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the lateness of the season accounted for their absence. Polysiphonia 
obscura was listed by Mr. Marquand as new to Britain ; in 1014 1 
found it in a different locality, and 1921 in still a third habitat. 
Ctenosiphonict hypnoides was found again in 1921 at Moulin Huet, 
another locality with similar conditions to those of the former 
gathering—in chinks of rock holding sand and particles of shells so 
forming a nidus for other sporelings. 
The following are new to Guernsey :— 
Ceramiuni pennatum Crn., found by Lady Mansell in 1840—the 
only record for the Channel Islands. 
Cercimium gracillimum Harv. gathered at Pleinmont. It is an 
exceedingly delicate and fragile plant and most difficult to “lay out,” 
as the line branches become easily entangled. It is of rare occurrence 
along the southern coast of England as as far north as Cromer, also 
at Kilkee in Ireland. 
Gracilaria confervoides Grev. var. procerrima Batt. grows side 
by side with the species, from which it is quite distinct, being- 
characterized by very long wavy branches with short subulate ramuli. 
This variety is new to the Channel Islands. 
C. Boergesenii Petersen, is another addition to the Channel 
Islands. It was listed for the first time as a member of the British 
Marine Flora by A. D. Cotton in his Clare Island Survey (in Proe. 
K. Irish Acad. xxxi. part 15, 1912), who points out that it had 
probably been overlooked or confused with C. circinatum ; the latter 
has descending cortical filaments only, while in C. Boergesenii they 
are both ascending and descending. It has been so far recorded from 
the Faroes, Iceland and Clare Island. 
Antithamnionella scirniensis mihi, found in several localities. 
See Journ. Bot. lx. 346-50, figs. 1-6 (1922). 
SHOBT NOTES. 
Galbulimima or Himantandra. As indicated in Journ. Bot. 
1922, 137, Himantandra is a synonym of Galbulimima (Internat. 
Pules, Art. 38). Hence the two new species from New Guinea 
described under Himantandra by Messrs. E. G. Baker and C. Nor¬ 
man (Journ. Bot., May 1923, Suppl. p. 2) should be known as Galbu¬ 
limima nitida and G. parvifolia respectively. The fact that the 
family was named Himantandracece by Diels is immaterial so far as 
the name of the genus is concerned; names of families are formed 
from the names (or synonyms) of their type-genera, not vice versa .—- 
T. A. Sprague. 
Koet.tape and Sentol (p. 172).—I note Mr. Merrill’s defence 
of his position with respect to these two words. There is obviously 
some confusion in the minds of modern Javanese on the subject. In 
the Malay peninsula Kechapi (not Kuchapi, i. e. Koetjape of the 
Dutch) is only applied to the half-wild sour-fruited tree, handoricum 
radiatum King, and Sentol to the sweet-fruited cultivated plant, S. 
indicum ; and the Malays and Blume probably are correct in separating 
