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palmetto -like form (Sa6a/itcs) * , while the Laramie (Danian) 

 furnishes a number of species, some of which, represented by 

 both leaves and fruit, continue through the Eocene and help to 

 make up the abundant palm flora of the early Tertiary in this 

 country. 



The characters of fragments of leaves or rays are rarely 

 definite enough for specific or even generic diagnosis, and usage 

 has sanctioned their reference, in cases of doubt, to the genus 

 Flabcllaria of Sternberg, which, while including some anomalies, 



is properly used for those large flabellate leaves, which from the 

 nature of the remains it is impossible to refer positively to Sabal 

 {Sabalites), Geotiomifcs, etc., as is the ca.sc with the specimens be- 

 fore me. 



Flabellaria raagothiensis sp. nov.. Jigs, i & 2. — Frag- 

 mentary remains of large, palmetto-like leaves of considerable 

 consistency ; some specimens showing long parallel corruga- 

 tions, the finer structure being destroyed {^fig. 2) ; others finely 

 veined with .somewhat heavier veins 2 to 4 mm. apart {Jig. /). 



* Daw.son lias also described a Sdliat from tlic upper Crcla'rcoiis of Nanaimo. 



