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

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well preserved and characteristic, and can scarcely be anything
but the remains of a cycadean fructification.
Occurrence.--Locality unknown.
Collections.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
Genus PHYLLITI_S
Sternberg?
(F1. d. Vorw., vol. 1, i823, p. 390
PFP*'LLI'YES TRAPAFORMIS sp. nOV.
PIate XX, Figs. I, 2.
Descriptiom--Leaf very small, elliptical in outline, 6 ram. ir_
length, by 4 ram,. in greatest width, which is about hall way
between the apex and the base. Petiole missing (if ever preser_t ),
Base evenly rounded. Margin entire in the lower half of the
leaf, but broken to form five relatively large dentate teeth distad,
the 'central one, which is the largest and most prom,Snout,
eotrstituting the. pointed apex of the leaf. Outside lateral teeth
smallest, and separated by a rounded sinus from the inside lateral
teeth, which, in turn, are separated from the apical tooth by shallmv
angular sinuses. Venation delicate, consisting of a thin
midrib and craspedodrome secondaries branching from near the
base on each side and running to the lateral teeth. From these
there branch, from near their po.int of insertion on the outer
side, camptodrome veins of the same calibre. Shorter, inwardlydirected
veins.brkneh higher up. There are one or two thinner
, eamptodrorrm margiaal veins deployed along the lower outer
margin of the leaf.
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