300 CHARACEE INDLE ORIENTALIS. 
tegentibus ; seminibus ovatis vel oblongis, coronula breviuscula lata 
papillis subdivaricatis, fasciis 14-15. 
Ch. polyphylla, 4. Br. in. Regensb. bot. Zeit. 1835. p. T0. (sed nunc sensu latiori.) 
a. Ceylonica, rigidior et nitidior; aculeis sparsis; foliis verticillorum 
10-12, articulis 9-12, geniculo foliorum infimo sterili; seminibus 
majoribus. 
Ch. pham Klein ap. Willd. in Act. Acad. Berol. 1801-2, p. 59. t. HI. f. 1. et 
Sp. pl. 4. p. 1 
a, ces UND aculeis, stipulis, foliolisque nee foliolis anterior- 
ibus quam semina ru i cs m 
b, brevibracteata, aculei p 3 folioli terioribus 
semina vix aaia 
e, brachyphylia, foliis brevioribus incurvis, foliolis semina vix æquantibus. 
d, EU articulis foliorum superioribus nonnullis ecorticatis. 
B. Meyenii, flexibilior et subdiaphana ; aculeis subverticillatis ; foliis 
Maiin 10-13, articulis 8-10, genieulo infimo fertili, foliolis 
semina visa superantibus ; seminibus Poi 
Ch. armata, Meyen, Reise um die Erde II. 
Variat. b. rie emere siis Sues pluribus, =r 
articuli 
Ch. armata B. ligna; E ia ë: 
The variety a. was first detected in Ceylon by Lebeck, in 1798 (ac- 
cording to Klein in herb. Willd.) and afterwards collected near Tran- 
in herb. Agardh; Dr. Wight in herb. Hook. No. 131, 139, 152); 
Pondicherry (Perrottet) ; Busna (with Ch. Hydropithys, herb. Hook.) ; 
the variety a. d. near Madras (Dr. Wight in herb. Hook.) The var. 8. 
was collected by Meyen in 1831 on the Sandwich Island, Oahu; 8. b. 
in the same Island by Meyen and also by Eschscholtz. 
The seeds of a. are ?$:12? m. long (the nut 52:99) ; the — of B. 
To the varieties of Ch. polyphylla here described, several others are to 
be added, natives of North America, the West Indies, and South America. 
To these belong Ch. foliolosa Mühlenb. ap. Willd. from North America ; 
Ch. Indica Bertero, from Guadeloupe; Ch. Haitensis Turpin, from St. 
Domingo; Ch. compressa Kunth, from Venezuela. All these must be 
considered varieties of Ch. polyphylla. 
12. Ch. Javanica. 1 cannot exactly define this species, having seen 
