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The wall is red-brown when mountedj stout, but composed of 

 rather small cells The yellow covering consists of somewhat 

 loosely built warts, composed of large, very thick-walled 

 cells. 



The asci are narrow-clavate, eight-spored, with obliquely 

 uniseriate spores, 110 X 9-10 [k. The spores are oval, ends 

 obtuse, one-septate, scarcely constricted, somewhat attenuated 

 towards one end, wall striate, 24-28 X 8-9 [k in the type 

 specimen. 



Berkeley and Broome described the spores as quadrinucleate, 

 and hence it is listed in Saccardo as Calonectria. Cooke 

 (Grevillea, XII., p. 107) included it in Lepidonedria . This is 

 a common species on Leguminous trees in Ceylon, and 

 frequently parasitic. I have never observed other than one- 

 septate spores. The asci are sometimes four-spored, and the 

 spores most generally 17-25 X 8-9 \j.. In a collection fi'om 

 Hapugastenna, No. 2936, the wall is yellow when mounted, 

 the asci 55-65 x 8-10 ^., and the spores 12-18 x 5-6 \x. 



Nectria cinnabarina Fr. 



This species was recorded for Ceylon by Berkeley and 

 Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1022, from Thwaites 1102 in 

 part. 



The specimen in Herb. Kew is apparently that referred to 

 under Nectria sanguinea. It is marked 29 and labelled 

 " N. sanguinea, cinnabarina." The corresponding specimen in 

 Herb. Peradeniya is marked 1102 (29 part), and contains 

 Nectria striatospora Zimm. and Nectria pulcJierrima B. & Br. 

 Thus, the number 29 on the Kew specimen is due to the 

 fact that Thwaites 29 was a composite collection which he 

 subsequently divided, one of the parts being then numbered 

 1102. 



Cesati recorded Nectria cinnabarina for Ceylon, from speci- 

 mens collected by Beccari on Pidurutalagala. He added the 

 note : " De N. pytirode Montg. suspicatus sum, quge autem 

 ascos clavatos 4-sporos gerit, sporidiaque magis cymbiformia." 

 These specimens have not been re-examined. 



