NOTES ON INDIAN CHAROPHYTA, 373 
6. CHARA GYMNOPITYS Braun. 
2, Depalpur, Indore State, 1914. S. P. Agharkar. 
11. Kuala Lumpur, Fed. Malay States, 1922, nos. 7056 & 710. H. P. 
Hacker. 
11*. Singapore Gardens Lake, 1896. T. B. Blow & (nos. 6915 & 9137) 
H. N. Ridley. 
Recorded by Braun from (10) Kolodyne Valley, Aracan. Some of the 
plants referred to as unidentified under the foregoing, no doubt belong to this 
species. 
Braun separated his C. Benthami from C. yymnopitys by the comparative 
number of stipulodes and branchlets, the former having the same number of 
each, the latter double as many stipulodes as branchlets, this character 
throwing them into different sub-sections of the //aplostephane, In his 
notes included in the * Fragmente," p. 118, he recognizes that this 1s unsatis- 
factory, the character being inconstant. It frequently happens that there 
are more stipulodes than branchlets, yet not double the number, and we have 
not been able to separate the specimens we have examined satisfactorily by 
this character. As far as I can at present see, I can only regard C. Benthami 
at most as a variety of C. gymnopitys. The specimens from Kuala Lumpur 
and Singapore would come under €. Benthami. In the whorls of the 
Depalpur plant which I have examined the stipulodes are rather more 
numerous. 
C. gymnopitys is widely distributed, occurring in Socotra, China, Japan, 
Philippine Islands ; Cape Colony ; N. America (New York and Michigan) ; 
Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. 
7. C. HypRopitys * Reichb. 
6. Gonda, Oudh, 1922, no. 8. G. O. Allen. 
C. hydropitys occurs also in Ceylon; N. Africa; and N. and S. America, 
the range being within 30° north and south of the Equator, except in 
N. America, where it runs up to just over 40° in the Eastern United States. 
II. Diplostephane. 
i. Haplostiche. 
8. C. CANESCENS Loisel. C. crinita Wallr. 
2, Quetta, Baluchistan, 1888, no. 3837. J. H. Lace, Hb. Watt. 
Recorded by Braun from (2) Baluchistan and Peshawar, 
C. canescens occurs in Afghanistan, Siberia, and China. Itis known from 
a great part of Europe, N. Africa (Gran Canaria and Egypt), and the 
N.E. United States. 
* Spelt Aydropithys by Reichenbach, 
