the micropylar opening is larger, so that we are unable with certainty to refer it to this 

 genus. Only one specimen has been found. 



PIROLACEAE? 



MONOTROPA? 

 PI. XV, figs. 24a, b. 



Fruit quadrate, divided longitudinally by 4 deep grooves; exocarp (?) tough 

 leathery, finely reticulate and wrinkled. 



Length 9 mm., breadth 7 mm. Reuver. 



We can say nothing definite as to the position of this fruit, as there is only 

 one specimen, which cannot be dissected. At first we took it to be an unripe capsule 

 of Monofropa; but we are uncertain as to its dehiscence. We now think that it may 

 be a 4*locular berry with tough leathery skin. The way in which the fruit has been 

 flattened by pressure suggests that it is many*seeded or contains soft seeds. 



MYRSINACEAE. 



MAESA Sp. 

 PI. XV, fig. 25. 



Fruit small globose (flattened and somewhat distorted) ; accrescent calyx covering 

 4 or \ length of fruit, thickened at rim and showing remains of teeth ; a blunt longi* 

 tudinal ridge on either side of calyx ; apex of fruit striate longitudinally, prolonged into 

 a pointed beak (since accidentally broken). 



Length 2.5 mm., breadth 2.5 mm. Brunssum. 



A unique specimen, which therefore we cannot dissect. The fruit appears to 

 belong to Maesa; but we have been unable to find any living species to agree with it. 

 The fruit, with its long beak, is almost identical in shape with those of M.japonica Mor. 

 and M. permollis Kurz (of Burma and Yunnan) ; but both these show longitudinal striae 

 on the calyx, as do nearly all the species of Maesa. In M. ramentacea var. ovata Clark 

 they are little marked; but M. ramentacea and its variety have no prominent beaks. Our 

 fossil has the calyx rough externally, and there are indications of the bases of glandular 

 hairs; the surface of M. permollis is covered by such hairs. 



The genus Maesa is now essentially tropical. 



ARDISIA Sp. 



PI. XV, figs. 26 a, b. 



Epicarp loose thin yellowish?brown, much wrinkled irregularly by shrinkage, 

 closely striate radially round the papillose sunk style, internally marked by the walls 



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