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surface mammillated much as in Podocarpus elongata but less 
markedly so. Bony endocarp ovate-acuminate, immersed in the 
apical part of the exocarp. Evidently the drupaceous fruits of 
some Cretaceous member of the Taxaceae which finds its closest 
homology in the recent flora in the fruits of Cephalotaxus and cer- 
tain species of Podocarpus. 
Cephalotaxospermum carolinianum sp. nov. 
Fruit a drupe with the following dimensions as preserved in a 
much flattened condition: length 6 mm. to 13 mm., averaging 
about 10 mm. ; breadth 5 mm. to 10 mm. averaging about 8 ma. ; 
thickness about 3 mm.; fruit in life probably almost circular in 
cross-section. Peduncle short and stout or wanting. Stone ovate- 
acuminate, lying in the apical part of the fleshy exocarp with the 
beaked micropylar end reaching almost or quite to the apex. 
preserved in a much flattened condition in the clays, these fruits 
tend to split into two parts, disclosing the bony endocarp or 
merely a cast of its cavity. The fleshy part of the fruit is carbon- 
ized and fails to show any histological details. There is some 
evidence or at least a suggestion in some specimens of the remains 
of a micropylar canal. Away from the pointed apex, the exocarp 
is I mm. to 2 mm. in thickness reaching a thickness of 3 mm. at 
the chalazal end. 
These fruits are very abundant at certain localities in the Black 
Creek formation and they have been collected also in the extension 
of this formation near Florence, S. C., and in the upper part of the 
Tuscaloosa formation in Hale County, Alabama. 
Fruits referable to the Taxaceae are extremely rare in the fossil 
state, as are also remains of foliage which can be referred with cer- 
tainty to this family. Both Zimion and Cephalotaxopsis from the 
Lower Cretaceous of Maryland and Virginia are founded upon 
foliage which seems referable with considerable certainty to this 
family, and these same strata in those states abound in the foliage 
referred to the genus MNageiopsis, which seems to be closely 
related to Podocarpus, so that there is considerable reason for 
expecting to find Upper Cretaceous representatives of the family 
in this same general region. Heer * describes a leafy twig from 
the Patoot beds (Senonian) of Greenland with a large solitary fruit 
which he calls Cephalotaxites insignis, an identification which 
* Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 7: 10. pl. 537. f. 22. 1883. 
