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Description: On August 3, 1982 a small squid was collected opposite “Trans World Radio” at Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles). It was kept in a tank for several hours before it died. The species was identified as Pickfordiateuthis pulchella Voss, 1953, hitherto only known from the Florida Keys, U.S.A. According to Voss (1953) it was probably confined to the geographical area represented by the Florida Keys. ABBOTT (1974) mentioned a distribution from southeast Florida to Panama without refering to literature other than Voss (1953). The specimen from Bonaire, a male, differs from the figure of the holotype (a female) mainly in having proportionally shorter tentacles and the posterior end less bluntly tapered. It agrees well with the male paratype, figured by Voss (1953: fig. 3). The measurements of the specimen are: mantle length 16.0 mm, width 6.9 mm and length of head 7.1 mm. The pigmentation of the dorsal side of the head consists of chromatophores, which are larger and darker than those on the ventral side. The pigmentation on the dorsal side of the mantle is less prominent and consists of more diffuse and smaller spots. The ventral side of the mantle is hardly pigmentated with very small dots.

Description: Four species considered to be newly found drifting ashore are described and illustrated: Sargassum natans (L.) Børg., Champia parvula (C. Ag.) Harv., Crouania attenuata (C. Ag.) J. Ag. and Callophyllis laciniata (Huds.) Kütz. In addition some notes are made on new records of Pogotrichum filiforme Reinke, Leathesia difformis (L.) Aresch. and Punctaria latifolia Grev.

Description: Anthodus paniculatus Martius, reduced to a synonym of Hemiangium excelsum (H.B.K.) A. C. Smith by A. C. Smith, is reestablished here as Hemiangium paniculatum (Mart.) A. M. W. Mennega. H. excelsum in the present sense is now restricted to C. America, whereas H. paniculatum occurs in S. America.

Description: Three new species of Salacia are described.\nSalacia bullata spec. nov., a liana, characterized by bullate leaves, was collected in Brazil, Territorio Amapa. It comes closest to S. amplectens. A.C. Smith\xe2\x80\x99s key (1940) should be amended to include a new group \xe2\x80\x98Amplectentes\xe2\x80\x99. This group, containing S. bullata and S. amplectens would be near \xe2\x80\x98Arboreae\xe2\x80\x99.\nSalacia alwynii, spec. nov., a vining species comes from Peru, Maynas, and is characterized by very large leaves and large cauliflorous flowers. It belongs to the species group \xe2\x80\x98Ellipticae\xe2\x80\x99 sensu Smith. It was also collected in Venezuela.\nSalacia paradoxa spec. nov. is a liana collected in Brazil along the Manaus-Caracarai road. Its long leaves are narrowly elliptic, its flowers are extremely small. In leaf characters it is strikingly similar to S. solimoesensis of Smith\xe2\x80\x99s species group \xe2\x80\x98Ellipticae\xe2\x80\x99, the shape of the disk, however, suggests the species group \xe2\x80\x98Crassifoliae\xe2\x80\x99. Specimens with fruits, collected in western Brazil may belong either to S. paradoxa or to S. solimoesensis.

Description: A description is given of two new species in the genus Pristimera, P. dariense from Panama and P. caudata from Suriname. P. dariense differs by its flattened disk from the other New World species of the genus, but would fit in the subgenus Trochantha N. Hall\xc3\xa9 known from Africa.\nCuervea crenulata sp. nov. is a species collected in Brazil, Minas Gerais. Another species in Cuervea, C. mitchellae (Johnst.) A.C. Smith is considered as a synonym of C. kappleriana.\nHylenaea unguiculata sp. nov. is a new species from Suriname. The material on which the new species is based was at first erronously ascribed to the genus Tontelea with remarkably similar flowers.

