ALBERT

Description: A supplementary survey is given of endo- and ectoparasites collected from wild mammals in the Netherlands.

Description: INTRODUCTION\nWhen in December 1960 the R.A.O.U. Checklist Committee was reorganised and the various tasks in hand were divided over its members, the owls were assigned to the author. While it was first thought that only the Boobook Owl, the systematics of which have been notoriously confused, would need thorough revision and that as regards the other species existing lists, for example Peters (1940), could be followed, it became soon apparent that it was impossible to make a satisfactory list without revision of all species.\nIn this paper the four Australian species of Strigidae are fully revised, over their whole ranges, and the same has been done for Tyto tenebricosa. Of the other three Australian Tytonidae, however, only the Australian races have been considered: these species have a wide distribution (one of them virtually world-wide) and it was not expected that the very considerable amount of extra work needed to include extralimital races would be justified by results.\nConsiderable attention has been paid to geographical distribution, and it appears that some species are much more restricted in distribution than has generally been assumed. A map of the distribution of each species is given; these maps are mainly based on material personally examined, and only when they extended the range as otherwise defined, have I made use of reliable field observations and material published but not seen by me.\nFrom the section on material examined it will be easy to trace the localities; where other information has been used, the reference follows the locality.\n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nThe revision was carried out, besides the Western Australian Museum,

Description: This is a taxonomic revision of the genus Capparis in South and Southeast Asia, Malesia, Australia, and the Pacific. In this area, four sections are distinguished: 1. sect. Capparis, monotypic with C. spinosa, 2. sect. Sodada, monotypic with C. decidua, 3. sect. Monostichocalyx in a new circumscription containing most of the species formerly included in sect. Eucapparis, with about 65 species in the area under revision, 4. sect. Busbeckea, with 12\xe2\x80\x9414 species in all.\nOf the 79 species recognized, 7 are new, viz. C. cataphyllosa, cinerea, koioides, monantha, pachyphylla, rigida, and rufidula, and 2 are elevated from varietal to specific rank, viz. C. annamensis (C. grandiflora var. annamensis Baker \xc6\x92.) and C. pranensis (C. thorelii var. pranensis Pierre ex Gagn.). Of the 11 subspecies recognized under C. acutifolia, micracantha, and sikkimensis 9 are newly described or new in rank, like 3 out of the 8 varieties under C. loranthifolia, micracantha, and spinosa. Under C. brachybotrya, 2 formae have been maintained, under C. floribunda, is reduced. Three species, C. dielsiana with 2 varieties, C. longipes, and C. muelleriana, have been recorded as incompletely known besides.\nChapters on characters and internal relationships, and plant-geographic remarks have been added. All type specimens are cited with the names based on them, the other collections only as far as they are important for the knowledge of the distribution. Notes dealing with deviating specimens, nomenclatural problems, related species in Africa, &c. are given under the taxa.\nStarting from the idea that solitary large flowers and a beaked ovary with relatively many carpels, the presence of empty spiny bract-like cataphylls at the base of a shoot, and straight thorns are primitive characters, an attempt has been made to devise a subdivision of Sect. Monostichocalyx into 7 tentative Groups to show their natural interrelationships and possible derivation.\nIt is regarded as most likely, that the genus, as represented in the area under revision, originated in southern India/Ceylon and/or Gondwanaland, and migrated into Australia, and later through the Indo-Chinese Peninsula to the northwest and northeast, and into Malesia.\nAn index to numbered collections has been added. Hypselandra Pax & Hoffm. (syn. Meeboldia Pax & Hoffm.) is reduced to Maerua. B.S. Sun\xe2\x80\x99s new taxa from China are discussed in an appendix.

Description: The author gives a recapitulation of the families of the Aphyllophorales. He is inclined to recognize 21: the families he is not (yet) prepared to uphold are discussed. The synonymy of the order and the families above the rank of genus is listed, but it is avowedly incomplete. The treatment of each family does not go further than the mention of the included genera, but through selected references cited for each genus in a special list, an introduction to the separate genera is provided. An introductory chapter contains some general remarks and discusses a number of terms used in connection with the treatment of the families. New taxa are, Brachybasidiales, Hericiaceae, Punctulariaceae, Asterostromatoideae, Pteruloideae, while the name Septobasidiales Couch is validly published and the new combination Serpula mollusca (Fr.) Donk is made.

