In size and shape this closely resembles the cupule of C. lampongum Miq., 

 which grows in the Malay Peninsula at low elevations. 



CINNAMOMUM Sp. 2. 

 PI. VIII, figs. 23 a, b. 



Cupule of moderate size, funnebshaped, with contracted aperture. 



Length 6 mm., breadth 5 mm. Reuver. 



This cupule may be immature ; but it cannot belong to the same species as either 

 of the others. In shape and size it agrees with cupules of C. nitidum Blume in the Kew 

 Herbarium ; though these also seem to be immature. C. nitidum grows in India. 



CINNAMOMUM Sp. 3. 

 PI. VIII, figs. 24 a, b. 



A small campanulate cupule with thin*walled open cup, broken at the margin, 

 but showing remains of several sepals. 



Length 3 mm., breadth 5 mm. Reuver. 



This cupule corresponds closely in size and shape with an unearned species in 

 Kew Herbarium, obtained by Dr. A. Henry, in the province of Hupeh in China. 



HAMAMELIDACEAE. 



BUCKLANDIA STRIATA Sp. nov. 

 PI. VIII, figs. 25 a, b; PI. XIX, figs. 1. 



Capsula magna, ovata, extra basem versus valde striata, libera, bivalva, 

 valvis ad partem trientem sectis et ad fissuram valde incurvis. 



Capsule large ovate, strongly striate externally towards the base, free, 2*valved; 

 valves cleft for l /3 length and strongly infolded at cleft. 



Length 10 mm., breadth 8 + mm. Reuver. 



This fruit bears a good deal of resemblance to B. populnea R. Br. which we show 

 (figs. 26, 27) for comparison. It is however considerably larger, wider at the base, and 

 is strongly striate longitudinally. From other genera of Hamamelidaceae it is distinguished 

 by its capsule being 2*valved, not divided into 4 nearly equal lobes, and by the non* 

 adhesion of the calyx. 



Seed long ovate pointed, acutely 3*angled above, rounded below. 



Length 4.0 mm., breadth 2.1 mm. Brunssum. 



This seed is smaller than that of B. populnea and the surface of the testa shows 

 finer celkstructure; but in other respects the two correspond. The recent plant has seeds 

 of two sorts, winged and not winged; our fossil corresponds to the form without wings. 



As the seed was found at Brunssum and the capsule at Reuver, we cannot be 



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