128 FETCH : 



? Nectria ostiolorum Berk. & Cooke. Perithecia scattered, 

 superficial, globose, 0'2 mm. diameter, -orange yellow, 

 amber-coloured when dry, subtranslucent, more or less 

 pruinose with scattered, projectmg, or adherent, cells. Wall 

 hyaline by transmitted light, of rather large cells up to 12 {x 

 broad. Ostiolum minute, conical. Asci clavate, eight- 

 spored, spores uniseriate, obliquely imiseriate, or biseriate, 

 40-50 X 6-8 [L. Spores oval, hyaline, one-septate, not con- 

 stricted at the septum, minutely verrucose, 8-13 X 4 (jl. 

 On a decaying Xi/laria, Hakgala, April, 1912 ; No. 3542 in 

 Herb. Peradeniya. 



The specimen distributed in Baker, Fmigi Malayana, 

 No. 166, Supplement, as N^^ria episxiihseria (Tode) Fr., on 

 Eutypella heteracanfJia on Citrus decumana (det. Saccardo) 

 is this species m the set in Herb. Peradeniya. It differs 

 completely from Nectria episphxria as described by Seaver 

 in Mycologia, I., p. 65. 



I have placed this species provisionally under Nectria 

 ostiolorum Berk. & Cooke. It agrees with their brief descrip- 

 tion, except that the perithecia are not notably " Ostiolo 

 pertuso " ; the latter character might, however, be due 

 to age. 



(4) Hyphonectria. 



Nectria byssicola B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1025 ; Bysso- 

 nectria {Hyphonectria) byssiseda (B. &. Br.) Cooke, Grevillea, 

 XII., p. 109. 



Nectria albofulta n. sp. Perithecia globose, or broadly conoid, 

 scattered or in small groups on a well-developed, white, 

 byssoid subiculum, minute, 0*15 mm. diameter, yellowish- 

 red to blood red, translucent, very minutely rough ; 

 ostiolum minute, conical. WaU of perithecium thin, com- 

 posed of largo cells, the external cells sometimes produced 

 into conical processes up to 30 [i high. Asci clavate, 

 scarcely pediceUed, eight-spored, 45-50 X 7-8 [k. Spores 

 narrow-oval to subfusoid, one-septate, shghtly constricted 

 at the septum, ends obtuse, 9-11 X 3-4*5^. On dead 

 stems of Beloperone oblongata, Peradeniya, February, 1917 ; 

 No. 4958 in Herb. Peradeniva 



