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of Chusquea^ are present at the locality 21/0 kilometers north of 

 La Victoria, District of Miranda, State of Zulia. An undoubted 

 species of Chusqiiea has been described ^ from La Virginia, about 

 15 kilometers from Girardot, Department of Cundinamarca, 

 Colombia. 



Class DiCOTYLEDONAE 



Order Piperales 

 Family PIPERACEAE 

 Genus PIPERITES Goeppert 



PIPERITES CORDATUS Berry 



FiGUHE ^, g 



Piperltes cordatus Berry, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, p. 171, pi. 22, fig. 1, 

 1921 ; Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies in Geol., no. 6, p. 85, pi. 13, tig. 9, 1925. 



This species was described in 1921 from the middle Miocene of 

 southern Costa Rica. Subsequently incomplete material from the 

 Forest sand of the island of Trinidad, British West Indies, was 

 tentatively referred to it. 



Recently a somewhat similar form from the Miocene of tlie De 

 Mares Concession in the State of Santander, Colombia, has been 

 referred to Dioscorea. There is some doubt as to whether the pres- 

 ent fossil is nearer to Pifer or to Dioscorea^ but there is not the 

 slightest doubt of its botanical identity with the type of this species 

 from Costa Rica. 



Occurrence. — Betijoque, District of Betijoque, State of Trujillo. 

 U.S.N.M. no. 39289. 



Order Anonales 



Family ANONACEAE 



Genus ANONA Linnaeus 



ANONA GUPPYI Berry 



Anona guppyi Berry, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, p. 567, fig. 3, 1921. 



This species was described from the Miocene of Betijoque, Vene- 

 zuela, in 1921. Later collections have shown it to be present at 

 additional localities in Venezuela and also in beds of approximately 

 the same age on the De Mares Concession in the Magdalena Valley, 

 Department of Santander, Colombia. 



Berry, E. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 75, art. 24, p. 2, 1929. 



