64 BERRY: FossiL FRUITS FROM THE ANDES OF COLOMBIA 
Hemisphere in the region extending from southern peninsular 
Florida to Brazil. The characteristic leaflets of the pinnate 
leaves have occasionally been found fossil and three species, 
based upon leaves, have been described by the writer. These 
are Simaruba eocenica* from the Eocene of Tennessee, Simaruba 
miocenicat from the Miocene of Venezuela and Simaruba hatten- 
sist from the Miocene of Haiti. The present is the first recorded 
occurrence of fossil fruits of this interesting genus 
The specimens figured are from Guasca, Province of Cun- 
dinamarca. 
Family HUMIRIACEAE 
Genus SAccoGLotTtis Martius 
Saccoglottis cipaconensis sp. nov. 
Fics. 20-22 
Fruits relatively small, drupaceous, with thin mostly cor- 
roded flesh (sarcotesta). The stone or pericarp varies in form 
from a nearly rounded prolate spheroid with but slight evidence 
of a beak to elongate specimens with a pronounced central pointed 
beak. The proximal end of the stone is rounded, with a chalazal 
scar a located. The distal end, as SA Leaiiiad above, 
ore or less acutely pointed. The su urface i is minutely mam- 
millatedl and if these mammae represent the resin cysts which 
are sO prominent in the modern Saccoglottis amazonica which is 
the only living species of which I have had fruits for comparison, 
these cysts are much smaller in the present fossil than in the 
be species, or in the Pliocene Saccoglottis tertiaria Berry of 
Olivil 
The stone has imbedded in it from five to seven large seeds 
arranged symmetrically around the central axis, more rounded 
distad and more pointed proximad, narrowing inward with 
flat sides and triangular in cross section. These seeds are nar- 
rowly much elongate-elliptical in surface outline and are mostly 
1.5-1.75 cm. in length and 2-3 mm. in width. The seeds are 
somewhat unequally developed in all of the specimens, but not 
markedly so. Of the four specimens collected one is five-seeded, 
two are six-seeded, and one is seven-seeded. The total dimen- 
* U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 91: 252. pl. 54, f A 1916. 
t U.S. Natl. Mus. Proc. 59: 573. pl. roo, f. 2, 
t Idem. 62: 6. pi. 1, f. 8. 1922. 
