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DE. HEEE ON THE EOSSIL ELOEA OE BOVET TEACEY. 
notches ; of the seeds each rests in a separate cell : all these are peculiarities which are 
not met with in the fossil fruit (cf. Gartner, De Fructib. et Seminib. i. p. 290). 
In the ‘ Flora ’ I have enlarged upon the reasons why I united these fruits and seeds 
with Gardenia. The Gardenia lutea, Fres. and G. Thunhergii, L. til., have also ligneous 
fruits with a pericarp furrowed by similar longitudinal fibres, and they are also sup- 
ported on short and thick stalks that pass gradually into the fruit ; besides we remark, 
exactly in the same manner as in the fossil fruit of Konigsberg, represented in fig. 7 J, 
the placentas parietales forming ridges, which project from the inner surface, and which 
constituted most probably soft membranaceous partitions proceeding towards the inte- 
rior. The seeds of some Gardenias are arranged in series of which the number varies — 
in one fruit, known from the Brazils, in four, in others in more series ; the number of 
the placenta? also varies from two to six. Thus we have in G. Thunhergii five, in G. lutea 
six, while the seeds lie together in great numbers and are indistinctly arranged in 
series ; they are horizontal ; in the fossil fruit they are also horizontal, but generally 
somewhat obliquely turned towards the bottom, with the point dhected towards the 
base of the fruit. They are arranged in series, which are, however, but very seldom as 
distinctly marked as is the case in the pieces represented by Ludwig. I thought I 
could distinguish five series, but Ludwig mentioned six ; and if so, we should m these 
Luits assume three placentae, to each of which two series of seeds are fixed. Yet in the 
fruit from Konigsberg there seem to exist four placentae ; tw’o are visible in the ulterior 
of the one-half of the fruit of which the outside is represented in fig. 7 d, and two seem 
to be on the other half (7 a) ; one, which is very distmct, runs somewhat beyond the 
middle throughout the fruit, and another seems to have existed on the right side at the 
edge ; this latter, however, is indistinct and uncertain. In fig. 7 c I have represented 
the transverse section ; the line marks the place where the fruit was broken into halves : 
also from Salzhausen I got only fruits which were thus split in the middle into halves. 
I do not know upon what grounds M. Ludwig supposed that the fruit was dinded into 
tliree valves. It was certainly an indehiscent fruit. 
Coh. III. FOLYPETALM. 
Order I. UMBELLIFLOE^. 
Fam. Am PE LI DE^, Kunth. 
1. ViTis, Linn. 
34. ViTis Hookeri. (Plate LXIX. figs. 27, 28 & 29.) 
V. seminibus parvis, mm. longis, 3 mm. latis, brevibus, ovato-acuminatis, Isen- 
usculis, dorso convexiusculis, tuberculo chalazino rotundato magno. 
Bovey Tracey, m the clay of the 26 th bed. 
I have got but one single seed of this species, which, however, cannot be mistaken. 
It is very like those of the grape of Salzhausen, which A. Braun described as Vitis 
