October 25, 1913] Notes and Descriptions of Philippine Fungi— II 1927 



Hab. upon the upper side of the leaves of one of the Meliaceae 

 No. 14054, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Mindanao, October, 1912, 

 No. 14057. 



As is well known there exist in this large genus Asterina 

 only a few species which are provided with opposite hyphopodia. 

 This new Asterina opposita is perhaps the best representative 

 of this group as it possesses very numerous hyphopodia which 

 are nearly all entirely opposite. The species is closely related 

 to Asterina Elmeri Syd. % but differs by the much lighter 

 context of the perithecia and in the somewhat narrower 

 hyphae of the mycelium. 



Asterina subinermis Syd. nov. spec. 



Mycelio hypophyllo, rarius et tunc parce etiam in 

 epiphyllo evoluto, late effuso, vix maculiformi, ex hyphis 

 longiusculis ramosis fuscis vix vel remote septatis 4 — 5 micro, 

 crassis composito; hyphopodiis rarissimis, continuis, subglobosis, 

 ovatis, vel irregularibus et tunc saepe parum lobatis, alter- 

 nantibus vel subinde etiam oppositis, fuscis, 9 — 10 micro, 

 longis, 6 — 8 micro, latis; peritheciis aggregatis, ambitu orbic- 

 ularibus, 175—220 micro, diam., stellatim dehiscentibus, 

 amoene radiatim strato simplici contextis, contextu fusco ex 

 hyphis 2 — 3 micro, latis composito, ambitu hyphis 30 — 60 

 micro, longis flexuosis radiantibus 2.5 — 4 micro, latis cinctis; 

 ascis globosis vel subglobosis, octosporis, 42 — 55 micro, longis, 

 35 — 45 micro, latis, aparaphysatis; sporidiis oblongis, medio 

 1-septatis et vix vel parum constrictis, utrinque late rotundatis, 

 ex hyalino fuscis, verruculosis, 32 — 57 micro, longis, 14 — 16 

 micro, latis, loculis aequalibus vel fere aequalibus. 



Hab. upon the nether side of the older leaves of a 

 young shrub, Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Mindanao, July, 

 1912, No. 13402. 



The hyphopodia are only very scantily developed. 



Asterina lobata Syd. in Leafl. Philip. Bot. v, 1912, p. 1541, 



Hab. upon the under surface of the leaves of Picrasma 

 javanica Blm., Todaya (Mt. Apo), Mindanao, June, 1909, 



No. 10842. 



