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i6o/jt X 130-154/^, commonly a trifle longer than broad or oc- 

 casionally vice versa (sometimes only loo-i lO// in diameter in the 

 East Indian specimens). [Plate i, figure i ; plate 5, figure 



20; PLATE 6, FIGURES I, 2.] 



Type locality : "Antilles.'* Probable type specimens in 

 herb. Lamouroux, Institut Botanique, Caen, France, under the 

 manuscript name '^ Neomeris cespitosa'' \ probable co-types in 

 herb. Mus. Paris., under names '' Neonieris cespitosa'' and '^ N. 

 dianctosa Lmx." 



Distribution: ''Antilles," Richard; island of Fau (near the 

 island of Gebee), Dutch East Indies, Ar Weber-van Basse (appa- 

 rently associated with N. van Bosseae). 



The only specimens found in the Neomeris cover in herb. 

 Lamouroux are three plants attached to a slip of paper bearing 

 the inscription *' NeomejHs cespitosa'' in Lamouroux's hand, with- 

 out indication of locality or collector. They are doubtless the 

 three plants figured by Lamouroux in connection with the orig- 

 inal publication of Neomeris dianetosa^ though now occupying 

 slightly different positions in relation to each other. In the her- 

 barium of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris, in w^hich the 

 Richard herbarium \s incorporated, is a single plant in a pocket 

 marked ^^ Neomeris cespitosa^^ without collector or locality, and 

 also a group of seven individuals (six practically entire and one 

 a basal fragment) marked 'W. dumetosa Lmx.," also without indi- 

 cation of locality or collector. All of the specimens mentioned 

 resemble each other closely and all have probably come from the 

 one original collection. We examined all of these specimens in 

 the summer of 1904, but then neglected to note certain characters 

 which we have since found to be of importance in distinguishing 

 the species of Neomeris. Recently, however, through the gener- 

 ous courtesy of M. Hariot, we have enjoyed the privilege of mak- 

 ing a more critical study of the material in the Paris Museum. 

 Cramer saw an authentic specimen of Neomeris dumetosa and gave 

 an excellent description of it (with characteristic figures) in his 

 first paper " LJeber die verticiHirten Siphoneen besonders Neomeris 

 und Cymopolia," but in his second paper '*Ueber die verticiHirten 

 Siphoneen besonders Neomeris und Bornetella * ' he described 

 under the same name some of Harvey's specimens from the 

 Friendly Islands, which, we beh'eve, are specifically distinct. 



