96 THE FLORA OF THE AMBOY CLAYS. 
but feel that all these plants are closely related, and that their nearest living 
allies are Hymenzea and Bauhinia. 
Novrw.—In connection with the discussion concerning the probable botanical affin- 
ities of Fontainea, | have concluded to append the following, kindly communicated to 
me by Prof. Lester F. Ward.—A. H. 
“In discussing the genus Fontainea Dr. Newberry mentions Sternberg’s figure of 
Haliserites Reichii and reproduces it on Pl. XLV, fig. 5. This figure is much smaller 
than any of the forms of Fontainea, but in Bronn’s Lethwa Geognostica, Pl. XX VIII, 
fig. 1, is represented a form much more like those of the Amboy Clays and nearly as 
large, this figure being only half the natural size. Bronn regarded it as a Chiropteris, 
but Schimper (Pal. Vég., p. 185) says that this plant more nearly resembles Halyme- 
nites, although on p. 178 of the same volume he refers it to Delesseria. I am inclined 
to believe that the form figured by Broun, at least, is a dicotyledon.” 
FonrTaIngEA GRANDIFOLIA Newb. nh. Sp. 
Pl. XLV, figs. 1-4. 
Leaves in part simple, unsymmetrical, lanceolate, petioled, partly in 
pairs united on a common petiole, winged by the decurrent blades; 
neryation fine, pinnate, apparently camptodrome. 
I have here represented all we have yet found of this remarkable 
and interesting plant. It will be seen that the specimens drawn are but 
fragments, and yet they reveal enough of the foliage to show that it is 
highly specialized and apparently distinct generically from any hitherto 
described. In each of the figures given we have represented the base of a 
pair of leaves which spring from a common petiole, and of which the out- 
side web descends to form a broad wing to that petiole. Apparently lower 
down on the branches which bear these double leaves are single ones which 
are unsymmetrically lanceolate in form, as shown in fig. 4, and it is possible 
that these leaves also formed pairs like the upper ones, but more distinctly 
separated. 
In the preceding generic description all has been said in regard to the 
botanical relations of this plant warranted by our present knowledge. 
Doubtless in the future more material will permit more positive statements 
on this subject. : 
Locality : Woodbridge. 
