32 FETCH : 



true perithecium ; the cavities are small, circular in section, 

 and about 70 [k diameter, splitting along the apex. Numerous 

 paraphyses are present. 



Berkeley and Broome gave the spore as 12 "5 [t. long, four- 

 septate, but scarcely mature. The co-type in Herb. Pera- 

 deniya is in the same condition, and the spores observed in it 

 are greenish-hyaline, narrow-oval to subfusoid, 12-14 x 

 3-4 [X, three -septate. Massee found, in the type in Herb. 

 Kew, spores " three-, then five-septate and with a few vertical 

 septa, 12-15 X 6-7 >." 



The tissue of the host plant appears quite sound, and does 

 not contain any mycelium. Some of its cells are filled with 

 starch. 



265. — Micropeltis granulata B. & Br. 



This was described in Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1139, as " Minuta 

 granulata, ascis linearibus ; sporidiis Isevibus late ellipticis. 

 On leaves of Caesalpimia sepiaria. Matale, March, 1868. 

 Rather spread out at the base, coarsely granulated, growing 

 on the green parts of haH-dead leaves ; sporidia '0005 by 

 •0003." 



The leaves bear minute scattered black patches, about 

 0*25 mm. diameter, which are circular, broadly conical, and 

 coarsely granular with scattered warts. Sections show that 

 the black area is a clypeus formed beneath the cuticle ; it is 

 opaque and carbonaceous, except in the centre, where the 

 cellular structure is evident ; it is about 34 [i. thick at the 

 edges, thinning to about 10 [jl or less in the centre ; there is no 

 true ostiolum. 



The single loculus is formed beneath the clypeus, which in 

 some cases extends beyond it, but in others does not wholly 

 cover it. It is formed beneath the cuticular clypeus, and 

 presses downwards the epidermal cells and the mesophyll. 

 Its wall is hyahne and thin. There is no stroma in the usual 

 sense, and no blackened zone, excepting the clypeus. The 

 loculus is flattened, laterally oval, about 220 [k diameter, and 

 90 (jL high in the middle. The asci are cylindric, or cylindrico- 

 clavate, eight-spored, with obliquely uniseriate spores, 80-96 

 X 12-14 [I, furnished with linear paraphyses. The spores are 

 oval, hyaline, continuous, minutely verrucose, 13-18 X 7-10 \l 



