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

I46 THE RARITAN FLORA.
in the insular Cretaceous floras and also occurs in the South
Atlantic Coastal Plain. Supposed fruits are figured by Heer
(lot. eit. pL 4 _, f. 4b),
Occu.rrence.--Hylton Pits, Milltown,
Collectio_s.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
Genus LAUROPHYLLUM
Goeppert.
(Tertih,rfl. Java, _854,p- 45.)
LAUROPHYLLUM NERVILLOSU_ Hollick.
Lauro]_hylh*.m _wrviilosu_¢, Hollick, Man. U. S. Geol. Surv., vat.
5o:82, pl. 27, f. 6, 7, I9O7.
Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 36:255, 19o 9.
Proteoides daphnoge_wides ,t-_ollick, Ann N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol.
II:42o, pL d6, f. I, 3, 1898.
17escr@lion._Leaves of comparatively large size, oblong lan-
. ceolate in outline, about I5 cm. in length by about e.6 cm. ia
greatest breadth, w l)ich is about midway betweert the apex and
base. Apex acuminate. Base pointed, narrowly cuneate. Midrib
stout. Secondaries thin, close, parallel, branching from, the
midrib at angles not exceeding aiid usually somewhat less than
45 _, ascending, nearly straight or som,ewhat flexuons, connected
by transverse nervilles, branching and inosculating near the margin
where they merge in the tertiary venation.
This species was described originally from the terminal
moraine at Tottemrilte, Staten Island, and undoubtedly represents
transported Raritan materials. Three specimens are contained
ir_ the Milltown collection, and the writer has also collected
it from somewhat higher horizons south of New Jersey. It is
somewhat like La_rophylh_ la_weolati_,_ Newberry, but has a
markedly different venation and a less lanceolate outline, tt is
also quite' close to Laurophylh_l_ elegans Hollick, which is, however,
a more slender lanceolate leaf, with narrowly produced
apex and base and a somewhat coarser venation, with less close
and rr,_re curved camptodrome secondaries.
Occu,rre_ve.--Milltown.
Collectfons.--U, S, National Museum.
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY