HYPOCREACE^ ZEYLANIC^. 109 



Saccardo, in Michelia, I., p. 323, made this the type species 

 of the genus Ophidnectria. It was re-described in Ann. 

 Perad., V., p. 285. The perithecia are scattered or clustered 

 on a thin, radiating, red-brouii or whitish, hyssoid stroma ; 

 they are blood red, ovoid, 0*4 mm. high, 0*25 mm. diameter, 

 apex subtruncate, rugose ; ostiolum minute, scarcely evident. 

 Asci 200-250 X 20-25 \},, cylindric, eight-spored. Spores 

 180-240 X 6-8 [L, multiseptate, not constricted, vermiform, 

 either of uniform diameter, or tapering somewhat to either 

 end. 



As previously pointed out, this falls in the genus Tubeufia 

 Penz. ai^ Sacc, which consequently is superfluous. 



Nectria Bambusae B. & Br. 



This was described by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of 

 Ceylon, No. 1015, as " Sparsa, pallide aurantiaco -rubra, conica 

 acuta, glaberima ; ascis brevibus clavatis ; sporidiis minimis. 

 On Bamboo. Sporidia 10 \k long." Thwaites's numbers 29, 

 64, and 647 in part were cited, but this is subject to the 

 correction that 647 was part of 29. In Saccardo, II., p. 450, 

 it was placed in Nectriella. 



The perithecia in the type are superficial, scattered or 

 clustered, orange red to blood red, subtranslucent, conoid, 

 shining, slightly darker round the ostiolum, 0'15 mm. 

 diameter, 0*2 mm. high. A fine, white, cobwebby mycelium 

 spreads over the substratum and the perithecia, but it is doubt- 

 ful whether this belongs to the Nectria. The wall is composed 

 of small, thick-walled cells, and bears a few small processes, 

 about 5 [K high and 4 [j, diameter. The asci are clavate, 

 generally long-pedicelled, 50-65 X 6-8 [k, with obliquely 

 biseriate spores, and furnished with linear paraphyses. The 

 spores are narrow-oval, thin-walled, strongly two-guttulate, 

 8-10 X 3-3 "5 [K. Most of them are immature, but some are 

 clearly one -septate. 



von Hohnel (Mitt. XIV., p. 354) transferred this species to 

 Pseudonectria {Pseudonedria Seaver = Nectriella Sacc, non 

 Fck.), but from the type specimen it is a Nectria, 



