94 FETCH : 



warted, globose, 4 [>. diameter. Berkeley and Broome's 

 specimen is not quite mature, and has spores globose, 4 [>. 

 diameter, or cuboid, 4 X 4*5 jj.. 



This differs from Hypocrea rufa in nearly all respects. I 

 propose to name it Hypocrea conjusa. 



Hypocrea fusigera B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 993, from Thwaites 44, as " Effusa, 

 tuberculata, pallida, tomentosa, ostiolis fulvis ; ascis lanceo- 

 latis, sporidiis fustfoi-mibus uniseptatis. On leaves of some 

 Monocotyledon. Peradeniya, November, 1867. Sporidia 75 [x 

 long. This species approaches Nectria. Perithecia some- 

 times immersed, sometimes prominent." 



Specimens have been collected recently on dead stems of 

 Amomum. The stromata are effused, pulvinate, tuberculate, 

 irregularly oval, up to 7 mm. long, and 4 mm. broad, or conflu- 

 ent in large patches, often with small outlying stromata, which 

 contain only one loculus, cream-coloured or pinkish -white, 

 somewhat pellucid, with scattered, fuscous ostiola ; margin 

 sometimes tomentose, usually glabrous ; ostiola not projecting. 

 When dry, they become more flattened and more strongly 

 tuberculate, and pale reddish-ochraceous. The perithecia 

 are globose or ovoid, 0*25-0 '3 mm. broad, 0'3-0"4 mm. high, 

 rather distant. The asci are clavate, apex rounded, 170-180 

 X 20 [)., eight-spored, with spores at flrst obliquely uniseriate, 

 afterwards irregularly fasciculate. The spores are hyaline, 

 fusoid, ends obtuse, one -septate^ slightly constricted at the 

 septum, not separating into two, straight or slightly curved, 

 72-110 X 11-13 [>.. Short linear paraphyses, about 30 jjl 

 long, are present. 



Berkeley and Broome's spore measurement is 75 [>.. In 

 Saccardo it is said to be 7 • 5 ^. 



Hypocrea palmicola B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 994, but it is published there as Hypocrea 

 palmicola B. & C. There does not appear to have been any 

 previous publication of the species, and " B. & C." is no doubt 



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