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This species is evidently not Micropeltis. It appears to be 

 a reduced Trabutia, and may stand provisionally as Trabutia 

 granulata (B. & Br.). 



266. — Micropeltis gomphispora B. & Br. 



This was described by Berkeley and Broome, in Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 1137, as " Minutissima, hemisphserica, margine 

 vix applanato ; sporidiis biseriatis cuneiformibus ; endochro- 

 mate utrinque contracto. On leaves of Pavetta indica. 

 Extremely minute ; sporidia obtuse at either end, separated 

 into two portions by a hyaline line, -0003 to -0006 long; 

 perithecia minutely granulated, '001 in diameter, or less." 

 In Saccardo, II., p. 665, it was listed as Microthyrium. 



The leaf in the type is Pavetta, but it appears to be Pavetta 

 angustifolia, rather than P. indica. The perithecia are 

 superficial, epiphyllous, scattered, about 0*1 mm. diameter, 

 black, shining, minutely rugose, circular, flattened pulvinate. 

 There is no free mycehum. The upper layer or cover is black- 

 brown, composed of small irregular cells, not radially arranged, 

 with a central circular ostiolum. The asci are ovate, 35-40 X 

 16 \j., eight-spored, spores biseriate, with short linear para- 

 physes. The spores are oblongo-fusoid, or ovate, with 

 obtusely rounded ends, blackish-brown, with a pale septum 

 about one -third the length of the spore from the upper, 

 broader end, not constricted at the septum, 8-10 X 4-5 ^. 

 The spore wall is hyaUne over the septum ; when viewed in 

 profile, the dark wall of the spore is interrupted by a short 

 hyaHne length over the septum. 



This species belongs to the Hemispfidsriaceee, Section Dictyo- 

 peltinex. It differs from all the recorded genera in its dark 

 spores, and would appear to require the institution of a new 

 genus, which may be known as Phseopeltis. 



Phdsopeltis, gen. nov., Dictyopeltinese. — Cover netted, not 

 radial ; ostiolate ; spores black-brown, one-septate ; paraphyses 

 present. 



Berkeley and Broome's species will then stand as Phseo- 

 peltis. gomphispora (B. & Br.). 



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