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se Galaxaura, I have ascertained that this species occurs pretty 

 common in our southern seas. In the structure of frond the 

 plant is not particularly distinct from G. falcata Kjellm. In 

 the general appearance of frond and the measurements of the 

 segments both have their own peculiarities. 



G. frutescens Kjellm. "has been reported by Heydrich 1 * from 

 Loochoo, the specimen being now kept in the herbarium of the 

 Botanical Museum of Berlin. This species has been known from 

 Bahama Island only and nobody beside him has reported it 

 from the Pacific. I have examined the specimen and suspected 

 it to belong either to the present species or to G. falcata. 



It is to be noted here, however, that some species give 

 evidences of the ambiguity of the two groups Fruticulosae and 

 Arborescentes proposed by Kjellman. The distinctions between 

 G. tenera, G. frutescens and G. arborea are especially frequently 

 puzzling. I am afraid Kjellman has to much multiplied the 

 species of this form. 



Locality. Goto Islands (!), Koshiki Islands (!), Satsuma 

 Prov. (Dr. T. Inui). Botel Tobago (T. Kawakami, No. 28, 

 T. Aoki, No. 17). 



Distribution. Australia. 



Galaxaura veprecula Kjellm. 



Floride-slagtet Galaxaura, p. 80, Tab. 16, fig. 17-33, Tab. 20, 

 fig. 20. 



? = Galaxaura angustifrons Kjellm.: I.e., Tab. 15, fig. 11-25, Tab. 



20, fig. 27. 

 ? = Galaxaura canaliculata Heydr.: Algenflora von Ost-Asien 

 (Hedwigia, XXXIII, p. 267). 



I identify a specimen from Botel Tobago with the present 

 species. It has a close affinity with G. hysterix Kjellm. which 

 is founded on a fragmentary specimen collected in Goto Island, 

 Japan. The latter is diagnosed to have a papillose process on 

 each of the epidermal cells, while the present has it only scat- 

 teredly. The other characters pointed out by the describer as 



1) Ber. d. deutsch bot. Gesellsch. Bd. XXV, p. 103 1907. 



