ventral through the recurving of the dorsal valve ; exterior smooth or faintly striate at 

 the attachment ; interior of dorsal valve showing numerous strong sharp wrinkles. 



Length 1.8 mm., breadth 1.3 mm. Reuver, Brunssum. 



The peculiar flatness of the ventral face suggests that these specimens belong to 

 a fruit dividing into 2 cocci, which divide and are shed like seeds. The wrinkling of the 

 inner skin, independently of the outer coat, suggests that this skin is a testa belonging 

 to a single seed, which completely fills the cavity. Two germination valves may be 

 developed either in an endocarp or in a testa; but we have not yet seen anything 

 resembling these among recent plants. The four specimens figured are all that have yet 

 been found , they have been inverted in order to show clearly the attachment and the 

 hinged valves. The micropyle must have been near the pointed end, where the fruit opens. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 32. 



PI. XIX, figs. 15 a, b. 



Endocarp small hard rugose, with large basal aperture ; tending to split ventrally. 

 Length 3.0 mm., breadth 1.5 mm. Reuver. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 33. 



PI. XIX, fig. 16. 



Fruit small stalked, with 5 carpels which dehisce along the ventral face and at 

 the apex. 



Length 2.8 mm., breadth 1.6 mm. Reuver. 



This fruit appears to be unripe; but it is quite unlike any species already described. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 34. 



PI. XIX, fig. 18. 



Berry (unripe?) superior, locules 4, style 1 ; having at the base a closely adpressed 

 perianth of 4 narrowly ovate coriaceous leaves, more than half the length of the berry. 

 Length 1.5 mm. Reuver. 



The specimen is much flattened by pressure. 



CARPOLITHES Sp. 35. 

 PI. XIX, fig. 22. 



Bract ovate*acuminate, hard and thick, margin recurved, midrib strong and 

 equally prominent on dorsal and ventral face. 



Length 3.5 mm., breadth 1.7 mm. Brunssum. 



A woody bract apparently belonging to a fruit. The venation is so obscure and 

 faint that it is uncertain which end is the base. 



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