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SPOROCYBACEI. 
STILBUM INCONSPICUUM, n. sp. Solitarium vel cæspitosum, minutissimum ; capitulo 
subgloboso, albido ; stipite badio, deorsum leviter incrassato ; sporis ellipticis, nucleo 
excentrico ornatis, 0:0002 unc. longis.—Seebpore, Lower Bengal. No. 2197. 
S. ERYTHOCEPHALUM, Dittm. var .—On dead bamboo-stems, Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 
rainy season. No. 2639. 
This plant hardly differs from S. erythrocephalum, Dittm.; but the stem is only very 
delicately pilose, with silky adpressed hairs. 
SPHJERIACEI. 
XYLARIA DIGITATA, Grev. Spheria digitata, Fr. S. M. ii. p. 326.—Botanic Garden, Cal- 
cutta. Оп moist logs. Мо. 1791. 
X. TABACINA, Kickx.—Sikkim Himalaya, 7000-8000 feet. On old fallen trees. No. 2575. 
X. GUYANENSIS, Mont. Sylloge, p. 202.—Tonkyeghat, Evergreen Forests, Pegu. No. 2625. 
X. roLYMORPHA, Grev. Spheria polymorpha, Fr. S. M. ii. p. 326.—Botanie Garden, 
Caleutta. On oldlogs in the shade, rainy season. Хо. 2659. 
X. HYPOXYLON, Grev. Spheria hypoxylon, Fr. S. M. ii. p. 327.—Arracan, Baronga 
Island, on old tree-stumps. Хо. 2046. Botanic Garden, Calcutta, on old logs, 
rainy season. No. 2657. 
X. KunzrANA, n. sp. Solitaria vel cæspitosa, vel etiam connata, 1-1 unc. longa; capite 
eastaneo subhemispherico, peritheciis prominentibus scabro; sporidiis nigro-fuscis, 
amygdaloideis, 0:0006-0:0007 unc. longis.—On brick-laid paths where fire had been 
burnt. Botanic Garden, Calcutta, rainy season. No. 2650. 
Plate 21. fig. 8. Plants, natural size. seda 
The dried plants required to be moistened to bring out the colour, which is a chestnut- 
brown. Mr. Kurz describes them as yellow at first and then brown. There is another 
Aylaria in the collection (No. 1783, from the Calcutta Botanic Garden), which seems to 
be the same as No. 2650. The habitat, viz. brick-laid soil upon which fires had been 
burnt, is somewhat peculiar for a Xylaria. 
X. FLAGELLIFORWIS, n. sp. Solitaria vel cæspitosa, simplex vel fureata, flagelliformis, 
colore carneo ; peritheciis ?—0On earth, Sittang valley, along the base of the 
Yomah range, Респ. No. 3485. 
Plate 21. fig. 5. Plants, natural size. i 
X. MUTABILIS, n. sp. Solitaria vel cæspitosa vel connata, simplex vel ramosa, vel cristata ; 
stipite nigro, rugoso, interdum profunde sepulto; capite elongato, үне carneo, 
sicco pallide umbrino, ostiolis nigris prominentibus scabro ; sporidiis uniseriatis, 
nigro-fuscis, irregularibus (reniformibus, subellipticis vel subglobosis), minutissimis, 
vix 00001 unciæ attinentibus.—On brick-laid paths in the Botanic Garden, Cal- 
eutta. Very common in the rainy season. №. 1790. 
Plate 21. figs. 10 and 11. Plants in different states, natural size. 
This plant is remarkable for its irregular growth, the small size of its sporidia, and the 
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