64 THE FLORA OF THE AMBOY CLAYS. 
right angle and passing directly to or near the margin, thus dividing all the 
area of the leaf into quadrangular spaces. 
Only one specimen of this peculiar little leaf has been found. It 
presents the general aspect of Myrica, but is distinct from any other species 
with which it has been compared. The specimen figured is detective, and 
may be but an impertect representation of the species. It is, however, 
different from any other in the collection, and therefore it deserves to be 
mentioned. 
Locality: Sayreville. 
Myrica CINNAMOMIFOLIA Newb. n. sp. 
Pl. XXII, figs. 9-14. 
Leaves long-petioled, oblong-lanceolate in outline, sometimes panduri- 
form, abruptly narrowed to a point at base and summit, margins deeply 
lobed, lobes one, two, or three on a side, rounded, obtuse; nervation fine 
and regular, midrib straight, well-defined from base to summit; from this, 
at or near the base of the leaf, spring two strong lateral nerves which reach 
to or beyond the middle of the leaf or terminate in the lower main lobes; 
from the middle upward, secondary nerves are given off, which terminate 
in the lobes of the lateral margins and connect with each other by many 
inosculating branches. 
Of these peculiar leaves quite a number are contained in the collec: 
tion, but none is absolutely complete. Where nothing but the basal portion 
of the leaf is preserved, almost anyone would refer it to Cimmamomum, but 
all the cinnamons known have entire leaves, and yet there is an air about 
the plant that makes it difficult to believe that there is not some relationship 
between them. Some of the Myricas are not unlike these, and I would 
especially call attention to the resemblance between Myrica parvula Heer 
(FI. Foss. Arct., Vol. VII, p. 20, Pl. LV, figs. 1-3) and the leaf referred to 
this species and represented in this monograph on Pl. XIX, fig. 6; yet 
the two basilar side nerves so characteristic of Cinnamomum are not, to 
my knowledge, found in any species of Myrica, and hence the reference 
to that genus is made with great mental reservation and is strictly provi- 
sional. In fig. 9 of Pl. XXII simply the base of the leaf is figured, and 
