220 FETCH : 



Hypocrella javanica (Penz. & Sacc.) Fetch, Ann. Perad., IV., 

 p. 231 (1910). — Stromata hemispherical or two-thirds globose, 

 up to 5 mm, diameter ; when small even, or with scattered, 

 projejtin^ ostiola, when large tuberculate, with close-set 

 rounded tubercles up to • 8 mm. diameter ; minutely pruinose 

 at first, becoming glabrous ; often surrounded, in the case of 

 small specimens, by a narrow byssoid hypothallus ; rather 

 soft in the Aschersonia stage, becoming hard ; orange or red- 

 brown, internally yellow with a reddish peripheral zone. 

 Pycnidial orifices circular, scattered, sunk, up to 0*2 mm. 

 diameter; pycnidia oval or sub-pyriform, up to 0*5 mm. 

 deep, 0'2-0'3 mm. diameter ; pycnospoies narrow-oval, ends 

 pointed, 9-14 x 2-3 '5 \^\ basidia up to 20 \i. high, usually 

 simple, 1-2 [/, diameter, tapering upwards ; pycnospores 

 extruded in isolated yellowish masses. Perithecia several in 

 each tubercle, ostiola red-brown, slightly projecting ; peri- 

 thecia flask-shaped, up to 0"5 mm. deep, 0" 35-0* 4 mm. 

 diameter ; asci up to 180 X 7-12 (j. ; part-spores oblong-oval, 

 ends rounded, 8-10 X 2*5-3 [j.. Fleischeria javanica Penz. 

 & Sacc, Maljjighia (1901), p. 230 ; Hypocrella vet Aschersonia 

 Randies Koord., in Herb. Berlin. Aschersonia stage — 

 Aschersonia Cojfese P. Henn., Hedwigia (1902), p. 145 ; 

 Aschersonia pediculoides P. Henn., Hedwigia (1902), p. 145; 

 Aschersonia Eugenise Koord., Bot. Untersuch. (1907), p. 214 ; 

 Aschersonia Suzukii Miyabe and Sawada, Jour. Coll. Agric, 

 Tohuku Imp. Univ., V., p. 80. 



In my preliminary note, Hypocrella javanica and Aschersonia 

 Cojfeae were kept distinct. Except for the absence of a hypo- 

 thallus, the smaller pycnidial stromata of H. javanicO' are in- 

 distinguishable fron^ A. Cojfess. The hypothallus is, however, a 

 variable feature in A. Coffegs, reduced in some cases to a verj' 

 narrow swollen ring, and this latter form can be matched in 

 recent gatherings of Hypocrella javanica in Ceylon. The stout 

 basidia and large spores distinguish the Aschersonia stage from 

 other Aschersonias of the same shape. Potash colovirs a section 

 purple, especially round the margin. 



The type of Fleischeria javanica was collected in Ja\a, on living 

 branches of an undetermined tree, Tjibodas. I have not seen 

 the type, but what is undoubtedly the same species is common in 

 the jungle at Hakgala, Ceylon, at an elevation of 6.600 feet, 

 usually on Lecamum olese on leaves and stems of Allophylus 

 zeylanicus L. The Aschersonia stromata are usuallv minute, 1-2 



