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Nectrla bomba n. sp. Perithecia scattered or crowded, with- 

 out a stroma, globose, up to 0'3 mm. diameter, not collaps- 

 ing, bright red, opaque, very minutely rugose, sometimes 

 with a few minute yellow granules ; ostiolum conical, on a 

 darker red area, becoming almost black. Wall thick, of 

 rather large cells, up to 12 [>. diameter below, becoming 

 more or less opaque and obscure above. Asci at first 

 subcyluidric, truncate at the apex, eight -si)ored, spores 

 obliquely uniseriate, about 80 X 8 (x. Asci and paraphyses 

 soon diffluent and emerging in a jelly-like mass when the 

 perithecium is compressed. Spores oval to cymbif orm, not, 

 or shghtly, constricted, ends obtuse, 10-16 x 4*5-6 i^l. On 

 a dead Hevea log, Peradei^a, October, 1919 ; No. 6122 in 

 Herb. Peradeniya. 



(3) Lepidonectria. 



Nectria hsematococca B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1018 ; 

 Nedria (Dialonedria) hsematococca (B. & Br.) Sacc, Syll. 

 Fung., II., p. 496 ; Dialonectria (Eu-dialonecfria) hsema- 

 tococca (B. & Br.) Cooke, Grevillea, XII., p. 110; Nectria 

 {Lepidonectria) hiteococcinea v. H., Mitt. XIV., p. 30 ; 

 Nectria diversispora Fetch, Ann. Perad., III., p. 4 ; Nectria 

 cancri Rutgers, Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, Ser. 2, XII., 

 pp. 59-64 (from the description). 

 Nectria subquaternata B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1026 ; 

 Nectria (Lepidonectria) subquaternata (B. & Br.) Cooke, 

 Grevillea, XII., p. 107. 

 Nectria confusa v. H., Mitt. XIV., p. 34 ; Nectria subquater- 

 nata B. & Br., in part, in Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1026. 

 Nectria dealbata B. & Br., Fimgi of Ceylon, No. 1029 ; Nectria 

 (Lepidonectria) dealbata (B. & Br.) Sacc, Syll. Fung., II., 

 p. 504 ; Nectria (Lepidonectria) dealbata (B. & R.) Cooke, 

 GreviUea, XII., p. 107. 

 Nectria Berkeleyi v. H., :Mitt. XIV., p. 17 ; Nectria pifyrodes 

 Mont., var. saccharina B. & Br., in Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1027. 

 Nectria pulcherrima B. & Br., Fimgi of Ceylon, No. 1021 ; 

 Calonectria pulcherrima (B. & Br.) Sacc, Michelia, I., p. 315 ; 

 Nectria (Lepidonectria) pulcherrima (B. & Br.) Cooke, Gre- 

 villea, XII., p. 107. 

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