ART. 14. TERTIARY FOSSIL PLANTS FROM HAITI——BERRY. 9 
This well-marked new species presents all of the essential features 
of the genus Chrysophyllum, and foreshadows the existing Chryso- 
phyllum oliviforme Lamarck, of the Florida Keys and Antilles. The 
genus, which is confined to the tropical and subtropical regions of the 
world, is mostly American, and has been present in equatorial America 
since lower Kocene time. 
Occurrence.—Artibonite group, Miocene (station 7544). 
Holotype.—Cat. No. 36614. U.S.N.M. 
Genus BUMELIA Swartz. 
BUMELIA CUNEATAFOLIA, new species. 
Plate 1, figs. 6, 7. 
Leaves of small size, obovate and somewhat inequilateral in general 
outline, widest above the middle. Apex bluntly pointed. Base cune- 
ate. Margins full and entire. Texture subcoriaceous. Length 
about 3.5 cm. Maximum width about 1.4 em. Petiole short and 
stout, about 3 mm. in length. Midrib relatively stout, curved. 
Secondaries thin, diverging from the midrib at angles of about 45 
degrees, camptodrome. ‘Tertiaries as indicated in the accompanying 
enlarged figure. 
This new species suggests comparisons with the somewhat larger 
existing Bumelia angustifolia Nuttall, of the Gulf coastal region of 
the United States, and Bumelia cuneata Swartz, of the Florida Keys 
and Antilles, the resemblance to the latter furnishing the specific 
name proposed for the fossil. The genus Bumelia has been present 
in southeastern North America since lower Eocene time, or earlier, 
and its score or more existing species are now confined to the warmer 
temperate and tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere. 
Occurrence.—Artibonite group, Miocene (station 7544). 
Holotype.—Cat. No. 36615, U.S.N.M. 
Order RUBIALES. 
Family RUBIACEAE. 
Genus GUETTARDA Endlicher. 
GUETTARDA COOKEI Berry. 
Guetardat cookei Berry, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, p. 125, pl. 21, figs. 5, 6, 
1921. 
Fragmentary material from the Republic of Haiti is almost cer- 
tainly this species which was described recently from the Miocene 
of the Dominican Republic. More recently, in studying Miocene 
plants from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a similar species of Guet- 
