HYPOCREACE^ ZEYLANIC^. iOl 



Nectria monilifera B. & Br. 



This was described by Berkeley an,d Broome in Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 1007, as " Peritheciis ovatis coccineis ostiolo 

 fusco ; ascis linearibus ; sporidiis globosis levitor granulatis 

 (No. 1105). Apparently on soil, or very rotten wood stained 

 with soil. Peradeniya. Sporidia 37*5-5 [jl diameter, forming 

 a necklace." The first of these measurements is evidently an 

 error for 3 "75 ^. In Saccardo, II., 448, it was entered as 

 Nectriella, while von Hohnel (Mitt. XIV., p. 28) has re- 

 described it as Neoskofitzia monilifera. It has also been 

 re -described in Ann. Perad., V., 336. 



The fungus in the type specimen grew on sandy soil, not on 

 wood. Recent examples have been found on old termite 

 combs, and it is probable that the latter form its usual habitat. 

 The perithecia are superficial, scattered or clustered, at first 

 red, then dirty brown, 150-400 ^ diameter. The asci are 

 cylindric, about 50 x 4-6 ;;,, eight-spored^ with uniseptate 

 spores 7 X 3"5 jjl, which separate into globose, rough, olive- 

 green, or yellow-green, part-spores, 3-3 '5 ^jl. The wall of the 

 perithecium in old examples appears pruinose ; immature 

 specimens bear numerous hairs, up to 50 [l long, 8 [x diameter 

 two- to four-septate, strongly constricted at the septa. The 

 sixteen part-spores in the ascus are uniseriate, or biseriate, 

 the latter due to an obliquely uniseriate arrangement of the 

 original eight spores. 



This appears to be identical with Neoskofitzia termitum 

 V. H., though von Hohnel considers the two species distinct. 



Nectria flavolanata B. & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1008, as " Peritheciis primum villo flavo 

 lanatis, e floccis erectis apice granulatis, conidiophoris ; ascis 

 clavatis ; sporidiis uniseptatis (Nos. 239 b, 1103). On bark. 

 Central Province. The flocci of the indumentum are of two 

 kinds : the one slender, clavate, inarticulate, bearing oblong, 

 sometimes uniseptate, conidia 7*5 [j. long ; others are thicker 

 and articulated, with clavate granulated apices and a ring of 

 granules, some oblong, triseptate, 25 \^ long, others fusiform, 



