CEYLON FT7NGI. 31 



263. — Gloniella atramentaria (B. & Br.) Sacc. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome as 

 Hysterium atramentarium, " minutum, ellipticum, e crusta 

 nigra oriundum ; sporidiis clavatis trinucleatis (No. 300). 

 On wood. Lirellse scarcely visible to the naked eye ; asci 

 short, linear ; sporidia hyaline, -0003." In Saccardo, II., 767, 

 it was included under Gloniella. Massee re -described it in 

 Grevillea, XXII., p. 34. 



The perithecia are oblong-oval, about 0*4 mm. long, 

 0-15 mm. broad, immersed, then erumpent, prominent, 

 pulvinate, rounded or acutely ridged above, dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally. Berkeley and Broome's " Crusta nigra " appears 

 to be merely the blackened wood. The paraphyses are 

 numerous, linear, longer than the asci. The asci are eight- 

 spored, cylindric, 40-45 X 3-4 \k, with obliquely uniseriate 

 spores. In the part of the type specimen examined by me 

 only immature spores in the ascus were observed ; these were 

 narrow oval or fusoid, one-septate, 4-6 X 2 ^. Massee gave 

 the spores as hyaHne, three-septate at matiirity, 7-8 X 4 [ji,. 



264. — Gloniopsis orbicularis (B. & Br.) Massee. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome as 

 Glonium orbiculare, " Lirellis circinantibus in maculam 

 orbicularem congestis ; sporidiis oblongis quadriseptatis 

 (No. 671). On Bamboo. Nearly I inch across ; lirellse 

 circinating round a central naked black spot, superficial, 

 easily chipping off ; sporidia -0005 long, but scarcely mature." 

 In Saccardo, II., 769, it was included under Gloniella. Massee 

 (Grevillea, XXII., p. 33) re-described it as Gloniopsis. 



The stromata are black, superficial, circular, about 6 mm. 

 diameter, flat, thin, readily separable from the host. They 

 bear concentric, or spirally arranged, ridges, in which the 

 perithecia are situated, the centre of the stroma being usually 

 even and barren. The stroma is about 0*3 mm. thick in the 

 centre, brownish-white internally, with a thin, black, car- 

 bonaceous outer layer. The context is parenchymatous, the 

 hyphse being more or less parallel to the substratum in the 

 barren parts, but erect and parallel in the ridges. There is no 



