HYPOCREACEjE ZEYLANICi^. 117 



pale yellowish -white, subglobose, 0*25 mm. diameter, covered 

 with large, more or less compact, rounded warts. In the type 

 the asci are clavate, shortly pedicellate, inflated at the base, 

 four-spored, 80 x 14 ^, with linear paraphyses. The spores 

 are hyaline, oblong-oval or subcymbiform, ends rounded, 

 three-septate, not constricted, 24-28 x 8-9 [x. 



The perithecia are sometimes superficial, sometimes on 

 linear stromata emerging through cracks in the bark. In 

 No. 3015 in Herb. Peradeniya, the asci are 90-100 x 9-11 ^, 

 four-spored, with spores 19-28 x 7-11 [>., the shorter spores 

 usually the broader, e.g., 19-23 X 10 \k, and 21-28 x 7-8 ^. 

 In another collection the asci are four-spored, with spores 

 24-30 X 9-10 [K, three -septate, with occasionally four- 

 septate spores, 29-31 X 9 \j.. Specimens developed in 

 culture had asci 85-110 x 8-12 p., four-spored, with spores 

 19-29 X 8-10 [J.. 



This species is probably identical with Calonedria fiavida 

 Mass., recorded on Cacao from the West Indies, but apparently 

 not described. Its Fusarium stage appears to be the same as 

 Spicaria colorans de Jonge. It has already been recorded as 

 Calonectria rigidiustula B. & Br. in Ann. Perad., VI., p. 172. 



Nectria byssicola B, & Br. 



This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in 

 Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1025, as " Csespitosa, pallide aurantiaca, 

 e strato tenui byssoideo oriunda ; peritheciis furfuraceis 

 collabentibus ; sporidiis angustis uniseptatis. Sporidia 12 '5 

 ;jL long, 3-4 [X wide." It was part of Thwaites 173. The 

 specimen in Herb. Peradeniya contains Nectria byssicola, 

 Nectria confusa, N. subquaternata, Megalonecfria pseudotrichia, 

 and N. dealbata. 



The perithecia are globose, 0'4 mm. diameter, bro^vnish-red, 

 pruinose, subtranslucent, scattered, or clustered in pulvinate 

 groups, on a thin, indefinite, whitish film of mycelium. The 

 wall of the perithecium is composed of small cells, and bears 

 small rounded warts of small, or collapsed, cells, about 50 ^j. in 

 diameter and 30 [). high. When mounted the wall appears 

 yellow. The asci are narrow-oval, scarcely pedicellate, 



