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rotimdati crassiusculeque tunicati, pedicello crasso bre- 

 vissimoque suffulti, octospori aparaphysati ; sporidia di- 

 sticha lineari-clavulata (20 X 4 y) superne obtusa inferne 

 acutiusculcrotundata, medio l-septatalenissime constricta 

 recta hyalina. Species pusilla S. infuscatae Wint., ut vide- 

 tur, affinis. 



329. RoussoELLA suBCOccoDES Spcg. (u. sp.) 



Diag. Stromata hypophylla sparsa v. subcircinantia hemi- 

 sphaerico-subglobosa minuta innato-superficialia fusco- 

 atra paucilocularia ; asci cyUndracei v. clavulati octo- 

 spori mucoso-diffluentes; sporidia cylindraceo-obovata 

 excentrice 1-septata, utrinque subtruncata, fuliginea. 



Hab. Ad folia (subcoriacea elliptica glabra) viva Legumino- 

 sae scandentis cujusdam in dumetis prope Apiahy, Maj. 

 1888 (sub n. 2841). 



Obs. Maculae nullae v. indeterminatae pallescentes ; stro- 

 mata sparsa v. gregaria atque saepe subcircinata, rarius 

 confluentia hemisphaerica v. saepius globulosa (0,5-1"' 

 dm. et crs.) matrici arcte adnata, fusco-atra v. atra glabra 

 ruguloso-subtuberculata subcarbonacea contextu indi- 

 stincto ; loculi 2 v. 5 in quoque stromate constipati globu- 

 losi (120-150 F- dm.) ostiolo non v. vix in stromatis super- 

 ficie papillato-prominulo donati, fusco-farcti ; asci cylin- 

 dracei v. clavulati (p. sp. 50-60 X 7-8 ,u) apice obtusi base 

 attenuati mox diffluentes octospori ; sporidia oblique mo- 

 no-v. recte di-sticha obovata, utrinque truncato-rotun- 

 data (10-12 X 4-5^), septo excentrico divisa, non v. vix 

 constricta, hjculo supero majore 2-guttulato, infero du- 

 plo minore 1-guttulato, fuliginea. Species cum Phylla- 

 chora coccodi (Lev.) Speg. (in Sacc, Syll. pyr. vol. I, f. 

 446 sub Physalospora) comparata habitu simillima, fruc- 

 tificationis tamen notis secundum auctoris diagnosin 

 (specimen meum micaraguense sterile) longe recedens ; 

 an ejusdem status adultus ? 



