28 FETCH : 



The specimen is almost entirely effete ; the few ripe spores 

 observed are brown, broadly oval or siibcymbiform, with 

 rounded ends, one-septate, constricted at the septum, 30-32 

 X 12-14 jx. 



This species is evidently Lembosia, and will stand as Lem- 

 bosia inlricata (B. & Br.). 



260. — Lophodermium Fourcroyae (B. & Br.) Massee. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome as 

 Hystermm Fourcroyae, " Lirellis brevibus depressis rufis fissura 

 angusta ; sporidiis fusiformibus multinucleatis (Nos. 361, 

 507 in part). On leaves of Fcmircroya. Irregularly scattered, 

 giving the leaves a dingy appearance ; sporidia '0003 long. 

 The same thing occurs on palm leaves, with the sporidia 

 •004 long." 



In Saccardo, II., p. 769, it was listed as Gloniella. Massee 

 re-described it as Lophodermium, in Grevillea, XXII., p. 34, 

 and stated " an examination of the type specimen shows the 

 spores to be linear, multiguttulate, and almost as long as the 

 ascus, and are thus represented in two sketches made by 

 Broome and attached to the specimens. The measurements 

 given to these spore drawings are : SiJecimen on Fourcroya, 

 0'003 in. long, on palm 0*004 in. long. Unfortunately in the 

 diagnosis of this species, in giving the measurements of the 

 spores of the form growing on Fourcroya, the decimal point is 

 put in the wrong place, thus -0003 instead of 0"003." 



The individual perithecia are black, oval, immersed, slightly 

 elevated, covered by the epidermis, dehiscing longitudinally, 

 about 0*5 mm. long and 0-3 mm. broad. They are crowded, 

 and often confluent, usually in irregular Hnes, but sometimes 

 stellately. The perithecial wall is parenchymatous, fused 

 above with the epidermis. The paraphyses are linear, slightly 

 thickened at the apex, and sometimes flexuose above. The 

 asci are cylindric, attenuated below, with a short pedicel, 

 98-112 X 5-6 [L. The spores are linear, almost as long as the 

 ascus, 1-1 '5 [L diameter, contents granular, arranged in a 

 parallel bundle. Massee 's measurement of the spores is 

 GO-65 X 1-5 tJi. ^ 



