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mm. diametei', and even ; the Hypocrella stromata are up to 5 mm. 

 diameter, tul^erculate, and glabrous. In Herlj. Berlin, a specimen 

 collected in Java by Koorders is marked Hypocrdla v. Aschersonia 

 Eandise Koord. A specimen from Brisbane, included under H. 

 discoidea at Kew, is most probably this species ; it is marked 

 " In the House of Acclimatization on a Japan Orchid," the 

 specimens are hemispherical, tuberculate to almost smooth, 

 minutely toraentose, brownish-red with a narrow white fibrUlose 

 margin ; internally it shows a broad pvirplish peripheral zone in 

 section ; it appears to be sterile, but Berkeley has noted that the 

 spores are 10-12 • 5 ^ long. 



Hypocrella javanica {Aschersonia stage) was collected by 

 Thwaites at Nuwara Eliya (Thwaites 256) and forwarded to 

 Berkeley and Broome, who referred to it, in Fungi of Ceylon, suh 

 No. 1027, as " the stylosporous form of some Nectria.'^ The type 

 of Aschersonia Coffeos in Herb. Berlin, on Coffea Liherica, Java, 

 contains small specimens, rather flattened, up to 1 mm. diameter, 

 including a narrow hypothallus up to 0* 1 mm. wide ; the hypo- 

 thallus is slightly ochraceous or orange ; Hennings gives the 

 length of the basidia as 20-40 [/,, but they do not appear to exceed 

 20 ^. Aschersonia pediculoides P. Henn., type in Herb. Berlin, 

 on Jambosia vulgaris, Java, now contains minute, flattened, 

 almost discoid specimens, up to 0*6 mm. diameter, with a broad 

 fibrillose hypothallus, uj) to • 8 mm. wide, giving a total diameter 

 of about 2 mm., as stated by Hennings. Both in A. Cofjese 

 (type) and A. pediculoides the small specimens n^ay have ordy a 

 single central pycnidium. Aschersonia Eugenisc Koord., type in 

 Herb. Berlin, on Eugenia cymosa and Eugenia polyantha Java, 

 contains specimens up to 1 • 5 mm. diameter, hemispherical, 

 flattened above or almost discoid, orange, paler below, becoming 

 red-brown above, witli a rather stout hypothallus up to 0*5 mm. 

 wide ; the first of these gatherings is on the scale, Vinsonia 

 stelUfera Westw., the second on Lecanium sp. 



Parkin's Aschersonia Xo. 4, p. 39, on Lecanium {? coffese) on 

 leaves and stems of Tea, Darjeeling, is this species ; the stromata 

 are up to 4 mm. diameter and 2 • 5 n^m. high ; none of them has a 

 conspicuous hypothallus, but some have a narrow swollen ring 

 round the base ; some of these are much larger than any other 

 non-tuberculate examples. Parkin's Aschersonia B. 2, on 

 Lecanium hemisphsericum var. coffees on Tea, Upper Assam, and 

 B. 3, on Lecanium on Tea stem, Kiirseong, India, are also A. 

 Coffese. In Herb. Peradeniya are specimens on Eriochiton 

 these Green, on Tea, Assam, and on Lecanium hemisphsericum on 

 SchizcBa digitata, Ceylon. In Herb. Pusa this species is represented 

 by a gathering onLecanium sp. on Tea, Jorhat district, Assam, coll. 

 A. C. Tunstall. 



A specimen in Herb. Kew, marked Aschersonia Ayresii Berk., 

 may possibly be this species. It was collected in Mauritius and 

 bears the inscription " Sclerotmm archidacearum Aj'res. On an 

 Angrsecum, Port Louis, 1862." The stromata are clustered, two- 

 thirds globose, or distorted by mutual pressure, dusky red-brown. 



