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The specimen was part of Thwaites 647, a number which 

 provided Nectria stenospora, Nectria trichospora, Nectria 

 sanguinea, Nectria bicolor, Nectria Bambusse, and Nectria 

 pityrodes var. saccJiariTia. Consequently, as the specimens of 

 Ceylon Nectrias were very imperfectly sorted out, it is to be 

 expected that the parts of Thwaites 647 under the different 

 names will be mixtures of several species, von Hohnel, on an 

 examination of the type of Nectria stenospora in Herb. Kew, 

 found that it contained five species, viz., Nectria stenospora, 

 Nectria bicolor, Nectria luteococci'nea {= N. hsematococca B. & 

 Br.), Galonectria sulcata (= Calonectria rigidiuscula B. & 

 Br.), and Nectria flocculenf a {— Nectria flavolanata B. & Br.). 

 Unfortunately, though von Hohnel marked the position of 

 the last four species on the herbarium sheet, he did not indicate 

 which specimens he took to be Nectria stenospora, and there 

 do not appear to be any specimens of the latter now remaining. 



According to von Hohnel (Mitt. XIV., p. 31), Nectria 

 stenospora occurs very sparingly in the type specimen. The 

 perithecia are situated in small groups on a feebly developed, 

 erumpent stroma, and are cinnabar-red, globose, not collaps- 

 ing, smooth, 250 to 280 jj, broad, with a small, flat, ostiolar 

 papilla. The cells of the perithecial wall are 8-10 jjt. broad, 

 irregular and thick-walled. The asci are clavate, eight- 

 spored, with biseriate spores, 50-60 X 9-10 \x. The spores 

 are straight, elongated-elliptic, with obtuse ends, not con- 

 stricted at the septum, hyaline, with four or five longitudinal 

 striae, 10-14 x 4-5 [l. 



It will be noted that von Hohnel's description differs in 

 several points from that of Berkeley and Broome. The latter 

 described their species as arising from a white matrix, and 

 having translucent collapsing perithecia, with narrow spores. 

 It would consequently seem doubtful whether von Hohnel's 

 re-description really refers to Berkeley and Broome's species ; 

 it would appear to refer to smooth examples of Nectria flavo- 

 lanata. 



In Circulars of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, 

 Vol. v.. No. 13, p. 147, the writer recorded Nectria stenospora 

 on cacao pods in Ceylon. The spores in these specimens were 

 narrow-oval, or often oblongo-fusoid with straight sides ; the 



