HYPOCREACEiE ZEYLANICE. 8d 



cited is "5 in part." This is one of the cases in which 

 Thwaites, or probably his collector, put together several 

 species, which he subsequently separated. The other parts of 

 Xo. 5 are Hypocrea catoptron, 5 in part ; Hyjjocrea albofulva, 

 5 in part ; Hypocrea citrina, 1094 (5 in part) ; and Hypocrea 

 midtiformis, 1094, 1095, both of which numbers are " 5 in 

 part." Consequently it is to be expected that mixtures of 

 these species will occur in all the types. In addition to the 

 type specimen of Hypocrea discella in Herb. Kew, No. 1095 m 

 the cover of Hypocrea multiformis is Hyp)ocrea discella and 

 Hypocrea catoptron, and 1095 at Peradeniya contains the same 

 two species. 



Hypocrea discella from the herbarium specimens is flattened 

 pulvinate, more or less circular or oval, with a lobed margin, 

 up to 1 mm. diameter, thin, upper .surface slightly convex. A 

 few specimens are red-broMii, uniformly coloured, with a 

 rounded margin, and up to 0*4 mm. thick, but the majority 

 are thinner, with a somewhat flattened margin, red-brown or 

 sordid yellow-brown in the centre, yellow to yellow-brown at 

 the margin. The surface is minutely tomentose and irregular, 

 with minute, pulvinate, perithecial elevations. The ostiola 

 are black and slightly projecting. The internal tissue is 

 yellowish- white, rather loose and friable, and the perithecia 

 separate readily when mounted. The perithecia are broadly 

 flask-shaped, up to 0*2 mm. diameter and 0*2 mm. Wgh, 

 crowded, situated at slightly different depths, and the wall 

 appears black in section, but is yellow by transmitted light. 

 The sporiferous part of the ascus measures 56 X 3 \j.. The 

 part spores are globose, 2'5-3[a diameter, or oval, 3-4 X 

 2 '5-3 [JL, greenish-yellow, warted. 



Hypocrea deplanata B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 985, as " Cremoricolor, adnata, margine 

 brevi albo byssoidea : ostiolis impressis Isetioribus. Sporidia 

 16, globose, forming a necklace." The type specimen is now 

 broAvn, with darker ostiola, and the ostiola are slightly 

 elevated. 



