224 PETCH : 



may be 2 mm. broad ; yellowish- white, somewhat translucent ; 

 ostiola not projecting, translucent. Perithecia flask-shaped 

 with a long neck, 0"5 mm. deep, 0"2 mm. diameter, wall 

 yellow. Asci up to 400 \i long, 8-10 [^.diameter ; part-spores 

 fusoid, ends tapering and pointed, 13-16 X 1*5-2 [).. 

 Pycnidial stroma discoid, top concave, bordered by a white 

 thin hypothallus ; pycnidium central, ostiolum tubular, 

 labyrinthiform below ; pycnospores fusoid, ends tapering, 

 8-10 X 1 ■ 5-2 [). ; no paraphyses. 



Type specimen, on a scale insea*t on Amomum., Gunung Gakak, 

 Java, ex Herb. Raciborski, examined. The insect was not 

 evident, but there was a single pycnidial stroma present, which 

 iiidicaterl, by the absence of paraphyses, tliat it was parasitic on a 

 species of Lecanium. The type of pj'cnidial stroma is that of A. 

 cubensis, but not so elevated. This species bears a considerable 

 resemblance to Hypocrella hotryosa, but its ascospores (part- 

 spores) are longer. The type collection is not matched by any 

 other gathering seen. 



Distribution. — Java, in Herb. Raciborski. 



Figures. — Plate 2, fig. 5, specimen px type, X 8: P]ate4,fig. 21, 

 section, X 6 ; Plate 5, fig. 60, part-spores, x 900. 



Hypocrella botryosa Syd., Aimales Mj^-cologici, VIII., p. 39 

 (1910). — Stromata irregularly oval or circular in plan, 2-3 mm. 

 diameter, consisting of a central, pulvinate or convex, solid 

 mass, sometimes constricted at the base, from which arise 

 numerous (up to 12) erect or horizontal processes, the whole 

 bordered by a thin, hyaline, horny hypothallus. Processes 

 clavate or ovate, strongly inflated outwards, up to 1 mm. 

 diameter at the distal end, each containing several perithecia. 

 Minutely pruinose, pale ochraceous, somewhat translucent. 

 Ostiola yellow to red-brown, not projecting ; wall of the 

 perithecium pale yellow or almost hyaline. Perithecia flask- 

 shaped, 0"3 mm. diameter, 0*5 mm. deep; asci 130-225 x 

 8-14 y. ; part-spores narrow-oval, ends acute, sometimes 

 almost lozenge shaped, 8-11 X 2*5 ^,. 



The type specimen in Herb. Sydow is from the Philippines, "on 

 leaves of ? Cyperacea?.'' It resembles Hypocrella Amomi, but its 

 processes are strongly inflated at the distal end, sometimes almost 

 globose at the extremity, and each contains several perithecia. 

 The stroma is sometimes constricted at the base, and in that case 

 approaches the stud-shaped stroma of Hypocrella phyllogena. 



