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Stat. 213. Saleyer [sland. K 



--t.n Pasir Pandjang, West coast of Binongka. Keef. 



Stat. 240. Banda. Lithothamnion-bank in iS — 36 m. 



St.a. 248. Rumah Lusi, North-point of Tiur Island. Reef. 



Stat. 2S2. Between Nusa Besi and the N.E.-point of Timor. Shallow water. 



St.it. 311. Sapeh Bay, East coast of Sumbawa. Keef. 



Stat. 513. East of Dangar Besar, Saleh Bay. Reef. 



. species was, among some other ones, classified by myself without mentioning the 

 structure, which was however afterwards described 1. c. For this reason, Hevdrich remarks in Ber. 

 der Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. igoi, p. 419, stating the fact that L. moluccense and L. Tamiense 

 are identic: "Da diese Pflanze nun erst nachtraglich vom Autor sic her gekennzeichnet 



ist, so gehort nicht FoSLlE, sondern 

 mir die Prioritat, denn ich hatte zwei 

 Jahre früher Lithophylluin Tamiense 

 30 ausgiebig beschrieben, dass ein Ver- 

 wechseln mit einer anderen Species 

 nicht stattfinden konnte; dies war aber 

 bei der FosLiE'schen ersten Beschrei- 

 bung recht wohl möglich". Cp. 1. c. 

 p. 418. However, if a provisional 

 description of a plant without des- 

 cription of the structure should induce 

 the consequence indicated by Heydrich, 

 several species could be disregarded, among these even species described by Heydrich himself. 

 Besides, in Melob. Arb. Heydr. p. 17 I have proved that the description of L. Tamiense is 

 quite incorrect as to structure. This seems to me to be a matter of deeper regret than a not 

 complete description of a species. Cp. above under Lithophyllum Bamlcri and L. oncodes. 

 The type specimen from the Moluccas is represented fig. 25. 



In regard to the forms of the species I here omit f. unispinosa Heydr. Cp. 1. c. p. 1, 

 t. I, fig. 4. This form 110 doubt only represents fragments of old specimens particularly of the 

 typical form. In addition, as to the form described by Heydrich as the typical one I remarked 

 1. c. : "Ich nehme L. moluccense f. typica in einer anderen Bedeutung als Heydrich 1. c. (L. 

 Tamiense), indem ich zu dieser Exemplare mit runden, subdichotomen oder unregelmassigen 

 Zweigen rechne, wahrend ich für die clichotom-facherförmige Form, welche Hevdrich 1. c. f. 

 txpica benennt, den Namen jlabelliformis vorschlage, entsprechend ahnlichen Formen bei einer 

 Reihe anderer Arten". Consequently I also here class these forms in the sense quoted. Of the 

 1 fiygmaea, described by Heydrich 1. c. as an indepentent species, I have certainlv not seen 

 any authentic specimen '). ( )n the other hand, I have had the opportunity of examining a 

 specimen from the Mauritius, which Heydrich afterwards also classed with his L. pygmaeum. 

 But, as I have shown in Melob. Arb. Heydr. p. 23, this specimen cannot be identic with 



Fig. 25. Lithophyllum moluccense Fosl. 



The type specimen (Herb. M. MÖBIUS); 

 A seen from above; B seen from below; nat. size. 



.10 1. c. only represent- a youüg specimen of f. typica or f. flabellifo 



