break apart, and the primary columns separate. Clathrus Treubei 

 was recently described by Dr. Bernard, from Java. At Upsala there 

 are alcoholic specimens collected in Java by E. Nyman and an old 

 specimen of the same collection was discovered at Berlin to be a new 

 species of Laternea (pentactina). 



Fig. 74a. 



CLATHRUS CRISPATUS. 

 (Egg.) 



CLATHRUS PUSTLLUS (Fig. 73). Color, bright ruby red. 

 Meshes subequal above, elongated below. Branches of the receptacle 

 wrinkled. This species is only known from the original collection 

 made on the Swan River, Australia, more than sixty years ago. 

 What is apparently a very good figure of it (Fig. 73) was given 

 by Berkeley, though it seems to me the branches of the receptacle 

 are more slender than is borne out by the specimens at Kew. 



CLATHRUS CAMERUNENSIS (Fig. 74). This species was described 

 from Camerun, Africa, and figured. The figure appears to be very much (he 

 same as Clathrus pusillus from Australia, but the African plant is said to be 

 dark olive and the Australian red. The type is in alcohol at Berlin. It seems 

 to be an Ileodictyon with tubular arms. The most marked feature of it to me 

 is the reduced diameter of the upper bars. 



CLATHRUS CRISPATUS (Fig. 74a). This species is only known from 

 the elevated regions of Ceylon and is imperfectly known from there. It was 



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