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(6) Spores coloured, green to greenish-yellow. 



Hypocrea catoptron B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 990. 



Hypocrea palmicola B, & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 994 ; 

 Hypocrea lenta Fr., in B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 992. 



Hypocrea chlorostoma n. sp. Stromata discoid, upper surface 

 slightly convex, even, up to 4 mm. diameter and 0*5 mm. 

 tliick, margin rounded, yellow-brown, then sordid brown, 

 with dark green ostiola, internally yellowish- white, not 

 translucent ; when dry (herbarium specimens) becoming 

 rugose, dark red-brown, ostiola not evident, or blackish- 

 green above and red-brown at the sides, and blackish-green 

 internally. Perithecia globose, 0' 1-0" 15 mm. diameter, or 

 laterally oval, 0'18 mm. diameter, O'l mm. high, deeply 

 sunk in about the middle of the stroma ; perithecial wall 

 greenish-yellow when fresh, yellow-brown in herbarium 

 specimens. Asci, eight-, then sixteen-spored, 60-64 X 4 ^. 

 Spores light green when fresh, blackish-green in herbarium 

 specimens, verrucose, generally globose, 3 "5-4 \}., some oval, 

 4 X 3 tA. On dead wood, Peradeniya, September, 1914 ; 

 No 4109 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Hypocrea mellea n. sp. Stromata subtranslucent, pale yellow- 

 brown or honey coloured with brown ostiola when fresh, 

 becoming red-brown with blackish ostiola when dry, pulvi- 

 nate, up to 4 mm. diameter, margin rounded, attached 

 over nearly the whole base or over a central area about 

 half the diameter of the base ; surface even, sometimes 

 becoming rugose in drying. Internally pale yellow and 

 fleshy when fresh, yellowish- white and corky, or some- 

 times friable, when dry. Perithecia usually vertically oval, 

 up to 0*3 mm. high, 0" 1-0" 15 mm. diameter, sometimes 

 globose, 0*2 mm. diameter, situated at varying depths; 

 perithecial wall yellow-brown. Asci 65-75 x 4 ja. Part- 

 spoies oval 5-6 x 4 (x, or globose 4-5 ^. diameter, spinulose, 

 yellow or greenish-yellow ; extruded spore masses yellow. 

 Hakgala, September, 1908; No. 3006 in Herb. 

 Peradeniya. 



