BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 179 
Mine Creek, three and one half miles north of Nashville, Howard 
County. 
Ficus OVATIFOLIA Berry (?) 
Ficus ovata Newberry, Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv. 26: 70. pl. 24. f. I-3. 
1896. Not Don, 1802-3. 
Ficus ovatifoia Berry, Bull. Torrey Club 36: 253. 1909. 
Leaves ovate in outline, extended above into a narrow, usually 
pointed apex. Length 8-12 cm. Greatest width, which is in the 
basal part of the leaf, 4-7 cm. Base broadly rounded and in 
many specimens slightly decurrent. Margins entire. Primaries, 
three from the base, the midrib somewhat stouter than the lateral 
primaries. Secondaries camptodrome. 
This species is closely allied to the Raritan species Ficus 
Woolsoni Newberry, differing primarily in its greater elongation 
and in the tendency of the former to a cordate outline. Ficus 
ovatifolia was described originally from the Raritan formation of 
New Jersey. It is present in the Black Creek formation of North 
Carolina and in the Eutaw formation in Georgia and Tennessee. 
The Bingen material is fragmentary and not certainly identified, 
OCCURRENCE: Mine Creek, three and one half miles north of 
Nashville, Howard County. 
RANALES 
RANUNCULACEAE (?) 
DEWALQUEA Saporta & Marion 
Dewalquea insigniformis sp. nov. 
Leaves digitate, of probably five leaflets. Leaflets linear- 
acuminate with prominently serrate margins. Length about 12 
cm. Maximum width mostly 1-1.25 cm., at or slightly above the 
middle. Base very gradually narrowed and with entire margins 
for a distance of about 2 cm. Midrib stout, prominent on the 
under surface of the leaflets. Secondaries numerous, diverging 
from the midrib at angles of from thirty to forty degrees, long 
ascending and eventually camptodrome, sending off small out- 
wardly directed branches to the marginal teeth. Texture cori- 
aceous. [FiGs. 6, 7.] 
This characteristic new species with its coriaceous texture must 
have had rather stiff strict leaves in life. It adds to our flora 
