284 A CYTOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF SOME SPECIES 
stretched, curved, shape. Fig. 71 and 72 shows such plates of Black 
Cheribon and of Fidji, containing approximately 80 chromosomes. In 
the microscopical images of these nuclear plates the chromosomes were 
slightly less distinctly separated than in the drawings. The images ho- 
wever are so indistinct that a re-drawing of these nuclear plates doubt- 
less would give a somewhat different result, still, then also, the num- 
ber of chromosomes would approximate 80. 
The nuclear plates of preparations of Red Egyptian cane gave figures 
very much like those of Black Cheribon. They also contain approxima- 
tely 80 chromosomes, which is, as it should be, as these two , kinds” 
are identical. 
§ 4. The Chromosome-numbers of the British-Indian Saccharum-varieties 
Chunnee and Ruckree II 
It is not easy to conclude to a definite chromosome-number in the 
case of these forms. 

Fig. 73. 
Fig. 73. PMC of Chunnee in diakinesis x 2300. 

