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existing species of Anisomeris Presl, Palicourea Aublet, 

 and Coprosma Forster. None of these genera are recorded 

 as fossils. Anisomeris comprises about 25 species of shrubs 

 ranging from Venezuela to Paraguay, but chiefly Brazilian. 

 Coprosma comprises about 40 species of shrubs and small 

 trees mostly oriental and extending from Java to New 

 Zealand and in Oceanica to Hawaii but found also on 

 Juan Fernandez and in Chile. Palicourea comprises over 

 100 species of shrubs confined to tropical America and 

 ranging from Mexico and the Antilles to southern Brazil. 



SEDIS 

 Carpolithus baulti sp. nov. 

 P. ATE VII Figs. 14, 15. 



Description. A large drupaceous fruit with a fibrous 

 or woody outer flesh and a large oval nearly smooth stone. 

 One specimen shows the stone lying within the fruit, the 

 outer covering having been carbonized. A second specimen 

 in the same piece of matrix shows an isolated stone. The 

 fruit appears to have been slightly wider distad. As pre- 

 served it is 2.8 cm. in length and 2.1 cm. in diameter. 

 The stone is slightly compressed 1.9 cm. in length, 1.4 .cm. 

 in width and i.i cm. in thickness. There is a well marked 



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scar on what I interprete as the proximal end of the stone 

 which if correct shows that the habit was orthotropous. 

 Whether one or several seeded cannot be determined. 



I am not prepared to suggest its botanical affinity since 

 the characters preserved scarcely warrant such an attempt. 



There are a variety of families with drupaceous fruits 

 and these often have the outer flesh fibrous to woody as in 

 the genus Mimusops or in the familiar case of the cultivated 

 almond. 



Named in honor of the collector, M. Charles Bault, 

 Ingenieur of the Corocoro United Copper Mines Ltd. 



An object slightly smaller but otherwise similar to the 



