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Fig. 1. Metaphase chromosomes in antheridial filaments of charophytes from the South Pacific, a-d, Char a 
corallina (sensu Wood, 1962^); e-f, Lamprothamn turn succinctum; g-i, Char a fibrosa; j, Nitella hyalina; k, 
Nitella furcata. (Camera lucida drawings, all X 900.) 
New Caledonia 
1. Chora corallina (CYT NC-5 ) . Figure 1. 
Plants ecorticate, dioecious, with basal game- 
tangia, have the combination of characters of 
Chara australis; the inflated axes and generally 
lacking or reduced lateral appendages more nar- 
rowly suggest Proto chara australis. In corre- 
spondence Wood notes, 
"CYT 5 ... I find to be Chara corallina (dioe- 
cious strain) — the C. australis of earlier workers, 
in part). You have 'Proto chara australis,’ but the 
specimens I have from New Caledonia are not 
nearly so inflated as the ones I’ve seen from 
Australia.” 
The chromosome number 14 is to be expected 