Description: Herbs (sometimes saprophytic), shrubs, lianas or trees. Stipules absent but stem sometimes provided with a pair of glands at the nodes. Leaves simple, entire, usually spirally arranged, sometimes alternate, (semi)decussate or verticillate, sometimes scale-like or absent. Inflorescence usually raceme-like and unbranched, (supra- or extra-)axillary and/or terminal, sometimes thyrsoid or fasciculate, rarely flowers solitary. Bracts present; bracteoles basal, rarely ( Salomonia, Epirixanthes) absent. Flowers bisexual, more or less zygomorphous, rarely actinomorphous. Sepals 5, free and quincuncial, or the lower (abaxial) 2 connate, sometimes all connate, subequal or the lateral ones larger and then often wing-like (alae) and petaloid. Petals 3 or 5, free or variously united, occasionally also with the calyx, usually adnate to the base of the staminal tube or the filaments, subequal or more often unequal with the lower petal often keellike and frequently pouched, lobed, or crested. Stamens 2\xe2\x80\x9410, usually 8, filaments usually more or less connate except between the upper stamens, often adnate to the petals; anthers basifixed, tetra- or bi-, rarely trisporangiate, 1- or 2-locular, opening by a single and often oblique pore or by a longitudinal introrse slit. Ovary superior, usually 2-locular but occasionally 1-, 3-, 5-, 7- or 8-locular, sessile or sometimes stipitate; style simple but often variously dilated or lobed at apex, usually articulate with the ovary and nearly always deciduous in fruits. Ovules 1 per cell and subapical, or (in Xanthophyllum) 4\xe2\x80\x94more in a 1-locular, bicarpellate ovary with 2 parietal placentas, anatropous, bitegmic and crassinucellate. Fruit various, a berry, capsule, samara or drupe.\nDistribution. About 15 genera and over 1000 species, widespread in temperate and tropical regions of the world, especially well-developed in South America and South Africa. In Malesia 6 genera, of which Polygala and Securidaca (not in Australia) are cosmopolitan, Xanthophyllum and Salomonia Indo-Australian, Epirixanthes Indo-Malayan. The sixth genus is Eriandra which belongs to the tropical American tribe Moutabeae, of which 3 genera are known in South America; Eriandra occurs in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and represents a marked example of disjunct, tropical trans-Pacific affinities.

Description: The two species of Eragrostis naturalized in the Netherlands, formerly referred to as E. poaeoides and E. multicaulis, should be called E. minor and E. pilosa. Both appear to be naturalized on a larger scale than was indicated in the Atlas of the Netherlands Flora i. They have spread extensively in very recent years. E. minor is, apart from its occurrence in the province of Zeeland, principally a railway companion. E. pitosa is chiefly a plant of treaded sites, occurring in joints of pavements and incidentally on heavily compacted soil. In Zeeland however, E. minor appears to be more succesfull in this kind of habitat than E. pilosa. Originally, E. multicaulis was accepted as separate from E. pilosa. Because of the variation in the specimens of the type collection E. multicaulis has been lectotypified: Eragrostis multicaulis Steudel, Syn. PI. Gram, i (nov. 1854), p. 426 [syn. Glyceria airoides Steudel, I.e. (apr. 1854), p. 287, non (Koeler) Reichenb. 1829]. Lectotype: Burg, s.n., \'Poa suzumenokatabira\', in L (908.87-2116, upper specimen). Differences between E. multicaulis and E. pilosa are discussed. It is concluded that the same variation occurs in the Netherlands as is observed elsewhere, and that no features can be considered sharply differentiating between both supposed taxa. The opinion of Koch (1974) that both belong to the same taxon, viz. E. pilosa (L.) Beauv. var.pilosa, is subscribed to. Establishment of E.pilosa in the Netherlands has probably followed after introduction and cannot be interpreted as a natural shift of this species\' northern boundary from N. France to the Netherlands.

Description: Tragopogon dubius Scop, has been found in 8 localities in the Netherlands, all from 1955 onwards, in dunes, and along roads and railway tracks. This might be caused by a natural extension of its area from North France northwards. T. dubius and T. porrifolius differ from T. pratensis in the dark coloured styles and the swollen peduncles, and slightly so in characters of habit and fruit; from each other they differ in the colour of the ligules and in the number of involucral bracts.

Description: Een nieuwe combinatie in Atriplex. Bij de bewerking van het geslacht Atriplex voor de 20e editie van Heukels\xe2\x80\x99 Flora van Nederland bleek het nodig te zijn om een nieuwe combinatie te maken. Atriplex prostrata Boucher ex DC. var. longipes (Drejer) Meijden, comb. nov. (Atriplex longipes Drejer, Flora excursoria Hafniensis, 1838, p. 107).