New Marine Algae. 
BY 
E. M. HOLMES, F.L.S. 
With Plate XVIII. 
HE careful exploration of the shores of Natal, and 
JL especially of the mouth of the Kowie River, by 
Dr. Hermann Becker, has led to the discovery of many 
interesting marine Algae, and of the fructification of some 
imperfectly known species. Some of those sent have already 
been described 1 . 
I now propose to describe a few more species that Dr. Becker 
has recently sent for examination. One of the most interesting 
of these plants is a species which was published as long ago as 
J 842 by Hering under the name of Gelidium ciculeatum, but 
which has never, until now, been found with cystocarpic fruit. 
It bears so singular a resemblance in form and habit to 
Eucheuma spinosum , J. A g., that it was sent by Dr. Becker 
under that name. Agardh has recently (before he had seen 
cystocarpic fruit) referred it provisionally to the genus Coral - 
1 Enteromorpha rhacodes , Holmes, Grevillea, vol. 22 (1894''., p. 89 ; Phacelocarpus 
epipolaeus , Holmes, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb., 1894; Tyleiophora Beckeri , J. Ag., 
Till. Alg. Syst. VI, p. 36 ; Holmesia capensis , Till. Alg. Syst. Pt. VII, T. 1, 
Pig- 4, P- 39- 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. VIII. No. XXXI. September, 1894.] 
