TERTIARY FLORA OF CHILE: 129 



Order THYMELEALES 



Family LAURACE^E 



Genus NECTANDRA Roland 



Nectandra chilana Berry, sp. nov. 



PLATE V Fig. 8 



Nectandrophyllum B, Engelhardt, Abh. Senck. Naturf. Gesell., Bd. 

 16, Hft. 4, p. 655, pi. 3, fig. 3, 1891. 



Complete material identical with the fragments recorded 

 from, Lota by Engelhardt were collected from the mine 

 dumps at Lota and prove to represent a new species of 

 Nectandra, as Engelhardt suspected. It may be described as 

 follows : 



Leaves of medium size, oblong ovate or obovate in general 

 outline, widest in the middle. Apex obtusely pointed. Base 

 cuneate. Margins entire, somewhat irregularly and slightly 

 undulate. Length about 10.5 cm. Maximum width about 

 3.8 cm. Petiole short and stout, expanded proximad, about 

 5 mm. in length. Midrib stout, prominent on the lower 

 surface of the leaf, somewhat flexuous. Secondaries stout, 

 prominent, variable in spacing, calibre, and course; four to 

 six pairs diverge from the midrib at irregular intervals, the 

 second or third one may be more prominent and ascending 

 but none merit being classed as lateral primaries; all are 

 camptodrome, and the tertiaries are largely immersed in the 

 substance of the leaf. 



This species appears to be common at Lota and is readily 

 distinguished from the other rather numerous species of 

 Lauraceae that have been described from the Tertiary coal 

 measures of Chile. It is very close to a number of existing 

 species of Nectandra of the tropics of South America. 



Genus GCEPPERTIA Nees 



Gceppertia Engelhardti Berry, sp. nov. 



PLATE IV Fig. 3 



Leaves of medium size, oval in general outline, widest at 

 or slightly above the middle, with full rounded entire margins 



