288 BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 
ARECALES 
PALMAE 
SABALITES Saporta 
SABALITES sp. 
Fragments of leaves of a large fan palm are present in the 
basal Ripley beds of Benton County, and in the McNairy sand 
of McNairy County, Tennessee. They indicate large flabellate 
leaves with numerous rays 1.5-2 cm. broad with an illy-defined 
midrib and closeset parallel lateral veins. The texture is cori- 
aceous. 
The material is very fragmentary and is altogether insufficient 
for specific diagnosis. It is in my judgment distinct from the 
so-called Sabalites Grayanus Lesquereux of the Montana Group, 
Sabalites magothiensis Berry of the Magothy formation or Sabalites 
carolinensis Berry of the Middendorf beds of South Carolina. 
OccuRRENCE: RIPLEY FORMATION, McNairy SAND 
MEMBER. One half mile from Camden, Benton County; two and 
one half miles southwest of Selmer, McNairy County, Tennessee. 
MYRICALES 
MYRICACEAE 
-Myrica Linné 
Myrica ripleyensis sp. nov. 
Leaves of medium size, linear-lanceolate in outline with a 
gradually cuneate base. Length about 13cm. Maximum width, 
in the middle part of the leaf, about 1.75 cm. Margins con-. 
spicuously serrate-toothed, the teeth somewhat irregular in size 
and disposition ; distad they are reduced and close-set. They 
increase in size proximad until in the median and basal part of 
the leaf, they are large and triangular the intervening sharp 
sinuses reaching nearly to the midrib and closely simulating out 
recent Comptonia in character. Texture coriaceous. Petiole not 
preserved, presumably short and stout. Midrib stout, flexuous. 
Secondaries numerous, diverging from the midrib at wide angles. 
