406 



MEMOIRS OF THE KEW YORK BOTAI^ICAL GARDEN 



The original specimen upon which the generic identification 

 was based is represented by the specimen figured on plate 36. 

 The more complete specimen, represented by figure 1 on plate 

 37, gives a better idea of the salient characters of the outline and 

 main nervation; but the finer nervation, unfortunately, is not 

 discernible. The specimens are comparable with leaves of sev- 

 eral existing species of figs, especially with those of the general 

 type represented by Ficus Krugiana Warburg, a sjDecies native 

 in the West Indies (see plate 45) ; and among the hundreds of 

 different fossil leaves that have been referred to the genus Ficus 

 are a number that represent the same general type as ours ; in 

 fact, the number of comparisons that might be made, with exist- 

 ing and extinct species, is so numerous as to render them of no 

 value in attempting to arrive at any satisfactory conclusions in 

 regard to specific relationship or geologic age. 



AMiether or not these leaves and the fruit previously de- 

 scribed under the name Ficus inter glacialis may belong to one 

 and the same species, must, of course, remain an open question 

 until such time as the two may be found actually attached to the 

 same branch ; hence in the meantime I liave given to each a dis- 

 tinctive specific appelation. 



ORDER RAX ALES 



Family Menispermaceae 



Genus Cehailia Forskal 

 Cebatha multiformis n. sp. 



Plate 38, figures 1-6; plate 39, figures 1-3 



^'Cehafhn (Cocculus) n. sp." Hollick, Summary Rept. {loc. 

 cit.), p. 134. 



Leaves varying in shape and size, rounded subtriangular in 

 shape, some slightly uns3^llmetrical, 6 to 9 centimeters in length 

 by about the same in maximum width, broadest below the 

 middle, rounded below, broadly truncate or curved and slightly 

 oblique at the base, and occasionally abruptly cuneate in im- 



