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nuntia, since it is prophetic and probably ancestral to Bumelia lanugino- 

 safolia Berry of the Wilcox Eocene. It is suggestive of several modern 

 species of Bumelia of the coastal region in the southern United States and 

 throughout tropical America to Brazil. There are a score of existing 

 species confined to America. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County. 



Collection. Maryland Geological Survey. 



Family EBENACEAE 



Genus DIOSPYROS Linne 

 [Sp. PL, 1753, p. 1057] 



DIOSPYROS PRIMJEVA Heer 

 Plate XC, Fig. 4 



Diospyros primceva Heer, 1866, Phyll. Cr6t. d. Nebr., p. 19, pi. i, figs. 6, 7. 

 Diospyros primceva Heer, 1882, Fl. Foss. Arct, Bd. vi, Ab. ii, p. 80, pi. xviii, 



fig. 11. 



Diospyros primceva Heer, 1883, Ibidem, Bd. vii, p. 31, pi. li, figs. 5a, 5b, 5c. 

 Diospyros primceva Engelhardt, 1891, Isis, Abh. vii, p. 98. 

 Diospyros primceva Lesquereux, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 



109, pi. xx, figs. 1-3. 

 ? Diospyros primceva Fri6, 1893, Archiv. Naturw. Landes. Bohm., Bd. ix, Nr. 



i, p. 130, tf. 186. 



Diospyros primceva Smith, 1894, Geol. Coastal Plain Ala., p. 348. 

 Diospyros primceva Newberry, 1896, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xxvi, p. 



124, pi. xxx, figs. 1-5. 

 Diospyros primceva Bartsch, 1896, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist, Univ. Iowa, vol. iii, 



p. 181. 

 Diospyros primwva Knowlton, 1901, 21st Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Survey, pt. 



vii, p. 317, pi. xxxix, fig. 3. 

 Diospyros primtrva Berry, 1905, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxii, p. 46, 



pi. ii. 

 Diospyros primceva Hollick, 1907, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1, p. 103, pi. 



xlii, figs. 2, 11. 



Diospyros primceva Berry, 1911, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxiv, p. 2C4. 

 Diospyros primceva Berry, 1911, Ibidem, vol. xxxviii, p. 417. 

 Diospyros primceva Berry, 1911, Bull. 3, Geol. Survey of New Jersey, p. 211, 



pi. xxix, fig. 1. 

 Diospyros primceva Berry, 1914, Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 84, p. 61, 



pi. xi, fig. 3; pi. xiv, figs. 12, 13. 



Description. Leaves oblong-ovate in outline, variable according to age. 

 ranging from 3 cm. to 15 cm. in length by 1.3 cm. to 5 cm. in greatest 



