hypocreact:^ zeylanicje. Ill 



at the base, and built up of two or three layers of polygonal 

 cells up to 40 [K diameter, or they may be reduced to single cells 

 projecting from the perithecial wall. The asci are clavate, 

 shortly pedicellate, 55-70 X 12 [x, eight-spored, with spores 

 obliquely uniseriate, or uniseriate below and biseriate above, 

 There are no true paraphyses. The spores are, in general, 

 narrow-oval or oblong-oval, ends obtuse, not constricted at 

 the septum, hyaline, becoming pale broAvnish, 12-16 X 6-7 [l. 

 A few spores have more rounded ends, and are constricted at 

 the septum. 



In the type of Nectria stenospora in Herb. Kew von Hohnel 

 found specimens of a Nectria which he assigned to Nectria 

 luteococcinea v. H. These specimens are identical with 

 Nectria hasmatococca B. & Br. They have exactly the same 

 warts, and their spores measure 12-15 x 6-7 [/,. Accepting 

 von Hohnel's determination, Nectria luteococcinea is identical 

 with Nectria hgematococca. 



In Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1016, Berkeley and Broome recorded 

 Nectria Peziza Fr. (No. 29 in part). There is no Ceylon 

 specimen in the cover of Nectria Peziza in Herb. Kew, but in 

 the cover of Nectria Jixmatococca there is No. 29, marked 

 " Nectria Peziza," with " hsematococca " written by Berkeley 

 above the specific name. These specimens are Nectria 

 hgematococca. There are also Ceylon specimens of N. 

 hsematococca in the cover of Nectria sanguinea in Herb. Kew. 



In Annals Peradeniya, III., p. 4, the writer described 

 Nectria diversispora Fetch from dead stems of Hevea and Tea. 

 This species has exactly the same perithecia as N. hsemato- 

 cocca, but its spores are slightly smaller, and frequently differ 

 considerably in shape. In some gatherings they measure 9-12 

 X 4-5 [)., and are oval, often constricted at the septum, some- 

 times with one cell larger than the other, and with one or both 

 ends broadly rounded. In others they are broader, seldom 

 constricted, 9-10 X 5-6 \i.. Another gathering has spores 

 9-13 X 5-6 [J., broadly oval, not constricted. The asci are 

 usually about 50 X 8 ;jl, the measurement given in the 

 description being an error. These gatherings grade up so 

 closely to Nectria hxmatococca that it is not possible to 

 maintain the two species distinct. 



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