texture and general appearance suggest that this may be a phosphatized fruit derived 

 from some more ancient deposit. If this be the case it is the only derivative fossil we 

 have seen. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 17. 

 PI. XVIII, fig. 15. 



Fruit with 6 elongate carpels, attached ventrally. 



Breadth 3 mm. Reuver. 



We have opened this specimen ; but the anatomy is too obscure for description. 

 It may be an unripe fruit. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 18. 

 PL XVIII, fig. 16. 



Fruit obovate acute mucronate, with a wide basal attachment ; surface irregularly 

 wrinkled and finely striate longitudinally. 



Length 4.3 mm., breadth 2.8 mm. Swalmen. 



We have seen four specimens of this fruit. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 19. 

 PL XVIII, fig. 17. 



Valve flat and slightly concave, broad below, narrowed above, bluntly angled at 

 the base, smooth externally ; internally divided lengthways by a slight ridge and finely 

 striated; margin inflexed and flattened. 



Length 13 mm., breadth 8 mm. Reuver. 



This appears to be a "germination valve" belonging to some large fruit which 

 we do not recognise. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 20. 

 PI. XVIII, fig. 18 a, b. 



Berry oval mucronate (distorted by pressure); scar of attachment prominent open 

 triangular ; style short and hard ; exocarp coriaceous thick, finely striate below, sparsely 

 tubercled above. 



Length 5.0 mm., breadth 3.8 mm. Swalmen. 



The lateral position of the attachment and style, seen in the photographs, is due 

 to flattening by pressure, as in shown by the transverse wrinkles. The berry is really 

 symmetrical. The triangular shape of the scar at the base appears to be original, and not 

 due to pressure. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 21. 

 PI. XVIII, figs. 19 a, b. 



We are quite uncertain whether these figures represent part of a hard bony fruit 

 or not. Brunssum. 



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