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straight in their course, thinner than the mid- 

 rib. Above the primaries there is an interval, 

 and then about six pairs of thin, curved, ap- 

 proximately parallel camptodrome secondaries 

 branch from the midrib at acute angles. The 

 lateral primal ies give off on the outside numer- 

 ous regularly spaced and approximately par- 

 allel curved camptodrome secondaries, the 

 latter feature serving to distinguish this species 

 from other fossil species of this genus and fiom 

 Ciimaniomum, Cocculus, or other genera having 

 somewhat similar leaves, with which it might 

 be compared. Texture coriaceous. 



This fine large species is represented at 

 Arthurs Bluff, Tex., by fragmentary but char- 

 acteristic specimens. The description was 

 largely drawn up from abundant and complete 

 material from the Tuscaloosa formation of 

 western Alabama. The specimens show con- 

 siderable variation in size and some in outline, 

 the leaf being widest either nearer to or farther 

 from the base. In the latter form the distal 

 part is more fully rounded and abruptly con- 

 tracted to the acuminate tip, while the base is 

 more gradually narrowed and finally cuneate 

 rather than decurrent. In the former the 

 apical part is more gradually narrowed and the 

 base is full and rounded abruptly, decurring 

 to the petiole. 



This species is markedly different from other 

 described fossil forms but may be matched by 

 several modem tropical American species of 

 Orfodaphrif. The genus Oreodaphne of Nees, 

 which is exclusively American in the existing 

 flora, is made a subgenus of Ocotea Aublet by 

 Pax in Engler and Piantl's " Die natiirlichen 

 Pflanzenfamilien." The genus Ocotea, which for 

 paleobotanic purposes may be considered as 

 composite, has about two hundred modern 

 species occurring chiefly in the American 

 Tropics and ranging from southern Florida to 

 Brazil and Peru but having somu representa- 

 tives (subgenus Mcspilodaphne Nees) in the 

 Canary Islands, South Africa, Madagascar, 

 and the Mascarene Islands. 



The single existing American species reach- 

 ing the United States whose habit and environ- 

 ment may be taken as typical for the whole 

 genus is found in Florida, southward from 

 Capes Canaveral and Romano, along the shores 

 and islands, except on some of the western keys, 

 making its best growth in the rich, moist ham- 

 mock lands near the coast. 



Genus CINNAMOMTIM Blume. 



Cinnamomum newberryi Berry. 



Plate XXXIX, figme 3. 



Cinnamomum sezannense Heer, Flora fossilis arctica, vol. 6, 

 Abt. 2. p. 77, pi. 19, fig. 8; pi. 33, figs. 11. 12, 1882 

 (not Watelet); vol. 7, p. 30, pi. 41, fig. la, 1883. 



Lesquereux, The flora of the Dakota group, p. 107, pi. 

 12, fig. 7, 1892 (not fig. 6). 



Dawson, Roy. Soc. Canada Trans., Istser., vol. 2, seo. 

 4, p. 64, pi. 13, fig. .58, 1894. 



Hollick, Torrey Bot. Chib Bull., vol. 21, p. ry.i. pi. 

 180, figs. .5, 7, 1894. 



Penhallow, Roy. Soc. Canada Trans., 2d ser., vol. 8, 

 sec. 4. p. 4G, 1902. 



Hollick, New York State M\l9. Fifty-fifth Ann. Rept,, 

 for 1901, p. r50, 1903. 

 Cinnamomum intermedium Newberry, Smith, On the ge- 

 ■ ology of the Coastal Plain of Alabama, p. 348, 1894 

 (nomen nudimi'l (not Ettingshausen). 



Newberry, The flora of the Amboy clays, p. 89, pi. 29, 

 figs. 1-8, 1890. 



Berry, NewJ ersey Geol. Survey Ann. Rept. for 1905, 

 p. 139. pi. 20, figs. 2-6, 1906; Torrey Bot. Club Bull., 

 vol. 33. p. 179, pi. 7. figs. 3, 4; vol. 37, p. 27, 1910. 



Hollick, The Cretaceous flora of southern New York 

 aBd New England, p. 74, pi. 29, fig. 7; pi. 30, figs. 

 1, 2, 1906. 

 Cinnamomum neivherryi Berry, Torrey Bot. Club Bull., 

 vol. 38, p. 423, 1911; New Jersey Geol. Survey 

 Bull. 3, p. 1.50, pi. 16, fig. 3, 1911; U. S. Geol. Sur- 

 vey Prof. Paper 84. pp. 54, 117. pi. 9, figs. 12, 13; 

 pi. 21. figs. 9-11. 1914; Maiyland Geol. Survey, 

 Upper Cretaceous, p. 860. pi. 71, fig. 6. 1916; U. S. 

 (ieol. Survey Prof. Paper 112. p. 118. pi. 21. figs. 6-9, 

 1919. 

 Cinnamomum n. sp.? Knowlton, U. S. Geol. Siu-vey 

 Twenty-first Ann. Rept., pt. 7, p. 317, 1901. 



Leaves subcoriaceous, lanceolate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, differing greatly in size and conse- 

 quently in appearance. Apex short-pointed or 

 more or less narrowly extended; base broad, 

 narrowed to the petiole. Primaries three, usu- 

 ally suprabasilar. 



This species is primarily distmguished from 

 Cinnamormim heerii Lesquereux, which Knowl- 

 ton ^^ recorded from the Woodbine sand of 

 Cooke County, Tex., by its relatively narrower 

 form and acute base. The present species, as 

 revised acct)rdiiig to the foregoing citations, 

 has a remarkable range in the L'pper Creta- 

 ceous. It is recorded from the Raritan for- 

 mation of New Jersey, the oldest formation in 

 which it has been found. Above the Raritan 

 it occurs in the Ataiie and Patpot beds of Green- 

 land, m the Magothy formation from Long 



3s Knowlton, F.H.,in Hill.R.T., Geographyandgeology or the Black 

 and Grand prairies, p Jls, 1901. 



