52 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Locality: Androvette pit. Collected by E. C. Jeffrey and Arthur 
Hollick. Specimens in Jeffrey collection, Cambridge, Mass. 
Genus DACTYOLEPIS gen. nov. 
Dactyolepis cryptomerioides sp. nov. 
Plate то, figs. 12, 13 
Remains consisting of cone scales composed of an upper and a 
lower segment, the upper one divided into as many as seven sub- 
divisions or finger-like processes, the lower one undivided; each of 
the upper subdivisions containing a fibrovascular bundle which is 
completely surrounded by a cordon of transfusion tissue; lower seg- 
ment also containing fibrovascular strands. 
This type of cone scale is of somewhat rare occurrence in the 
macerated debris from the Androvette pit. Specimens, X го, are 
shown in figs. 12, 13, Pl. 10. It is of particular interest because its 
general appearance suggests at once the living genus Cryptomeria 
and also certain species of the extinct genus Voltzia. We have not 
been able to make out any indication of the number or mode of 
attachment of the seeds. Most of the specimens are poorly pre- 
served; but in one instance we were able to obtain a section which 
afforded sufficient data to clearly indicate its affinities. Each of the 
finger-like processes of the upper segment in this specimen was found 
to contain a fibrovascular bundle completely surrounded by a cordon 
of transfusion tissue, thus betraying its araucarineous relationship. 
In the lower segment the fibrovascular supply was too much car- 
bonized to decipher, although its presence was quite apparent. 
It is evident, in spite of the external appearance, that these scales 
cannot be related to Cryptomeria; but their resemblance to certain 
species of J’oltzia may have considerable significance, and if there 
should be any close affinity between our specimens and the latter 
genus, this will have to be removed from the Sequoiineae, where it 
is generally supposed to belong, and placed in the Araucarineae, and 
such an eventuality would only be in accord with the general results 
which we have obtained in our study of the coniferous flora of the 
Kreischerville deposits. The conspicuous finger-like processes 
naturally suggested for these scales the generic name Dactvolepis, 
and the resemblance to Cryptomeria suggested an appropriate spe- 
cific name. 
