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Most resembling a MS. species from Ceylon, A, nubecula, in which 

 the spots arc scarcely visible. I have not seen the sporidia bipartite, 

 as in that species, but they doubtless become so at last. 



477. A. cincta, n. s. ; maculis fibrillosis; fibrillis sparsis ramosis re- 

 pentibus ; peritheciis globosis, setis ac\itis cinctis ; ascis oblongis. 



Hab. On leaves of Camellia, Khasia. (Hooker and Thomson.) 



Spots one or two lines broad on either side of the leaf, consisting of 

 distinct, creeping, branched fibres, which resemble some minute PoIt/- 

 sip/ionia. Perithecia globose, surrounded by sharp bristles, about as 

 long as themselves. Asci short, linear-oblong; sporidia delicate, sub- 

 elliptic, but slightly attenuated, uniseptate, hyaline (at least in the spe- 

 cimens examined), about o-^Vn of an inch long. 



This species in some measure connects the genera Asterina and Me- 

 liola. The asci did not very readily part with their contents, and were 

 possibly not mature. 



478. A. scutelUfera , n. s.; mycelio tenuissimo pelliculoso rcticulato; 

 peritheciis scutelliformibus, immixtis aliis punctiformibus, 



Hab. On living leaves of Antidesma, Chittagong, (Hooker and 

 Thomson.) 



Patches irregular, extremely thin, peeling off when wetted, consist- 

 ing of reticulate fibres, marked with little scutelliform perithecia, in 

 which I have not seen perfect fruit. Scattered over the mycelium are 

 other punctiform perithecia, which contain numerous minute, oblong, 



curved, hyaline spores, -g^jVo ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^S- 



Though the scutelliform perithecia are still in a sclerotioid state, I 

 think this production too singular to pass over, on account of the se- 

 cond form of fruit on the same mycelium. The species will not be 

 difficult to recognize on account of its extremely thin patches, forming 

 a mere dark cloud, and the scutelliform fruit with which they are 

 spotted. There seems to be frequently a small ostiolum. 



479. Cordyceps falcata^ n. s. ; csespitosa, basi processibus acutis fili- 

 formibus immixta; stipitibus cylindricis subito in capitulum falciforme 



acuminatum incrassatis. 



Hab. Ou a dead caterpillar. Myrong. (Hooker and Thomson.) 

 Csespitose; fertile stems \\ inch high, about 1 line thick, two or 

 three together, with a quantity of sterile, filiform, acute, abortive pro- 

 cesses at the base, cylindrical, swelling gradnally into an oblique, falci- 

 form, acuminate head, which is rough with the oblong, free, pointed 

 perithecia. Asci filiform, with an inflated appendage at the tip. 



