281 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao (3537 Merrill) October, 1903 (Type). On 

 prostrate log. 



This species externally resembles Nummularia bulliardi Tul., which however 

 has asci 10 by 100 120 fi and sporidia 9 10 by 11-14 fi. 



PORONIA Willd. 



Poronia pileiformis (Berk.) Fr. Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups. 1 (1855) 129. 

 Sphaeria pileiformis Berk. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1 (1842) 155. pi. 7. f. 6. 

 Philippines (1980 Cuming) fide Berk. 1. c. 



SPHAERIA Auct. 



Sphaeria micraspis Berk. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1 (1842) 156. pi. 7. /. 0. 



Philippines (21G4 Cuming) fide Berk. 1. c. 



This is probably nqt a fungus but a lichen. Berkeley opp. cit. 457 refers it 

 to Verrucaria nitens Fee. 



TREMATOSPHAERIA Fuck. 



Trematosphaeria palaquii Bicker sp. nov. 



Perithecia gregarious or scattered, slightly immersed, subcarbonaccous, 

 black, ovate-globose, 1-2 mm. diam.; ostiolum usually obtusely conical, 

 soon deciduous, paraphyses filiform, numerous, larger than the asci; 

 asci clavate or cylindrical, 14-15 by 132-141 /x; sporidia uniseriate, ovate- 

 oblong, 5-spored, at first hyaline then becoming brown, 3-septate, not 

 constricted at septum, 8-12 by 17-20 fx. 



Luzon, Province of Tarlac (3597 Merrill) November, 1903. (Type.) On bark 

 of Palaquium latifolium. 



XYLARIA Hill. 



Xylara fulvo-lanata (Berk.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1 (1882) 340. Sphaeria fulvo- 

 lanata Berk. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1 (1842) 154. 

 Philippines (2218 Cuming) fide Berk. 1. c. 



Xylaria hypoxylon (Linn.) Grev. Fl. Edin. (1824) 355. Clavaria hypoxylon 

 Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, 2 (1753) 1182. 

 Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao (3530 Merrill) October, 1903. On prostrate 

 logs. 



Xylaria luzonensis P. Hens. Hedw. 32 (1893) 225. pi. 8. f. 3. 

 Luzon {Warburg). On Afzelia bijuga A. Gray, fide Ilenn. 1. c. 



Xylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev. Fl. Edin. (1824) 355. Sphaeria polymorphs 

 Pers. C'omm. Fung. Clav. (1787) 17. 

 Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao (3534 Merrill) October, 1903. On dead 

 trees. Mindanao, near Davao (Warburg) fide llenn. Hedw. 32: 224. 



BASIDIOMYCET^. 



USTALIGINALES. 

 CINTRACTIA Cornu. 



Cintractia axicola (Berk.) Cornu. Ann. Sci. Nat. VI. 15 (1883) 279. Ustilago 

 axicola Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. II. 9 (1852) 200. 

 .Mindanao, Davao (Warburg) fide Ilenn. in Warburg, Mons. 1: 2. Luzon, 

 Manila (Warburg) Ilenn. 1. c. 



