The Chain of Life in Geological Time / A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants

by Sir John William Dawson

Fig. 161.—An Eocene Maple (Acer sextianus, Saporta). Aix.

Fig. 162.—A European Magnoli of the Eocene (M. dianæ, Saporta). Aix.

Fig. 163.—Flower and Leaf of Bombax sepultiflorum. Eocene of Aix.—After Saporta.

A European representative of the Silk-cotton-tree of the East Indies and Tropical America.