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but Theissen and Sydow, avIio have re-examined the tjrpe 

 specimen, query that determination. Tlie original description 

 is " Parva, orbicularis ; sporidiis oblongis angustis unisep- 

 tatis. Sporidia •0006 long." Theissen and Sydow have 

 placed it in Otthia, as Otthia orhis (Berk.) Theiss. & Sj'd. 

 (Ann. Myc, XII., p. 179), stating that the spores are brown, 

 18-22 X 4 [I.. 



Fresh specimens, identical with the type, have been collected 

 on Litsea zeylanica. The fungus grows on the under-side of the 

 leaf, the perithecia being at first scattered, then clustered in 

 groups of about twelve, forming small discoid patches. The 

 individual perithecia are about • 1 mm. diameter, conoid, 

 black, minutely rugose, ostiolate. They are seated on a thin 

 film of agglutinated hyphse, by which they are attached to the 

 leaf. The cluster of perithecia and the basal stroma are 

 superficial. The wall of the perithecium is thick, not car- 

 bonaceous, and when fresh is reddish internally. The asci 

 are clavate, very shortly pedicellate, thick-walled at first, 

 eight-spored, spores biseriate, 40-60 x 7-8 [i. There are no 

 paraphyses. The spores are fusoid or subcymbiform, ends 

 obtuse, one-septate. Spores in the ascus, from fresh speci- 

 mens, were greenish hyaline, 10-15 X 2 '5-3 y. ; extruded 

 spores from the same collection were hyaline, 14-18 X 4^5 \x. 

 In the part of the type examined the spores were hyaline, 

 14-18 X 4^5 [K, but a single brown spore, 16 X 4 [>., was 

 observed. 



The species appears to be Lizonia, not Otthia, and will stand 

 as Lizonia orhis (Berk.) 



269. — Asterina micropeltis B. & Br. 



Berkeley and Broome described this species, in Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 1141, as " Peritheciis punctiformibus solitariis, 

 mycelio brevi ramoso cinctis. On leaves of Jambosa hemis- 

 phasrica." Jambosa hemisphserica is Eugenia hemispherica 

 Wight. 



The fungus occurs on the upper surface of the leaf, forming 

 minute, superficial, scattered, black pomts, up to O'o mm. 

 diameter. These are at first flattened convex, and when 



