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minutely tomentose, smooth, hard, internally reddish, yielding a 

 yellow extract with potash. They appear to be quite sterile, and 

 their reference to this species is doubtfvil. 



Hypocrea armeniaca B. & C. (Amer. Acad. Art & Sci., Boston. 

 IV. (1858), p. 12 8), on living leaves of Apocyneae, Bonin Islands, 

 type in Herb. Kew, is an Aschersonia on Lecanium sp. The 

 specimens are minute, about 0*5 mm. diameter. They resemble 

 small .specimens of Aschersonia Coffese, hut are apparently sterile. 

 Hypocrea armeniaca B. & C, Grevillea, IV., p. 15, is a totally 

 different species. 



Aschersonia. Suzukii Miyabe and Sawada, from Formosa, is 

 Aschersonia Coffese, according to the type collection in Herb. 

 Sapporo. The specimens are .small, not exceeding 2-5 nam. 

 diameter, but have the typical conidia and conidiophores. There 

 is another collection in Herb. Sapporo, suh Aschersonia Aleyrodis, 

 said to be on Aspidiotus aurantH on Citrus nohilis. 



Distribution. — Java, in Herb. Berlin {Hypocrella v. Aschersonia 

 Bandise, A. Coffese, A. pediculoides, A. Eugenise). Ceylon, in 

 Herb. Peradeniya India, in Herb. Pusa and Herb. Peradeniya. 

 ? Queensland, in Herb. Kew [sub H. discoidea). Fonnosa, in Herb. 

 Sapporo. 



Figures. — Plate 2, fig. 6, smooth Aschersonia stage, ex type of 

 Aschersonia Eugenise, X 6; Plate 2, fig. 11, Hypocrella stage, 

 Ceylon specimen, x 6; Tlate 4, Gg. 23, Hypocrella, x 3; Plate 5, 

 fig. 63, pycnospores, x 1000. 



Hypocrella Gartneriana Moller, Phycomyceten und Ascomy- 

 ceten (1901), p. 299. — Stroma globose, light yellow, fleshy, 

 several centimetres diameter, covered with large, close-set, 

 pulvinate or clavate processes. Perithecia situated at the 

 outer ends of the processes, scattered, half or wholly immersed, 

 globose, about 350 [t. diameter, with a short neck. Ascus 180 \>. 

 long, four-spored. Part-spores 4-6 X 1'5 [j,, rod-hke, not 

 separating within the ascus. 



The above description is from Moller, loc. cit. The type 

 specimen, which I have not seen, is said to be in the spirit collec- 

 tion in Herb. Berlin. Apparently only one example was found. 

 Holler's figure shows that it was about 3 cms. in diameter, exceed- 

 ing anything else yet recorded in this genus. From the figure 

 showing the cross section, the processes occupy more than half the 

 total thickness of the stroma, and are inflated outwards, so that 

 deep sinuses appear between them in section. In a slide lent me 

 by Prof. Moller, the perithecia are oval, 350-400 ^ deep, with 

 projecting ostiola, the wall of the perithecium being deep yellow- 

 brown. The asci were immature, but some appeared to have 

 more thanfour spores ; unfortunately the slide would not admit of 

 a high magnification. MoUer's description of the part-spores, 



