Bulletin 3. The flora of the Raritan Formation, 1911 - State of New ...

124 THE RARITAN FLORA.
D_scription.--Leaves ovate in outline, 8 cm. to I3 cm. in
length by 4 cm. to 7 cm. in, breadth, petiolate. " Apex extended,
acute. Base rounded or somewhat descending. Margins entire.
Principal veins 3, from the base, the midrib being the stoutest
and slightly flexuous. The lateral veins diverge at angles of
about 45 ° and curve upward, traversing somewhat, too.re than
tile basal half of the leaf and' connecting with branches from tile
lowest pair of camptodrome secondaries of which there are
several alternating pairs which branda from the midrib at a
wider angle. The laterals give off on the outside 8 to IO campto&one
veins. Quadrangular areoles formed by nearly straight
transverse nervilles" fill all of the intervening space.
This species is very close to the same author's Ficus I/Voolsoni, .
which is a much less elongated comparatively broader leaf, often
with a cordate base in consequence.
The very. appropriate name ovatc_ is antedated by Ficus ovata
Don (18o2-o3), so that it becomes necessary to rename the
Raritan species.
Occurrence.--Woodbridge, Milltown.
Collections.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
Fmt_s Woo_,so_i Hollick.
Plate XII, Figs, ], 2.
Ficus Wool_oni Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 12 : 33, p2.
2, f. z, 2c, I892; Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sck, vol. II : 419,
pi 37, [. 9, 1898; U. S. Geol. Surv, Mon. 50: 59, pl.
II, f, 5, ,6, 19o7.
Smith, Geol. Coastal Plain in Ala., 348, 1894.
Newb., F1. Amboy Clays, 7o, pl. 20, [. 3; pl. 23, /. z-d,
1896,
Berry, Bull. N, Y. Bot, Garden, vol. 3: 74, pl. 47, [. 7, 19o3;
Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 33: I72, 19o6; Ann. Rept. State
Geol. (N. J.) for 19o5; 139, I9O6.
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY