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upwardly directed brandies inward and three or four longer 

 less oblique branches outward, the latter forking and forming 

 broad arches in the lateral lobes. One or two additional 

 lateral primaries on each side take their origin from the com- 

 mon point of divergence of the palmate or bilateral system of 

 venation of this species and are confined to the lower lateral 

 lobe on each side along the margin of which their branches 

 arch. 



This ornate and butterfly-like species of Bauhinia is not 

 uncommon in the sandy clays of the Upper Tuscaloosa near 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 1. Restoration of Bauhinia alabamensis Berry, 4/7 nat. size. 



Havana in Hale County, Alabama, but owing to the unsatis- 

 factory character of the matrix, which is too sandy for good 

 collecting, and also to the fact that the plant remains had 

 evidently been in the water a long time before entombment, 

 only fragmentary specimens were secured. These represent, 

 however, all parts of the leaf and are complete enough to serve 

 as an entirely accurate basis for the complete leaf shown in the 

 accompanying figure. 



This species is markedly distinct from any of the fossil 

 sj^ecies hitherto known. In size and general appearance it 



