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up to 20 cm. high sometimes even higher and moreover more tlabhy; commonly they 

 are also less ramified. The branches are somewhat spread out having the ramuli 

 placed sometimes in 3 sometimes in 2 rows. They are cylindrical somewhat bent 

 upwards, 3—4 times 

 the breadth of the 

 midrib, often even 

 more. These forms 

 have a great likeness 

 to the figures 8, 12 

 and 13 of pi. XXVII 

 and figures 10 and 12 

 of pi. XXVIII in Mme. 

 Weber van Bosse's 

 Monograph. These 

 specimens I propose 

 to call var. pluma- 

 rioides {Fig. 17). They 

 are the forms which 

 Mme. Weber van 

 Bosse has called f. 

 elegans, f. alternifolia 

 and f. amicorum, and 

 are referred by her to 

 the var. lycopodium, 

 This name I prefer 

 to use only for the 

 typical form (C. Lyco- 

 podium J. Ag.) which 

 is characterized by 

 having the long 

 cylindrical ramuli 

 placed in several 

 rows. Beautiful spec- 

 imens of this form 

 are present in Mme. 

 Weber's Herbarium 

 originating from the 

 Barbados, where they 

 were collected by Mil. Vickers. 

 this form. 



I cannot however lay too much stress on the fact that transitional forms 

 occur in great number between the var. typica and var. plumarioides and for a 



Fig. 18. C. cupressoides (Vahl) Ag. var. ßabellata n. var. 

 In deep water (about 20 m.) off Christiansfort (St. Jan). (About 1 : 1.) 



In Danish West India I have not met with 



