400 Berry: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 
Malapoenna horrellensis Berry,* of the Black Creek formation in 
North Carolina, by its suprabasilar primaries and cuneate base 
but may possibly be a fragment of Cinnamomum Newberryi Berry.t 
Oreodaphne alabamensis sp nov. 
DEscRIPTION: Leaves of large size, ovate in general outline, 
ranging from 13 cm. to 20 cm. in length, and from 4.75 cm. to7 
cm. in maximum width, which is at a point about midway between 
the apex and the base. From the point of greatest width the 
margins curve, both distad and proximad, in a very full curve, 
narrowing rather abruptly to the acuminate tip and also to the 
more or less decurrent base. Midrib stout, curved. Lateral 
primaries opposite, one on each side, branching from the midrib 
at an acute angle a considerable distance above its base, rather 
straight in their course, thinner than the midrib. Above the 
primaries there is an interval, and then about six pairs of thin, 
curved, approximately parallel, camptodrome secondaries branch 
from the midrib at acute angles. The lateral primaries give 0 
on the outside numerous regularly spaced and approximately 
parallel curved camptodrome secondaries, the latter feature serving 
to distinguish this species from other fossil species of this genus, 
and from Cinnamomum, Cocculus, or other genera with somewhat 
similar leaves with which it might be compared. Texture corla- 
ceous. (PLATE 32.) 
This fine large species is represented at Arthurs Blufi by 
fragmentary but characteristic specimens. The foregoing de- 
scription and the figure are drawn from abundant and pao oe 
material collected by the writer from the lower Tuscaloosa 4 
western Alabama. It shows considerable variation in - 
some in outline, the latter dependent on whether the leaf is wides 
nearer to or farther from the base. In the latter case the ve - 
part is more fully rounded and abruptly contracted to the * 
nate tip, while the base is more gradually narrowed and fi : : 
cuneate rather than decurrent. In the former peed the md d 
portion is more gradually narrowed and the base 1s ful 
rounded abruptly, decurring to the petiole. 
This species is markedly different from previously ‘cal 
fossil forms but may be matched by several modern OTE 
American species of Oreodaphne. The genus Oreodaphné 0° 
Sinha Sik Tonite ae tid 
described 
* Berry, Bull. Torrey Club 37: 198. pl. 24. f. 1-9. 1910. 
Tt Berry, loc. cit. 38: 423.- 1OTt. 
