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Tf. olivacra, but differs in colour and in the smooth stroma. The 

 white basal membrane underlies the stroma, and does not appear 

 to be attached to it, in the specimen examined, except in the 

 centre ; it would seem doubtful whether it is really a part of the 

 Hypocrella. Compared with H. palmicola the stroma is more 

 compact, the ostiola less prominent, and the perithecia less 

 crowded. It does not give any colour with potash. 



Distribution. — Java, in Herb, von Hohnel. 



Figures. — Plate 2, fig. 8, specimen eo; type, x 8; Plate 4, fig. 20, 

 section, x 6. 



Hypocrella verruculosa Moller, Phycomyceten and Ascomy- 

 ceten (1901), p. 299. — Yellow-brown, hemispherical, closely 

 tuberculate, a few millimetres diameter. Conidia not seen. 

 Perithecia scattered, completely immersed, elongated flask- 

 shaped, 600 [L deep, including the long neck ; ascus 270-300 [a 

 long, four-spored ; part-spores 12-15 X 3"5 fx, oval. 



The above description is from Moller, loc. cit. I have ua- 

 fortunately not seen the type specimen, which is not included in 

 the dried specimens in Herb. Berlin ; I have since been informed 

 that it is preserved there in alcohol. Holler's figure shows that 

 the species is two-thirds globose, coarsely tuberculate, the 

 tubercles being close set and broadest at the outer end, so that in 

 section the stroma appears furrowed. A slide kindly lent me 

 by Prof. Moller shows that the stroma has a yellow-brown 

 cortex, about • 15 mm. thick, irregularly incised and undulating ; 

 the perithecia are deep-set, and the ostiola sometimes project; 

 the part-spores are narrow-oval, truncate, or almost pointed, 

 10-16 X 3-4 ^ ; some, if not most, of the asci are eight-spored ; 

 some appear four-spored, but it is difficult to determine that with 

 certainty as the sections are unstained ; some of the immature 

 asci do not exceed 170 ^ in length, and the sections show im- 

 mature part-spores measuring only 6 x 1 • 5 ;j,. 



Theissen's " Hypocrella verruculosa,^^ Bick, Fungi Austro- 

 Americani, No. 294, included tinder that name in Herb. Berlin, 

 contains tuberculate specimens of Hypocrella phyllogena only. 

 But MoUer's figures and slides do not show any of the characters 

 of the latter species. Ule 872, St. Cathar, pr. Blumenau is 

 included under Hypocrella verruculosa in Herb. Berlin, with a note 

 by Hennings that it is " ohne perithecien," but a letter from 

 Moller, included with the specinaens, disagrees with the 

 identification ; the specimens are Munkia martyris Speg. Thus, 

 the type specimen is the only gathering of this species known up 

 to the present ; it may, perhaps, be identical with Hypocrella 

 epiphylla. 



Distribution. — Brazil, Blumenau, on stems of bamboo and 

 Olyra. 



Figures. — Plate 4, fig. 15, section, after Moller, x 2. 



