ON FUNGI FROM BRISBANE, QUEENSLAD. 71 
which are 0:0009 inch long. Asci short, 0:0085 inch long, containing two rows of sporidia, 
The appearance of the mycelium, dotted with the perithecia, under a low power is just like 
that of shagreen leather. On bottle-gourds, Brisbane (Е. М. Bailey, no. 287). 
267. RHYTISMA HYPOXANTHUM, Berk. & Broome, n. sp. Forma stylophora, maculis 
insulariformibus e folio incrassato flaccido facto oriundis ; sporis brevibus, oblongis, 
0:0003 unc. longis. 
The parts of the leaves on which the fungus is developed are thickened uniformly and 
of a bufftint; spots irregular in shape, bright shining black, with a distinctly defined 
margin, here and there slightly granulated; basidia within the granules distinct, short, 
threadlike, bearing oblong stylospores 0:0003 inch long. Brisbane (Е. M. Bailey, in a 
distinet set sent as probably galls, or of other insect-origin, no. 4 of the set). 
268. SPHHRELLA DESTRUCTIVA, Berk. & Broome. (Plate XV. figs. 22-24.) Peritheciis 
minutis in maculis brunneis sitis; ascis brevibus, sporidiis uniseriatis subellipticis 
basi subattenuatis. 
It forms brown spots on leaves of Lucern on which the perithecia are seated; asci 
0:0003 inch long; sporidia subelliptie, broader at one end, 0:0005 inch long, very 
injurious to the erops of Lucern. The brown spots consist of a delicate mycelium 
when viewed under a low power of the microscope. Brisbane (F. M. Bailey, no. 264). 
269. ASTERINA BarLEvr, Berk. & Broome, n. sp. (Plate XV. figs. 25-28.) Filamentis 
fuscis nodosis ramosis maculas rufo-brunneas in foliis ignotis formantibus; peritheciis 
minutis rugosis fuscis, fibrillis paucis adhzrentibus ; ascis clavatis, 8 sporidia brunnea 
continentibus. 
It forms. small reddish-brown patches on the leaves of some plant not named; the peri- 
thecia are rough and dark brown, subglobose, and seated on nodose branched threads of the 
same colour; asci clavate, containing 8 ovate biseriate sporidia, which are 1-septate, and 
constricted in the middle, brown, and about 0:0015 inch in length. Brisbane (Е. М. Bailey, 
n0.129. No. 332 seems to be the same thing; but the patches are many times larger). 
270. MELIOLA MOLLIS, Berk. & Broome, in Linn. Soc. Journ. vol. xiv. p. 136. 
Mr. Bailey's plant differs from the above in its rather smaller fruit, 00006 inch long, 
which contain nucleoli, and do not appear septate (this may be owing to its being in a 
younger state), and in its longer and more branched threads. The fruit in M. mollis 
from Ceylon was 0:0008 inch long, and distinctly uniseptate. Brisbane (Р. М. Bailey, 
no. 330). 
271. MELIOLA АМРНІТВІСНА, Fr. Brisbane (F. М. Bailey, по. 184). 
272. MELIOLA CORALLINA, Mont. Fl. Chile, vii. 472. (Plate XV. figs. 29-32.) 
Perithecia globose, clothed with short broad spines, which are seated on a mycelium 
composed of coarse dark brown branched threads, beneath which is a stratum of delicate 
hyaline. Sporidia dark brown, 3-4-septate, oblong, 0:0023 to 0:0025 inch long by about 
0:0007 inch wide. There is similar fruit in Meliola amphitricha, Fr.; there is also an 
unnamed species in the herbarium of Mr. Berkeley, from Khasia, which has similar 
sporidia. Brisbane (F. M. Bailey, nos. 288, 328). 
