260 Berry : Mesozoic flora of the coastal plain 



Leaf elliptical, about 12 cm. in length by 7.5 cm. in greatest 

 breadth, which is near the middle. Margin entire. Midrib stout. 

 Secondaries about 10 pairs, subopposite to alternate, compara- 

 tively slender and somewhat flexuous, camptodrome. Apex ap- 

 parently rounded. Base contracted and then prominently auricu- 

 late, the three or four secondaries involved radiating from the base 



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of the midrib. 



This species is based upon a single specimen from Woodbridge, 

 which Professor Newberry suggested may be related to the modern 

 species of Coccoloba. 



Very little can be said in favor of the reference of this leaf to 

 Lesquereux's genus Protophyllum^ all of the species of which differ 

 from it in outline and marginal characters. Professor Newberry 

 places great reliance upon the character of the base, but in the 

 Raritan specimen this is decidedly auriculate and not subpeltate 

 and the veins in this part of the leaf are radiate and not more or 

 less parallel. Finally, the venation is distinctly camptodrome and 

 not craspedodrome as it is in Lesquereux's definition of the genus 

 and in all the other species which have subsequently been referred 

 to it. For these reasons it is here placed in the genus Pterosper- 

 mites, which seems to be a more natural arrangement. It may be 

 compared with Pterospermitcs auriculatus Heer * of the Atane beds 

 of Greenland which, while somewhat different in outline, is a leaf 

 of the same general facies and is undoubtedly congeneric. 



Occurrence : Woodbridge. 



Collections : N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Eucalyptus angusta Velen. 



Eucalyptus angusta Velen. Fl. Bohm, Kreidef. 4 : 3. //. j. /. 2-12 

 1885; Kvetena ceskeho cenomanu 21. pL6.f. /. 1889. 

 Sap. Fl. Foss. Portugal 207. pi. 36. / 12. 1894. 



" Blatter lineal, schmal lineallanzettlich, in der Mitte oder in 

 der unteren Halfte am breitesten, ganzrandig, vorne in eine sehr 

 lange Spitze vorgezogen und mit einem harten Dorn beendet. Der 

 Primarnerv gerade, ziemlich stark, zur Spitze hin verdiinnt. Die 

 Secundarnerven zahlreich, unter spitzen Winkeln entspringend, am 

 Rande durch einen Saumnerv untereinander verbunden. Der 

 Blattstiel gerade, etwa i cm. lang, stark." Velenovsky, 1885. 



The foregoing is Velenovsky*s description of this interesting 



species, which is exceeding common at a number of localities in 



*Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 6^ : 95. //. 27. f. 4. 1882. 



