tHYPOCREACEiE ZEYLANIC-S:. 135 



Conidiophores veiticillioid, up to 150 jx high, 4 \^ diameter 

 below, septate ; conidia not seen. Perithecia immersed, 

 ostiola projecting, sometimes subsuperficial, hyaline, 

 globose or ovoid, up to 0*4 mm. high, 0*2 mm. diameter ; 

 ostiolum papillaeform.. Asci cylindrio, eight-spored, spores 

 uniseriate or obhquely uniseriate, 100-110 X 6 \i.. Spores 

 narrow-oval, inequilateral, or fusoid, hyaUne, white in mass, 

 one-septate, not, or slightly, constricted, minutely spinulose, 

 ends obtuse without sohd tips, 9-13 x 3-4 \j.. Deviturai, 

 August, 1917 * No. 5338 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



N^OSKOFITZIA. 



Neoskofitzia monilifera (B. & Br.) v. H., Mitt. XIV., p. 38 ; 

 Nectria monilifera B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1007 ; 

 Nectriella monilifera (B. & Br.) Sacc., Michelia, I., i?. 279 ; 

 Dialonectria (Eu-dialonectria) monilifera (B. & C.) Cooke, 

 Grevillea, XII., p. 110 ; Neoskofitzia termitum v. H., Mitt. 

 v., No. 169. ^ 



Calonectria. 



Calonectria rigidiuscula (B. & Br.) Sacc, Micheha, I., p. 313 ; 

 Nectria rigidiuscula B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1024 ; 

 Nectria {Calonectria) rigidiuscula B. & Br., Cooke, Grevillea, 

 XII., p. 107 ; Calonectria sulcata Starb. ; Calonectria Melise 

 Zimm. 



Calonectria volutella (B. & Br.) Sacc, Michelia, I., p. 309 

 Nectria volutella B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1013 

 Lasionectria volutella (B. & Br.) Cooke, Grevillea, XII 

 p. 112. 



Calonectria oodes n. sp. Perithecia scattered, superficial, 

 globose, • 25 mm. diameter, collapsing when dry, subtrans- 

 lucent, lemon-yeUow to orange-yellow, sometimes glabrous, 

 usually covered with hyaline rigid hairs, 20-50 (x long, 5 '^ 

 diameter, tapering upwards to the acute or obtuse apex, 

 shghtly encrusted, often irregularly bent ; ostiolum minute, 

 scarcely evident, a small pore about 10 \>. diameter, furnished 

 wath periphyses ; wall indistinctly parenchymatous, yield- 

 ing large oil drops when crushed. Asci clavate, apex 

 subacute, eight-spored, spores obhquely uniseriate, 70 X 

 6(1)20 (19) 



