Geol., vol. 47, p. 126, pi. 19, fig. 9, 

 1927. 



This determination is based upon the single specimen figured, which 

 appears to be identical with the type. It is especially interesting in 

 having been collected from middle Eocene marine beds in Colombia. 

 It was described originally from Belen in northwestern Peru and has 

 also been recorded from the Ancon Point sandstone of western 

 Ecuador. If I have been correct in identifying this species at these 

 three widely scattered early Tertiary localities, these occurrences 

 have a considerable value for purposes of correlation and also in 

 their bearing upon environmental conditions. 



Occurrence. — Middle Eocene. Arroyo 13/^ miles east of Tolu Viejo 

 on trail to Colodo, Department of Bolivar. Collected by A. Iddings 

 and F. A. Sutton. 



Order RHAMNALES 



Family RHAMNACEAE 

 Genus GOUIANA Linnaeus 



GOUIANA LEIVANA, new species 



Plate 5, Figure 2 



Leaves ovate-cordate, small, with a sharply but shortly pointed tip 

 and an equilateral cordate base. Margins entire below, above with 

 large and somewhat variable crenate teeth. Textures subcoriaceous. 

 Length about 5.5 centimeters. Maximum width, about midway 

 between the apex and the base, about 4 centimeters. Petiole not 

 preserved. Mid vein stout, prominent. A pair of stout lateral 

 primaries diverge from the base of the midvein at angles of about 

 45° and sweep upward in broad even curves about two-thirds of the 

 distance to the tip, where they join the lower secondaries. Second- 

 aries relatively thin ; about four camptodrome pairs in the upper half 

 of the leaf; also as regularly spaced camptodrome outer branches 

 from the lateral primaries. Tertiaries thin. Areolation indistinct. 



This species bears considerable resemblance to part of the material 

 from the tuffs of Santa Ana which Engelhardt included in his Gouiana 

 jirmaP The material has been compared especially with recent 



» Engelhardt, H., Abh. Senck. Naturf. Gesell., vol. 19, p. 34, pi. 4, flgs. 6, 7, 1895. 



