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tapering equally from the middle toward both ends but more fully 
rounded at the base and more slender toward the tip, especially in 
the smaller leaves. Midrib broad. Secondaries very slender, 
leaving the midrib at a wide angle, which becomes as great as 90° 
in some of the larger specimens, very numerous, 2~4 mm. apart, 
parallel, almost straight to the marginal vein, which is well marked 
and about 1 mm. distant from the margin, with which it is parallel. 
Veinlets largely at right angles to the secondaries and not espe- 
cially well shown. Petiole stout. (PLATE 23, FIGURES, 2, 3.) 
This is an exceedingly well-marked species of Ficus and is very 
close to various modern species in form and venation characters, 
as is well shown by the figure of a leaf of Ficus elastica Roxb. 
which is introduced for comparison on PLATE 23. It is probable, 
however, that the texture of the fossil species was less coriaceous, 
since all of the larger leaves are considerably macerated. 
It is believed that the larger forms represent the normal size of 
the leaves in this species and that the smaller leaves, which occur 
only in material from South Carolina, represent abortive leaves 
which fell before reaching maturity, as is so commonly the case 
with the modern allied species. 
_ The species is named in recognition of the diligent and careful 
collecting of Dr. L. W. Stephenson, who discoverd it at both Mid- 
dendorf and Langley in South Carolina before the original material 
collected by the writer at Court House Bluff in North Carolina 
had been named. 
Some authors refer leaves of this type to the genus Zucalyptus, 
with which genus the venation has much in common. In point of 
size the Carolina leaves are comparable with those of such a spe- 
cies as Eucalyptus /atifolia Hollick, from Glen Cove, Long Island. 
The secondaries are less regular and only about half so numerous 
in the latter species and there seems to be little doubt of the pro- 
priety of referring the present species to the genus Ficus. 
It is very similar to a variety of closely related Upper Cretaceous 
species of Ficus of the type of the existing Ficus elastica Roxb. 
and its allies, commonly cultivated as ornamental shrubs and trees 
under the name of “rubber plants.’’ The comparable fossil forms 
include Ficus glacoeana Lesq. (see Fl. Dak. Group 76. f/. 73. 
f, I, 2. 1892), with which there is a possibility that the present 
species may be identical, as it is very similar in outline and vena- 
