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PALAWAN, Lake Manguao, Merrill 8961 (type), 8960, 8956, April, 1913. 
All specimens on dead fallen petioles of Orania. 
MERRILLIOPELTIS CALAMI P. Henn. 
PALAWAN, Lake Manguao, Merrill 8951 p. p., April, 1913. On dead 
Calamus. 
DIDYMOSPHAERIA Fuckel 
DIDYMOSPHAERIA MINUTELLA Penz. et Sacc. 
PALAWAN, Taytay, Merrill 8755, April, 1913. On dead Dinochloa scan- 
dens; Silanga, Merrill 8933, 8941, May, 1913. On dead Schizostachyum. 
OPHIOBOLUS Riess 
OPHIOBOLUS LICUALAE Syd. sp. nov. 
Peritheciis sub epidermide bullatim elevata dense aggregatis, 
greges 0.5-5 mm latos et longos formantibus, haud immersis, 
sed epidermide tandem ab papillulis minutis perforata tectis, 
e basi lata obtuse conoideis, 130-160 » altis, 60-125 » crassis, 
atris, ad basim hyphis paucis circumdatis, contextu obscure 
fusco parenchymatico ex cellulis 6-8 » diam. composito; ascis 
fasciculatis, cylindraceis, subsessilibus, filiformiter paraphysatis, 
- 90-120 » longis, 10-12 » latis; sporidiis parallelis, filiformibus, 
rectis vel leniter curvatis, 2-4-septatis, guttulatis, hyalinis, 70-85 
» longis, 2.5 » latis. 
PALAWAN, Lake Manguao, Merrill 8946 (type), April, 1913 and Taytay, 
Merrill 8730, April, 1913. Both on dead petioles of Licuala spinosa. 
ANTHOSTOMELLA Saccardo 
ANTHOSTOMELLA BICINCTA Syd. sp. nov. 
Peritheciis densiuscule sparsis, omnino immersis, atris, glo- 
bosis, 350-425 » diam., epidermidem atro-nitidulam leniter ele- 
vantibus, coriaceo-mollibus; ascis cylindraceis, apice obtusis, 
100-125 » longis, 138-16 » latis, octosporis, poro jodi ope coeru- 
lescente; paraphysibus leniter mucosis; sporidiis recte monos- 
tichis, continuis, ellipsoideis, utrinque rotundatis, ex hyalino mox 
fuscis, centro zona latiuscula (2—4 p» lata) dilutiore vel subhya- 
lina cinctis, praeterea strato mucoso 1.5-2.5 » lato distinctissimo 
circumdatis, 15-18 » longis, 9-10 » latis (sine muco). 
PALAWAN, Taytay, Merrill 8879, May, 1918. On dead petiole of Caryota. 
The fungus might be considered as belonging to the Massariaceae, resem- 
bling Massariopsis (see Rehm in Annal. Mycol. 4: 269), from which it 
differs only in the unicellular sporidia. We place our fungus, however, 
to Anthostomella, as numerous other similar exotic species have been 
described under Anthostomella. Perhaps this genus must later be divided. 
The sporidia of the new species are surrounded by a very distinct and 
comparatively large mucous layer. They are at first hyaline, soon becom- 
ing brownish and then showing a very distinct, clear, nearly hyaline band 
around the center in the same way as are often shown the conidia of 
Anthostomella. 
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