] 1^6 FETCH : • 



12 \t.. No paraphyses. Spores hyaline, fusoid or narrow- 

 oval, inequilateral, 5-7-septate, 18-29 x 5-6 [k. On a 

 decaying stem, Peradeniya, June, 1919 ; No. 6009 in Herb. 

 Peradeniya. At first sight appears astomate, and resembles 

 a group of insect eggs. 



Beoomella. 



Broomella niphidium (B. & Br.) Cooke, Grevillea, XII., p. 105 ; 

 Hypoxylon niphidium B. &. Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1067 ; 

 Melogramma niphidium (B. & Br.) Sacc, Syll. Fung., II., 

 p. 646 ; Broomella niphidium (B. & Br.) Petch, Ann. Perad., 

 VI., p. 345. 



GiBBEKELLA. 



Gibberella rugosa n. sp. Perithecia solitary, or clustered in 

 groups up to six, erumpent, without superficial stroma, 

 sometimes with a slight whitish mycehum at the base, 

 minute, 0*15 mm. diameter, ovoid or clavate, rough with 

 prominent rounded warts, indigo or black, wall deep violet 

 by transmitted light, ostiolum not elevated. Asci ovato- 

 clavate, eight-spored, spores biseriate, 64-72 X 14-18 [x. 

 Spores narrow-oval to subcymbiform, three-septate, not 

 constricted at the septa, ends rounded, hyaline, 18-24 x 

 6-8 \)., exceptionally 32 x 8 [>.. On dead twigs, Peradeniya, 

 May, 1915 ; No. 4642 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Megalonectria. 



Megalonectria pseudotrichia (Schw.) Speg. ; Sphserostilhe 

 pseudotrichia Schw., in B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1004 ; 

 Nectria fenestrafa B. & C, in Cooke, Grevillea, XII., p. 81. 



Ophionectria. 



Ophioneetria trichospora (B. & Br.) Sacc, Micheha, I., p. 323 ; 

 Nectria trichospora B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 1014 ; 

 Dialonectria {Ophioneetria) trichospora (B. & Br.) Cooke, 

 Grevillea, XII., p. 111. 



Ophioneetria coecieola Ell. & Ev. 



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