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end downward, a position that heightened their resemblance to 
small bulbs, at least to the casual observer. Without careful 
study they were supposed to be palm fruits, and in the paper above 
mentioned they are recorded as a new species of Palmocarpon. 
But on careful study it appeared that they failed to meet the 
requirements for a reference to the palms, and in casting about for 
possible relationship it was suggested to me by Mr. F. V. Coville, 
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Ficus Ceratops sp. nov. 1, 3, and 4, side views of fruits; 2, end view of 1. 
botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture, that 
they were probably fruits ofa species of Ficus, and such they 
undoubtedly are. In the seed collection of the United States 
National Herbarium I find (no. II,713) a single woody fruit of a 
Ficus—unfortunately without specific name—from Egypt that is 
hardly to be distinguished from them. This is of approximately 
the same size and is of precisely the same shape and appearance as 
the fossils, having a thick woody “shell” provided with numerous 
somewhat finer ribs or striae, the main point of difference being 
in the apex, where the entrance to the interior cavity is much 
larger and practically closed by a woody diaphragm or protuber- 
