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The present leaf is practically indistinguishable from some of the 
leaves of the existing North American Diospyros virginiana. It is also like 
numerous fossil North American forms from a variety of geological horizons 
that have been identified as Diospyros brachysepala Al. Braun, a late 
Miocene European species. 1 Few, if any, of these represent the European 
type, but until they can be revised with ample comparative material I 
have not thought it proper to include any of them in the synonymy of 
this new species which is based on material contained in the collection from 
Joseph creek, although several of these occurrences probably represent 
this species. 
It differs from Diospyros brachysepala in its uniformly larger size, and 
more robust and less elongated form, in its fewer and less ascending second- 
aries. 
Order, Rubiales 
Family, capbifoliaceae 
Viburnum antiquum (Newberry) Hollick 
Viburnum antiquum Hollick, in Newberry, U.S. Geol. Surv., Mon. 35, 
p. 128, PI. 33, figs. 1, 2, 1898. 
This is the species that Newberry originally referred to the genus 
Tilia 2 and which Ward described as Viburnum tilioides. z In the United 
States it occurs in both the Lance and Fort Union formations. In British 
Columbia it is contained in the collection from Joseph creek, and in the 
collection from Kitsilano. It shows no features of the genus Tilia, and is, 
in all probability, correctly considered as representing the genus Viburnum. 
i HeeT, O., FI. Tert. Helv., vol. 3, p. 11 , PL 102, figs. 1-14, 1859. 
* Newberry, 3. 8., N.Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., Annals, vol. 9, p. 52, 1868. 
Ward, L. F., U.S. Geol. Snrv., Bull. 37, p. 107, PI. 50, figs. 1-3, PI. 51, figs. 1-8, PI. 52, figs. 1, 2, 1887. 
