9t) FETCH : 



Hypocrea raultiformis B. & Br. 



This was described by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 995, as " Pulvinata, umbrinella, ostiolis puncti- 

 formibus ; peritLeciis immersis vel prominulis ; sporidiis 

 moniliformibus. Sporidia 3 "75 -^ diameter. There are 

 slight differences in the specimens ; but the fruit agrees in all." 

 They cited Thwaites 1094, 1095, 1096, 33 in part. 



Nos. 1094 and 1095 were part of Thwaites 5. Berkeley and 

 Broome cited 5, 1094 in part, for their Hypocrea citrina var.. 

 and 5 in part for Hypocrea albofulva B. & Br., Hypocrea 

 discella B. & Br., and Hypocrea catoptron B. & Br. 



In Herb. Kew and Herb. Peradeniya, Thwaites 1094 

 appears to be all Hypocrea citrina var. and Hypocrea albofulva. 

 Similarly, in both herbaria, Thwaites 1095 is Hypocrea discella 

 and Hypocrea catoptron, some of the latter very immature. 



No. 1096 was part of Thwaites 33, another part being 

 No. 1097, Hypocrea jecorina. The specimens in 1096 are not 

 quite mature, but they appear to be the species described 

 here as Hypocrea mellea. 



The only species in this collection which has prominent 

 perithecia is Hypocrea discella. It may be that there is another 

 species in Thwaites 1094 in Herb. Kevf or Herb. British 

 Museum, to which the name Hypocrea multiformis might be 

 applied, but in view of the mixture cited by Berkeley and 

 Broome, it would seem preferable to discard the name. 



Hypocrea albofulva B. & Br. 



This was described by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 996, from Thwaites 5 in part. Their description 

 is " Subtus sub-byssoidea , supra pallida, peritheciis fulvis 

 notata : sporidiis globosa. On twigs, Nuwara Eliya. Spori- 

 dia 5 ^ in diameter." 



The stromata, in the herbarium specimens are effused, flat, 

 very thin, irregularly oval or circular, up to 3 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 broad, and 0'2 mm. thick, pale yellow -brown with black 

 ostiola, surface tomentose, with a white byssoid margin, 

 and sometimes interrupted by white byssoid patches. The 

 perithecia are laterally oval,* about 0*15 mm. diameter and 



