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Sporangia small, about ^ a line broad, very abundant, nearly smooth, 

 umber-brown, outer coat often peeling off. Spores obovate, sometimes 

 rather pointed below, -35^^ of an inch long. 



Distinct from C. vernicoms in colour, the more tomentose peridium, 

 umber-brown, smaller sporangia, and smaller spores, those in C. ver- 

 nicosus being 3-^5^ of an inch long. 



463. Aschersonia oxystomdy n. s. ; stromate basi floccoso-expanso 

 leviter cylindrico ceraceo armeniaco, centro depresso ; sporis oblongis 

 utrinque appendiculatis. 



Hab, On the under side of green leaves of some Myninea. Lower 

 part of India. (Hooker and Thomson.) 



Stroma 1 line across, waxy, apricot-coloured, expanded and floccose 

 at the base, above cylindrical, with one or more depressions at the apex ; 



cells irregular, few, large. 



elliptic, with a filiform appendage at either end. 



Eesembling in colour A. TaUensiSy Mont., but very different in form 

 and in the spores. There is a closely allied species in Ceylon. 



464. Uredo Clematidis^ n. s. ; maculis obsoletis; sons sparsis irre- 

 gularibus epidermide persistente vestitis ; sporis magnis granulato-ru- 

 gosis paUidis. 



Clematis 



a> 



Spots obsolete. Sori scattered over the under surface of the leaves, 

 irregular, covered for a long time with the cuticle. Spores minutely 

 rough with raised granules, yellow, becoming pale, xtoo ^^ ^^ ^^^^ 

 long, subglobose, rather irregular. 



This species seems constantly mixed with a Puccinia^ which some- 



times 



Coleosporium pinguey Lev. 

 Hab. On the leaves and petioles of a species of Asiilbe, Surureen, 



June 26, 1850. (Dr. Hooker.) 

 465. Eaveiielia Indica, Berl 



vesiculis 



tinctis. Berk, in Gard. Chrou. 1853, p. 132, cum icone. 



Hab. On pods of Jcacia. Abundant in the Bunway Pass, Beliar. 

 On pods and stems of ^5?-«s. Paras Nath. (Dr. Hooker.) 



Sori I of an inch or more across, surrounded by the laciniated cuti- 

 cle : the mvnelium nenetiating the substnnceof the pods, and producing 



