No. 2363. FOSSIL PLANTS FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC— BERRY. 125 



Order EBENALES. 

 Family SAPOTACEAE. 



Genus BUMELIA Swartz. 



BUMELIA RECLINATAFOLIA, new species. 



Plate 21, fig. 4. 



Description. — Exceedingly coriaceous obovate leaves with slightly 

 revolute margins, widest in the distal half, with a broadly rounded, 

 sometimes slightly emarginate, apex and a gradually narrowed 

 cuneate base. Length about 4.1 cm. Maximum width about 1.8 

 cm. Petiole short and very stout, about 2 mm. in length. Midrib 

 stout and prominent, usually slightly curved. Secondaries immersed 

 in the thick substance of the leaf. 



With the exception that the secondaries are immersed in the leaf 

 substance, this species is identical with the existing Bumelia reclinata 

 Ventenat of the North American mainland. It is, however, almost 

 equally close to several Antillean forms, as, for example, the Ants 

 wood or Downward Plum (Bumelia angustifolia Nuttall). 



The genus Bumelia, with over a score of existing species, is confined 

 to the warmer parts of America, although present in Europe during 

 the Tertiary. Its fossil species are numerous from the Upper Creta- 

 ceous onward, and represented in the Wilcox Eocene, Vicksburg and 

 Alum Bluff formation. 



Occurrence.— Locality No. 8684. Cut in clay near pier at Sanchez, 

 District of Samana. 



Holotype.— Cat. No. 35459, U.S.N.M. 



Order RUBIALES. 

 Family RUBIACEAE. 



Genus RUBIACEAE Endlicher. 



GUETTARDA COOKEI, new species. 



Plate 21, figs. 5, 6. 



Description. — Leaves of small to medium size, elliptical in general 

 outline, equally pointed at both ends, with full entire margins and 

 subcoriaceous texture. Length ranging from 4 cm. to 6 cm. Maxi- 

 mum width, midway between apex and base, ranging from 2 cm. to 

 3 cm. Petiole missing. Midrib stout, straight, and prominent on 

 the underside of the leaf. Secondaries numerous, fairly stout, promi- 

 nent on the underside of the leaf; about nine subopposite to alter- 

 nate pairs diverge from the midrib at fairly regular intervals and 

 angles of about 60° to 70°; they are at first rather straight and then 



