The [updated 
text](https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/pull/270/files/788f8e3bdb88824a78ca17ea8ad5b73ec6ee26b4..c4f59ed3c44f78ae62f8748bc2468fe356eec5eb)
 reads:

> In CF-netCDF, when a geometry container variable is present it explicitly 
> describes the geometry type, identifies the node coordinate variables that 
> contain the cell vertices, and references the node count variable that 
> contains the number of parts per cell. 

The node count and part node count variables are optional in some situations. 
How about this:

> In CF-netCDF, when a geometry container variable is present it explicitly 
> describes the geometry type and identifies the node coordinate variables that 
> contain the cell vertices.  The geometry container variable also identifies a 
> node count variable that contains the number of nodes per cell when more than 
> one cell is present, and a part node count variable that contains the number 
> of nodes per cell part when cells are comprised of multipart lines, multipart 
> polygons, and polygons with holes. 



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