208 FETCH : 



Figures. — Plate 2, iig. 2. flattened form, Ceyloa, x 5 ; Plate 

 2, fig. 3, subglobose forin, Ceylon, x 5 ; Plate 4, fig. 24, section, 

 Ceylon, x 3 ; Plate 4, fig. 25, section, Ceylon, x 4 ; Plate 4, fig. 

 26, section, Ceylon, x 4 ; Plate 5, fig. 62, pycnospores, x 1000. 



Hypocrella epiphylla {Massee)Sacc., Sylloge Fungorum, XI., 

 p. 368 (1895). — Pycnidial stroma 1-4 mm. diameter ; in small 

 specimens hemispherical, or subconoid, or subcylindric, with 

 a single depressed pycnidial orifice at the apex, usually filled 

 with a red-brown mass of spores, upper edge of stroma rounded; 

 in large specimens, two-thirds globose with up to a dozen 

 scattered, sunk, pycnidial orifices; white or buff, or reddish- 

 brown, internally white or yellowish ; minutely pruinose. 

 Pycnidium in the small stromata globose, sometimes widety 

 open, even or convoluted ; in the larger stromata, irregular, 

 expanded and flattened parallel to the surface, or tubular and 

 branching ; pycnospores fusoid, ends tapering and sharplj^ 

 pointed, 10-14 X 3-4 ^. Perithecial stromata sub-hemis- 

 pherical or two-thirds globose, even or sub-tuberculate, bufi 

 or reddish-brown, up to 2 mm. diameter ; ostiola red-brown, not 

 projecting ; no hypothallus ; perithecia flask-shaped with a 

 long neck, ' 4-0 • 6 mm. deep, 0*2 ram. diameter, scattered; 

 part-spores cylmdric or oval, 8-12 X 4 ^. Hypocrea [Clin- 

 toniella) epiphylla Mass., Jour, of Botany, 1892, p. 164, t. 333, 

 figs. 27-30. Aschersonia stage — Aschersonia cubensis Berk. 

 & Curt., Jour. Linn. See, X., p. 351 (1869) ; Aschersonia 

 amazonica P. Henn., Hedwigia (1904), p. 338 ; Aschersonia 

 consociata P. Henn., Hedwigia (1904), p. 338. 



The type specimen of Hypocrea epiphylla Mass. was collected 

 on leaves of Dieffenhachia, Morne Cochon, St. Vincent, by W. R. 

 Elliott. Massee stated that it is " tomento albo basi circmndata"; 

 some of the specimens show that feature, but it is due to a mould 

 wh ch spreads over the fungus and the leaf in a circular patch up 

 to 5 mm. diameter. The specimens examined contained imma- 

 ture pycnidia as well as perithecia, and froixi the original descrip- 

 tion, which gives the spores as 50-55 x 1-5 [/,, it is evident that 

 mature ascospores were not seen. In a collection of Aschersonia 

 cubensis from Trinidad, ex Herb. Thaxter, one specimen is 

 perithecial ; it is reddish-brown, slightly tuberculate ; the 

 perithecia contain loose spores, which are apparently part-spores 

 some of which have germinated and partly filled the cavity with 

 hyphse ; the part-spores are cylindric with rounded ends, or 

 narrow-oval, and measure 8-12 x 4 ^. It is probable that 

 Hypocrella verruculosa is identical with H. epiphylla, but no 



