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type: 6 Maze and Schramm (loc. cit. ) say 
their only collection was found cast onto the 
beach at "Capesterre.” It is accepted that the 
type of Helmintho cladia schrammi was washed 
onto the beach at Capesterre, Guadeloupe (16° 
N, 62° 40' W), in November, 1870, collected, 
and later numbered ”1572.” The collection was 
said by Maze and Schramm to be of only one 
specimen. Possibly, this specimen was divided 
(Boergesen, 1909) into at least three parts, one 
deposited in the Thuret herbarium, a second in 
the general cryptogamic herbarium of the Mu- 
seum d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), and a third 
6 The type for the species, Liagoropsis schrammi 
(Maze et Schramm) Doty & Abbott, is a specimen 
(Fig. 1) deposited in the Paris Museum. We have had 
the privilege, through the courtesy of Dr. Pierre Bour- 
relly, of studying a fragment of this material, and Dr. 
Bourrelly provided us with the photograph for the 
figure given here. The type for the genus is the species 
Liagoropsis maxima Yamada, and through the cour- 
tesy of Dr. Yukio Yamada we have had the privilege 
of studying the male type specimen and a female 
cotype specimen (Fig. 4) from his herbarium. 
in the Agardh herbarium. We accept the speci- 
men (Fig. 1) in the Thuret-Bornet herbarium 
at the Paris Museum as the holotype. An isotype 
(Fig. 2) has been located, as number 31962, in 
the Agardh herbarium, but no third part has 
been located. 
Nemalion schrammi (Maze et Schramm) 
Boergesen. 1909. Some new or little-known 
West Indian Florideae, I. Botanisk Tidsk. 30:4, 
pi. 1, text fig. 3 (obligate synonym, typonym). 
Nemalion longicolle Boergesen. 1909. Some 
new or little-known West Indian Florideae, K. 
Botanisk Tidsk. 30:8, pi. 2, text fig. 4 (faculta- 
tive synonym ) . 
Liagoropsis maxima Yamada. 1944:19 ff., 
figs. 5, 6 (facultative synonym and generic ho- 
lotype 6 * ) . Cotype illustrated here as Figure 4. 
Thalli up to 1 m tall, primarily pinnate ( Fig. 
3) to irregularly branched, becoming pseudo- 
dichotomously branched dis tally (Fig. 4); lightly 
calcified, soft and gelatinous; of multiaxial con- 
struction; central axes cylindrical, becoming 
compressed often up to 1 cm, or even 3.3 cm 
TABLE 1 
Sources of Information, the Related Collection Numbers, and 
Geographic Origins of the Collections* 
AUTHOR, CITATION, COLLECTION 
POSITIONS OF KNOWN COLLECTIONS 
NUMBERS, AND IDENTIFICATION 
Latitude 
Longitude 
1. Nemalion schrammi 
(Williams and Blomquist, 1947) 
07 9 35' S 
34° 55' W 
2. Helminthocladia schrammi 
(Maze and Schramm, 1870-77) 
16° N 
62° 40' W 
3. Nemalion schrammi 
(Boergesen, 1909 [#1614]) 
b 
r-'. 
64° 50' W 
4. Nemalion longicolle 
(Boergesen, 1909 [#1614]) 
--j 
o 
o 
Z 
64° 50' W 
5. Liagoropsis schrammi 
([M. Doty coll. #16954]) 
13° 14' N 
123° 46' E 
6. Liagoropsis maxima 
(Yamada, 1944) 
24° N 
121° E 
7. Liagoropsis maximaS 
( Desikachary, 1957) 
12° N 
93° E 
8. Liagoropsis schrammi 
( Subramanyan [M. Doty coll. #19686] ) 
1— * 
O 
© 
z 
92° 40' E 
9. Liagoropsis schrammi 
(Desikachary [M. Doty coll. #19687]) 
08° 48' N 
CO 
1— ‘ 
q 
trt 
* The material reported (Huerta, I960) as Nemalion schrammi seems to be, according to a communication from the author 
of that article and the material of the collection seen by the present authors, Helminthocladia calvadosi't (Lamx. ) Setchell. 
f Specimens not seen. 
