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664 The Philippine Journal of Science 
CHARA AUSTRALIS R. Brown. 
A rather small form with numerous well-developed fruits and 
antheridia. The characteristic black cylindric-ellipsoid odspore 
is about 550 to 650 » long and 400 » broad, and shows 7 or 8 strong 
ridges. This is an important extension of the known range of 
this species, which has hitherto only been recorded from Austra- 
lia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji Islands, and 
(?) Tahiti. 
Indo-China, Annam, Nhatrang and vicinity, C. B. Robinson 
1167, March 11 to 16, 1911. 
CHARA FLACCIDA Braun. 
This has the ripe odspore, when viewed entire, of a trans- 
parent golden-brown, the character which serves to distinguish 
Chara flaccida from C. gymnopitys Braun. Braun and Nord- 
stedt in “Fragmente Monogr. Charac.” record C. flaccida from 
the Marianne Islands and Celebes. Nordstedt, in his account 
of the Characeae collected by the Gazelle expedition, refers to 
C. gymnopitys being found in both localities. If the two species 
are distinct, they must be very closely related. 
Marianne Islands, Guam, R. C. McGregor 592, October, 1911. 
The same locality, December, 1911, No. 191 (no collector’s name). 
