diff --git a/gtsam.h b/gtsam.h
index 6acc493fd..b16b58cc2 100644
--- a/gtsam.h
+++ b/gtsam.h
@@ -383,11 +383,6 @@ class Point3 {
   void serialize() const;
 };
 
-class OptionalPoint3 {
-  bool is_initialized() const;
-  gtsam::Point3 value();
-};
-
 class Rot2 {
   // Standard Constructors and Named Constructors
   Rot2();
diff --git a/gtsam/geometry/Point3.h b/gtsam/geometry/Point3.h
index db6fa4b6e..883e5fb62 100644
--- a/gtsam/geometry/Point3.h
+++ b/gtsam/geometry/Point3.h
@@ -194,9 +194,6 @@ namespace gtsam {
 /// Syntactic sugar for multiplying coordinates by a scalar s*p
 inline Point3 operator*(double s, const Point3& p) { return p*s;}
 
-// For MATLAB wrapper
-typedef boost::optional<Point3> OptionalPoint3;
-
 template<>
 struct traits<Point3> : public internal::VectorSpace<Point3> {};