298 BrrrRyY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 
midway between the apex and the base; from this point they 
narrow gradually apically into an attenuated acuminate, usually 
curved, tip; and basally into a long, narrowly cuneate base. Mid- 
rib and petiole stout. Secondaries numerous, usually less close 
and somewhat coarser than in Laurophyllum nervillosum, branching 
from the midrib at an acute angle below, which becomes more 
open above the base of the leaf; they are usually more curved than 
in L. nervillosum and more distinctly camptodrome. Tertiaries 
transverse throughout. 
The species is certainly icineele from the upper Raritan at 
South Amboy, New Jersey, and is common in the Magothy forma- 
tion of Maryland. It is sparsely represented in the Black Creek 
beds of North Carolina and is not uncommon in the Middendort 
beds of South Carolina. 
OccURRENCE: EUTAW FORMATION, CoFFEE SAND 
MEMBER. Coffee Bluff, Hardin County, Tennessee. 
CINNAMOMUM Sprengel 
CINNAMOMUM HEERII Lesquereux 
Cinnamomum Heerii Lesquereux, Cretaceous Flora 84. pl. 28, f. 11- 
1874; Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv. 17: 105. pl. 15, f. I. 1892; 
Newberry, Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv. 35: 100. pl. 17, f. 1-3: 
1898; Berry, U.S. Dept. Int. Geol. Surv. Professional Paper 
84: 118. pl. 21, f.8. 1914. 
Leaves coriaceous, entire, ovate in outline, more or less attenu- 
ated apically. Base broadly rounded. Primaries three, stout, 
suprabasilar. Secondaries camptodrome. 
The exact status of this species is made out with difficulty. 
In typical specimens it is clearly distinct from Cinnamomum New- 
berryi Berry in its more regular outline and venation, broader 
form, more rounded base, and stouter suprabasilar primaries. 
Other remains have been referred to Cinnamomum Heerii which 
are not typical in some of these distinctive characters, and the 
well-known variation of the leaves of Cinnamomum renders a 
satisfactory solution of the problem difficult. It does, however, 
characterize the somewhat younger beds represented in the west 
by the Dakota sandstone and the Woodbine sand and in the 
Coastal Plain by the Magothy formation of the north and the 
Black Creek and Tuscaloosa formations of the south. In the 
