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angles usually some distance above the base, and traversing at least more 

 than half the distance to the tip. Secondaries in the upper half of the 

 leaf, three or four pairs, alternate, camptodrome. The laterals give off 

 numerous camptodrome branches on the outside. 



This species is quite common in the Earitan formation of New Jersey at 

 nearly all of the fossiliferous localities, and it has also a considerable addi- 

 tional range, extending eastward on Long Island and southward through 

 Delaware and Maryland to Alabama. A very similar leaf which is widely 

 distributed in the Cenomanian of Bohemia is identified by Velenovsky * as 



Numerous occurrences of Cinnamomum newberryi have been confused 

 with the European Lower Eocene species Cinnamomum sezannense 

 Watelet, although the two are perfectly distinct. 



Occurrence. EARITAN FORMATION. East Washington Heights, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Deep Cut, Delaware ; Grove 

 Point, Cecil County; Eound Bay and Little Eound Bay, Anne Arundel 

 County, Maryland. 



Collections. Maryland Geological Survey, U. S. National Museum. 



Genus LAURUS Auct. 



LAURUS PLUTONIA Heer 



Plate LXXI, Fig. 5 



Laurus plutonia Heer, 1882, Fl. Foss. Arct., Bd. vi, Ab. ii, p. 75, pi. xix, figs. 



Id, 2-4; pi. xx, figs. 3a, 4-5; ph xxviii, figs. 10, 11; pi. xliii, figs. 4b. 

 Laurus plutonia Heer, 1883, Ibidem, vol. vii, p. 30, pi. xlviii, fig. 2; pi. Ixii, 



fig. la. 

 Laurus plutonia Velenovsky, 1884, Fl. Bohm. Kreidef. Theil iii, p. 1, pi. iv, 



figs. 2-4. 

 Laurus plutonia Lesquereux, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 91, 



pi. xiii, pt. i, p. 14; pi. A, fig. 6; pi. B, fig. 5. 

 Laurus plutonia Newberry, 1896, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xxvi, p. 85, 



pi. xvi, figs. 10, 11. 

 Laurus plutonia Hollick, 1898, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. xl, p. 60, pi. iv, 



figs. 6, 7. 

 Laurus plutonia Fric and Bayer, 1901, Archiv. Naturw. Landes. Bohm., Bd. 



xi, Nr. ii, p. 130, tf. 94. 

 Laurus plutonia Berry, 1903, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. iii, p. 79, pi. i, 



figs. 9-11. 



1 Velenovsky, Fl. Bohm. Kreidef. Theil i, p. 30, pi. vii, figs. 5-8, 10; pi. viii, 

 figs. 1-5, 1882. 



