NO. 2270. MIOCENE FOSSIL PLANTS FROM PERU— BERRY. 293 



Order EBENALES. 



Family STYRACACEAE. 



Genus STYRAX Linnaeus. 



STYRAX LANCEOLATA Engelhardt (?) 



Piute 15, fig. 2. 

 .^tyrax lancelata Engelhardt, Abh. Senck. Naturf. Gesell., vol. 19, p. 32, 

 pi. 5, fig. 9, 1S95. 



This species Avas based upon rather complete material of relatively 

 small ovate-iaiiceolate coriaceous leaves from Santa Ana in Colombia. 

 The Peruvian materiiil ib fairiy satisfactorj'. but not positivel}'' 

 identified. 



The genus Sty rax comprises about three score species of shrubs 

 and trees, with two centers of distribution — northern South America 

 (Amazon basin), extending northward through Central America and 

 the Antilles and reappearing in the southern United Slates, and a 

 second extending from China and Japan thi-ough the East Indies, 

 with a few species extending westward to the Mediterranean region 

 of Europe, apparently relica of a Tertiary cosmopolitanism. 



About 16 fossil species have been recorded, some of which are of 

 uncertain botanical affinity; others representing flowers and fruit as 

 well as foliage are more convincing. Two species are recorded from 

 the early Eocene of Colorado. There are three species in the Oligo- 

 cene and eight in the Miocene of Europe, and characteristic seeds 

 iiave been found in the late Pliocene of Holland. Still existing 

 species occur in the Pleistocene of Japan. South America, in addi- 

 tion to the present species, has furnished two species from beds of 

 approximate!}' the same age in Chile. 



PJeswhjpe.—Cat. No. 35336, U.S.N.M. 



Order RUBIALES. 



Family RUBIACEAE. 



Genus CONDAMINEA De Candolle. 



CONDAMINEA GRANDIFOLIA Enselhaidt. 



Plate 17. 

 Condaminea gramlifoUa Engelhardt, Abh. Senck. Naturf. Gesell.. vol. 19, 

 p. 34, pi. 7, fig." 2 ; pi. 9, fig. 1, 1895. 



Descriftion. — Leaves of large size, elliptical in general outline, but 

 with an acuminate apex. Length about 24 cm. or 25 cm. Maxi- 

 mum width, midway between the apex and the base, about 12 cm. 

 Margins entire, evenly rounded. Texture coriaceous. Petiole miss- 

 ing. Midrib stout, prominent. Secondaries stout, but not especially 

 so for such large leaves: there are about 12 subopposite to alternate 



