ALGJE— DE DICKIE. 395 



II. LAURENCIACEJ]. 

 CHAMPIA. 



Champia, Desv. in Ann. Mus. Par. xx. (1813), 139; Ktz. Tab. Phyc. xv. t. 84; J. G. Ag. Sp. 

 Alg. ii. 368 and iii. 303. 



A small genus of about ten species found on the shores of the Indian Ocean 

 (Ceylon, Scindh, Persia, Mauritius, South Africa), the Phillippine Islands, 

 Australia, and New Zealand, Sandwich Islands, and one species is reported 

 from Florida. 



C. compressa, Harv. Gen. South Afr. PI. 402 and Ner. Austr. 78, t. 30 ; 

 J. G. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 370 and iii. 305 ; Ktz. Tab. Phyc. xv. t. 84, f. 1. 



Soeotra. 



Distrib. South Africa, Mauritius, Ceylon, Australia, and New Zealand. 



III. GELIDIACE^. 



HYPNEA. 



Hypnea, Lamourx. in Ann. Mus. Par. xx (1813), 138; Ktz. Tab. Phyc. xviii. tt. 19-31; J. G. 

 Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 438 and iii. 560. 



A genus containing many closely allied species, and chiefly found in the 

 tropics and warmer regions of the southern hemisphere. 



H. hamulosa, Montg. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xiii. (1849), 344; J. G. Ag. 

 Sp. Alg. ii. 447 and iii. 563. 



Fucus hamulosus, Turn. Hist. Fuc. t. 79. 



Soeotra. 



Distrib. Ked Sea, Indian Ocean (Rodriguez), Cape of Good Hope. 



IV. CORALLINES. 



JANIA. 



Jania, Lamourx. in Soc. Philom. N. Bull. iii. (1812), 181-188; J. G. Ag. Sp. Alg. ii. 553. 

 A cosmopolitan genus of about twenty species. 



J. rubens, Lamourx. Hist. d. Polyp. Flex. 272 ; Harv. Phyc. Brit. t. 252. 



Corallina rubens, Ell. and Soland. Zooph. 123; Ktz. Tab. Phyc. viii. t. 80, f. 1. 



Soeotra. 



Distrib. The commonest species of the genus, and found on the European 

 shores of the Atlantic, the shores of the Mediterranean, the Pacific and Indian 

 Oceans. Probably it is also American. 



