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"not separating in the ascus " indicates inimaturity. The 

 species differs from H. verruculosa chief!}' in the short neck of the 

 perithecium ; otherwise it might be considered a large form of the 

 latter. 



Distribution. — Brazil, on Bamboo. 



Figures. — Plate 4, fig. 16, section, after Moll er, X f. 



Hypocrella Schizostachyi P. Henn., Philippine Journal of 

 Science, III., p. 45 (June, 1908). — Stromata two-thirds globose, 

 strongly botryoso-tuberculate, 1 * 5-2 cms. diameter, very hard, 

 verrucosa ; internally yellowish with an orange-red zone at the 

 periphery ; peritheeia flask-shaped, 0'3 mm. deep, 0' 15 mm. 

 diameter, body comparatively small, nesk long, ostiola slightly 

 projecting. Asci 100-160 X 6-8 [)., eight-spored. Part- 

 spores cylindric to narrow-oval, 5-8 X l'5-2 [i. 



The type specimen, on Schizostachyum sp., from Luzon, is in 

 Herb. Berlin, and the co-type has been kindly furnished me 

 by Prof. E. D. Merrill. Hennings states that the colour is 

 " cinereo-testaceus," but the specimens now are reddish-purple. 



From Prof, von Hohnel I have received specimens, under 

 the MSS. name of Fleischeria purpurea, from Borneo. These 

 are pulvinate or subconoid, 6 mm. diameter at the base and 5 mm. 

 high. The surface is irregulai'ly furrowed, but appears damaged, 

 as though projecting tubercles had been cut off ; one specimen 

 is strongly tuberculate towards the margin, as in Hypocrella 

 Schizostachyi. The colour is blackish -purple, internally reddish- 

 purple, but the specimens had been preserved in alcohol, and the 

 internal colour is evidently to be attributed to the diffusion of 

 colour from the exterior layer, since the masses of asci in the 

 peritheeia are stained, and, in section, appear a deeper colour than 

 the stroma. The stromata are very hard, and their peritheeia 

 and spores agree exactly with those of H. Schizostachyi. In my 

 preliminary paper this was included under //. ceramichroa, but it 

 would appear to agree better with H. Schizostachyi. 



Distribution. — Philippines, in Herb. Berlin and Herb. Pera- 

 deniya. Borneo, in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Figures. — Plate 2, fig. 7, specimen ea; co-type, X 2 ; Plate 4, 

 fig. 17, section, nat. size. 



Hypocrella Amomi Kac, Bull. Akad. Sci. Cracovie (1906), 

 p. 908. — Stromata circular, up to 4 mm. diameter, pulvinate, 

 up to 1 mm. high, bearing up to twelve erect tubercles, each 

 containing one perithecium ; tubercles clavate, flattened at 

 the apex, up to 0" 3 mm. high, 0"3-0"4 mm. diameter at the 

 apex, the whole surrounded by a very thin hypothallus, which 



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