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from Central America. The latter is, I think, the form figured by 

 Ettingshausen in his Blattskelet. Dikotyledonen as Artocarpus, 

 species, to which I refer in a subsequent paragraph. The modern 

 leaves vary considerably in size, as would probably prove true in the 



Fig. 2.— Restoration* of coussapoa vu.losiodes, new species, natural size. 



case of the fossil were more material available for study; this is 

 certainly true of an undescribed fossil species which I collected from 

 the Pliocene of Bolivia. 



The only observable differences between the Tertiary Coussapoa 

 villosoides and the existing Coussapoa villosa are that occasionally a 

 distal tertiary in the latter becomes somewhat stouter and diverges at 