Description: Some genera of Geoglossaceae, characterized by colourless spores and positive iodine reaction of the ascus pore, are compared with respect to the structure of the stipe. Ochroglossum is reduced to the synonymy of Microglossum. Mitrula is regarded as a monotypic genus. The generic name Heyderia is restored. Thuemenidium is reintroduced to replace Corynetes. Nothomitra is proposed as a new genus to accomodate N. cinnamomea, a new species.

Description: Galeopsis pubescens Bess, has established itself near Oranjewoud (prov. Friesland); it was found there for the first time in 1910.

Description: Dates of unfolding of leaves and development of male inflorescences of an about 150 years old copper beech in the Leyden Botanical Garden.

Description: In the northern part of Belgium, Dryopteris tavelii is mostly found in young plantations of Pinus in the Campine and Flemish districts. As some of these localities are situated near the Dutch border, the author expects that the species may also occur in similar habitats in the Netherlands parts of these districts.

Description: An enumeration of the species of Erodium, found in the Netherlands. E. glutinosum Dum. and E. cicutarium (L.) L\xe2\x80\x99H\xc3\xa9rit. are native; E. malacoides (L.) L\xe2\x80\x99H\xc3\xa9rit., E. crinitum Carolin, E. botrys (Cav.) Bertol., E. gruinum (L.) L\xe2\x80\x99Herit., E. ciconium (L.) L\xe2\x80\x99Herit., E. stephanianum Willd., E. aethiopicum (Lamk.) Brumh. & Thell., and E. moschatum (L.) L\xe2\x80\x99Herit. are adventive species.

Description: Herba perennis. Rhizoma breve, crassum, lignosum, squamis castaneis striatis obtectum. Culmi elati, usque ad 3 m alti, 2\xe2\x80\x944 mm crassi, teretes, glabri, usque ad apicem foliati et fere per totam longitudinem in vaginis foliorum absconditi. Folia culmum superantia, cinereo-viridia, tenacia, margine involuta, e basi dilatata 6\xe2\x80\x949 mm lata in acumen longissimum apice setaceo-caudatum scabrum gradatim angustata; vaginae longae, inferiores spadiceae vel atrofuscae, superiores stramineae; ligula angusta, rotundata vel in foliis superioribus triangularis, glabra, castanea. Inflorescentia paniculata, erecta, perangusta, (15\xe2\x80\x94) 30\xe2\x80\x9450 cm longa, 1\xe2\x80\x942(\xe2\x80\x943) cm lata, interrupta, e fasciculis 5\xe2\x80\x947 panicularum partialium elongato-oblongarum satis densarum constructa; rami 2\xe2\x80\x943-nim fasciculati, stricte erecti, inferiores ad 8 cm, superiores ad 2 cm longi. Bracteae inferiores foliis similes, inflorescentiam superantes, erectae, longe vaginantes, superiores gradatim decrescentes. Spiculae numerosae, oblongae, c. 7 mm longae, 2 mm latae, uniflorae, breviter pedunculatae; pedunculi scabri. Glumae 4, difformes: exteriores 2 vacuae, lanceolatae, acutae, acuminato-aristatae, carinatae, carina scabrae, resp. et 7 mm longae, nucem superantes, interiores 2 ovatae vel oblongo-ovatae, concavae, apice obtusae, margine apice ciliolatae, 4 mm longae, florem hermaphroditam arcte includentes. Perigonium nullum. Stamina 4; filamenta post anthesin persistentes, elongata, inter se et cum stylo intertexta, basi nucis affixa, nucem maturam delapsam retentia. Stylus tenuis, c. 3 mm longus, stigmatibus 3 filiformibus c. 8 mm longis. Nux dura, obtuse trigona, fusiformis, apice basique acuminata, laevis, demum nigra, nitens, 4\xe2\x80\x945 mm longa, 1\xc2\xbd \xe2\x80\x942 mm lata; endocarpium transverse annulato-sulcatum, sulcis 5\xe2\x80\x946.\nHAWAII. Lanai, east of Munro trail and north of Lanai-hale, in shrubby rain-forest at 3000 ft, Sept. 4, 1963, end of flowering season, culms up to 3 m high where supported by neighbouring bushes, Otto & Isa Degener 28431 (L, type); West edge of Munro trail at Lanai-hale, open scrubby fog-belt at 3370 ft, July 23, 1963, end of flowering season, forming 3\xe2\x80\x9410 dm wide tussocks with 3\xe2\x80\x9420 dm, erect-spreading culms, Otto & Isa Degener 28430 (L); Lanai-hale, in shrubby rain-forest at 3370 ft, young fl., Jan. 7, 1964, Otto & Isa Degener 28686 (L).