xm, c, 6 Yates: Philippine Fungi 371 



it is possible that the numerous erect conidiophores of the latter may 

 have caused the setae to be overlooked. Meliola umirayensis however is 

 well characterized by the 3-septate spores which are rather broader at 

 one end than at the other. The spores are also lighter in color than in 

 most Meliolas. 



MELIOLA WRIGHTIAE sp. nov. 



Amphigena, plerumque epiphylla et totam folium superficiem 

 plus minus continua aterrima obducens; maculas orbiculares 

 3-6 mm diam. ; mycelio ex hyphis densissime intertextis brun- 

 neis septatis anastomosantibus composito; ramis alternantibus 

 vel oppositis; hyphopodiis capitatis numerosis, plerumque alter- 

 nantibus, subglobosis vel ovatis, 12 //, longis, 10-12 ll latis, cellula 

 inferiore ca. 6 fi longa, hyphopodiis mucronatis paucis, irregu- 

 laribus vel oppositis, ampullif ormibus, usque ad 18 fi longis ; setis 

 mycelicis numerosis, erectis, rectis vel leviter curvatis, 200-225 

 fj. longis, 6-8 p. latis, saepe ad basim geniculars, obtusis, obscure 

 brunneis vel versus apicem dilutioribus et fuscis; peritheciis 

 numerosis, globosis, 120-150 /* diam., atris, opacis, tuberculatis, 

 in sicco collapsis; ascis ovatis, 30 p, longis, 20 /* latis; bisporis, 

 mox evanescentibus ; sporidiis cylindraceis, utrinque late rotun- 

 datis, fuscis, 4-septatis, ad septa leviter constrictis, 28-35 ll 

 longis, 12-16 ft latis. 



LUZON, Rizal Province, Bur. Sci. 26757 Ramos (type), November 28, 

 1916, on leaves of Wrightia laniti: Batangas Province, Taal Volcano, 

 Merrill 10618, January 20, 1917, on the same host. 



MELIOLINA Sydow 

 MELIOLINA PULCHERRIMA Syd. in Ann. Myc. 12 (1914) 553. 

 Meliola pulcherrima Syd. in Ann. Myc. 11 (1913) 254, /. I. 

 Luzon, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sci. 28893 Ramos & 

 Edano, May 11, 1917, on leaves of Eugenia. 



PARODIELLA Spegazzini 

 PARODIELLA GRAM MODES (Kze.) Cooke Australian Fungi (1892) 301. 

 Sphaeria grammodes Kunze in Weig. Exs. 



Dothidea grammodes Berk, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 10 (1869) 390. 

 Dothidea perisporioides B. & C. in Grevillea 4 (1878) 103. 

 Dothidella perisporioides Sacc. in Syll. Fung. 2 (1883) 634. 

 Parodiella perisporioides Speg. in Anal. Soc. Cient. Arg. (1880) 178. 

 Luzon, Bulacan Province, Angat, Bur. Sci. 21808 Ramos, September 

 4, 1913, on leaves of Desmodium triflorum. 



MICROTHYRIACEAE 



ASTERINA Leveille 

 ASTERINA BREYNIAE Yates in Philip. Journ. Sci. 12 (1917) Bot. 370. 

 Luzon, Ilocos Norte Province, Burgos, Bur. Sci. 27798 Ramos, March 

 1, 1917, on leaves of Breynia. 



