252 E. W. Berry — New Genus of Fossil Fruit. 



fined to the limited and otherwise peculiar region of New 

 Caledonia. 



Some years ago I received casts of an unknown fruit 

 from a sandstone in the Wilcox Eocene exposed at the 

 Butler Salt dome in Freestone County, Texas. These 

 defied determination for several years, and I could find no 

 recent fruits at all like them until 1919. At that time, in 

 collecting fruits on the Pacific coast of Panama I obtained 

 a recent form that was very close to the fossil fruit. In 

 seeking to determine the former at the National Herba- 



Fig. 1. — Calatoloides eocenicum Berry. 



Fig. 2. — Calatola fruit from Panama, both natural size. 



rium I found that it was identical with material from Mex- 

 ico and Costa Rica which Messrs. Standley and Stafford 

 were describing as a new genus, and referring it, with some 

 hesitation, to the family Icacinacese. This has since been 

 described as the genus Calatola, and three species — all 

 trees, are recognized. Two of these are Mexican and the 

 third is Costa Rican and Panamanian. 



The fossil form from the Eocene of Texas is clearly 

 allied to this recent Central American genus, but in view 

 of the incompleteness of the material, and the impossibil- 

 ity of verifying the identity in all particulars, it has 

 seemed best to propose the new genus Calatoloides for the 

 reception of the fossil form — the name chosen serving to 

 suggest an ancestral relationship to the existing forms, 



