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cavities, up to 0*25 mm. diameter. The asci are cyiindrico- 

 clavate, eight-spored, 66-80 x 10 ^. The spores are fusoid, 

 'thin-walled, fuscous, straight, five-septate, sHghtly con- 

 stricted at the septa, 26-32 x 4 [>.. This is a Melogramma, 

 which may stand as Melogramma Lobelia: . 



271. — Cladosporium congestum Berk. 



In Hooker's Journal of Botany, Vol. VI. (1854), p. 208, 

 Berkeley described two species of Cladosporium, viz., Clado- 

 sporium scopgeforme from India and Cladosporium congestum 

 from Ceylon. 



Cladosporium scopeeforme occuiTed on the under-side of the 

 leaves of Myristica Churra. It was described as " Csespitulis 

 parvis orbicularibus ; floccis erectis simplicibus nodosis ; 

 xporis clavatis elongatis curvis subhyalinis. Erumpent ; spots 

 small, orbicular, sometimes scutellseform, consisting of a tuft 

 of erect, simple flocci, which are more or less waved, and 

 repeatedly, though not sharply, geniculate above. Spores 

 clavate, elongated, attenuated below, nearly colourless, 0*001 

 to 0*002 of an inch long. A very pretty and distinct species, 

 with the habit of a minute Circinotrichum. If the s]Dores 

 were septate it would come very near to Corda's genus 

 Helicoryne." The host plant is probably Myristica gibbosa 

 Hk. f. & Th., which was collected near Churra. 



Cladosporium congestum occurred on the imder-side of leaves 

 of Litsea. It was described as " Csespitulis parvis orbiculari 

 bus, floccis erectis simplicibus, sporis brevioribus clavatis 

 curvis subhyalinis. Spores not exceedmg 0*001 inch. 

 Thread even, not nodulose. Closely allied, but distinct." 



In the Fungi of Ceylon (Jour. Linn, Soc, XIV., p. 99) 

 Berkeley and Broome recorded for Ceylon both C. scopaeforme 

 and C. congestum. The former was said to grow on leaves of 

 Cinnamomum zeylanicum, and to have spores * 002-0 • 0025 

 inch long. The latter was on leaves of Litsea, and had 

 " floccis tenuibus flexuosis ; sporis oblongis curvulis trinu- 

 cleatis," with the " habit of the former." 



Reference to the Ceylon specimens in Herb. Kew shows 

 that there is only one specimen of G. congestum ; it is marked 

 " on Litzaea, Ceylon," and has no date or collection number. 



