VIII, c. 6 Sydoio: Enumeration of Philippine Fungi 479 
MELIOLA MERRILLM Syd. sp, nov. 
Epiphylla, subpelliculosa, atra, velutina, primitus maculas 2-8 
mm diam. formans, dein confluens et plus minusve efFusa; mycelio 
ramoso, anastomosante, fusco-brunneo, ex hyphis septatis 8-10 
fi crassis composite ; hyphopodiis capitatis numerosis, alternanti- 
bus, 20-26 /A longis, cellula basali brevi, superiore globulosa vel 
lenissime lobata, crassa, 11-14 p. lata; hyphopodiis mucronatis 
rarioribus, oppositis, ampulliformibus, usque 24 {x longis; setig 
mycelicis numerosissimis, erectis, basi geniculatis, 160-220 /* 
longis, 9-11 /A latis, septatis, opacis vel subopacis, superne in 
ramos duos patentes 35-70 ^ longos divisis, ramis ad aplcem 
sive tantum bi- tridentatis (dentibus 3-10 ix longis), sive rarius 
iterum in ramulos duos divisis et ramulis his ad apicem breviter 
bi- tridentatis, peritheciis sparsis, globosis, levibus, 140-175 /* 
diam.; ascis ovatis, 2-3-sporis, fugacibus; sporidiis oblongis, 
4-septatis, ad septa constrictis; fuscis, utrinque late rotundatis, 
34-38 /. longis, 12-14 ^ latis. ' 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Mt. Maquiling, Merrill 8672, March, 1913, 
on living leaves of Cissus (? adnata). 
Meliola Merrillii at first forms small patches which, however, soon run 
more or less together. It is most nearly related to M. patens Syd., espe- 
cially in the ramification of the mycelial setae, but differs in its external 
appearance, in the smaller, not rugose perithecia and by the smaller 
sporidia. 
MELlOLA PEREGRINA Syd. sp. nov. 
Amphigena, maculas atras minutissimas 0.33-1.5 mm diam. 
orbiculares formans; mycelio ex hyphis radiantibus ramosis 
longiusculis castaneo-brunneis septatis 7-9 fi crassis formato; 
hyphopodiis capitatis innumeris, densissime stipatis, alternanti- 
bus, obscure brunneis, 12-17 /x longis, 10-12 ^ latis, cellula supe- 
riore late rotundata, inferiore brevi; hyphopodiis mucronatis 
rarissimis ; setis nullis ; peritheciis plerumque solitariis in quaque 
macula, rotundatis* applanatis, atris, ostiolatis, 200-300 /x latis, 
contextu opaco indistincte hyphoideo ; ascis ovatis, bisporis, 45-54 
/* longis, 25-35 /* latis ; sporidiis oblongis, utrinque late rotundatis, 
4-septatis, ad septa constrictis, obscure fuscis, 34-41 /* longis, 
12-16 fx latis. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, Bur. Sci. 20255 McGregor, Januarj-, 
1913, on living leaves of Maesa laxa. 
The species differs from nearly all representatives of the large genus 
Meliola by the flat perithecia of a rather hyphoid tissue. It agrees in 
this respect somewhat with M, clavispora Pat. 
