240 FETCH : 



C. F. Baker, Fungi Malayana, No. 8, on coccids on Astromia 

 sp., Mt. Maquiling, Philippines, issued as Aschersonia lecanioides, 

 is apparently this species, but is immature. The specimens are 

 up to 7 mm. diameter, and consist of almost plane, circular, 

 tomentose stromata, in the centre of each of which are developing 

 perithecia (?) ; the ostiola project, or are situated in small projec- 

 tions, but in this respect the specimens are matched by part of a 

 gathering of Hypocrella Mollii on Poihos scandens, from Ceylon. 

 I have what is apparently another part of the same Philippine 

 collection, Merrill No. 7,150, in the same condition. 



Distribution. — Ceylon in Herb. Peradeniya. India, in Herb. 

 Peradeniya. Burma in Herb. Pusa and Herb. Peradeniya. 

 Java, in Herb. Berlin {H. Mollii, H. cretacea, Aschersonia phthiu- 

 rioides) ; in Herb. Raciborski {H. cretacea) ; in Herb. Kew {H. 

 cretacea) ; in Herb. British Museum {H. cretacea). Annam, in 

 Herb. Patouillard. Philippines, in Herb. Berlin {A. confluens). 

 and Herb. Peradeniya. Pegu, in'H.eTh.\\.ew {Hypocrea variabilis). 

 Marquesas, in Herb. Kew {sub A. placenta). 



Figures. — Plate 3, fig. 42, specimen ex tjqoe of Hypocrella 

 cretacea, x 6 ; Plate 5, fig. 36, section, X 3 ; Plate 5, fig. 37, 

 section, x 4. 



Hypocrella duplex (Berk.) Fetch. — Stromata pulvinate or 

 subhemispherical, regular, up to 1 "5 mm. diameter, scattered, 

 or clustered and confluent, or coarsely tuberculate (?) ; 

 reddish at the base, pale yellow above, slightly pruinose. 

 Pycnidium single in each stroma, central, globose, about • 4 

 mm. diameter ; pycnospores fusoid, 6-10 x 1-2 [jt, ; paraphyses 

 linear, up to 80 tj. long. Perithecia several in each stroma or 

 tubercle, ostiola yellow-brown, slightly projecting. Peri- 

 thecia pyriform, up to 0-5 mm. deep, 0*2 mm. diameter; asci 

 8-spored ; part-spores cyhndric, 4-8 x 1 • 5-1 • 75 fx. Ascher- 

 sonia duplex Berk., in Handbook, New Zealand Flora, Pt. II., 

 p. 623 (1867). 



The type specimen in Herb. Kew, on leaves of Astelia, contains 

 chiefly minute, simple stromata ; there is a tuberculate mass, 

 with large tubercles, but it seems probable that this represents 

 several stromata fused together. Berkeley stated that the 

 stroma is lobed like a raspberry ; rarely simple, convex, and 

 containing only one cell ; cells variable in size, one or more in 

 each lobe. As far as the specimen now shows, the simple form 

 is the more numerous ; the stromata which contain only one 

 "cell " are pycnidial, while those which contain more than one 

 " cell " are perithecial. Diels No. 6,444 on Icerba brexoides, 

 Queensland, included under Aschersonia australienais in Herb. 



