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Aschersonia : subgenus Eu-aschersonia. 



Aschersonia badia Pat., Journal de Botanique(1897),p.370. — 

 Stromata discoid, circular, up to 3 mm. diameter and 0" 5 mm. 

 high, sometimes with a slight whitish fibrillose hypothallus ; 

 upper surface plane, or depressed in the centre, or occasionally 

 radially grooved, minutely tomentose ; yellow-brown or 

 reddish-brown, blackening when old. Pyenidial orifices dark, 

 up to O'l mm. diameter, circular, arranged in a circle or 

 scattered. Pycnidia globose, 0'25 mm. diameter, with a 

 short conical neck, about 0" 1 mm. long ; pycnospores narrow- 

 oval or lanceolate, 10-13 x 2-2*5 [x ; paraphyses up to 100 ^ 

 long. Hypocrea variabilis Currey (in part), Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, Ser. 2, Vol. I. (1876), p. 130. 



The type specimen, in Herb. Patouillard, is on a Dilleniaceous 

 plant from Tonkin ; many of the specuxiens are blackish -brown, 

 but are parasitized by a Cladosporitim ; some small white speci- 

 mens in the type are HypocreUa Mollii. Hypocrea variabilis, in 

 Herb. Kew, from Pegu on Bamboo, contains both Aschersonia 

 badia and HypocreUa Mollii, as does also a specimen from tlie 

 Philippines, Norzagaray, Province of Bulacan, Herb. Bureau of 

 Science, No. 10,838. The latter specimen is on an Aleyrodes on 

 bamboo ; some of the stromata have a slight whitish fibrillose 

 hypothallus; the paraphyses reach 80 ^. Parkin's Aschersonia 

 A 4, p. 37, on Aleyrodes sp. on Memecylon capitellatum, Ceylon, 

 contains Aschersonia badia as well as A. placenta. Another 

 Ceylon gathering, on Aleyrodes sp. on Antidesnia, has the 

 pyenidial orifices elevated in one specimen ; a single stroma of 

 HypocreUa discoidea occurred with these. 



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

 Patouillard. Philippine Islands, m Herb. Peradeniya. Pegu, in 

 Herb. Kew (Hypocrea variabilis in part). 



Figures. — Plate 3, fig. 47, Pliilii)pine specimen, x 6; Plate 5, 

 fig. 50, section, x 6. 



Aschersonia crenulata Pat. & Har., Journal de Botanique 

 (1900), p. 244. — Stromata circular, discoid, up to 1"75 mm. 

 diameter and 0*5 mm. high, often depressed in the centre, 

 margin rounded and somewhat crenate or incised at the upper 

 edge ; slightly contracted below, minutely tomentose ; pale 

 purple-gray or purple-brown, internally fuscous. Pyenidial 

 orifices circularly arranged, dark, sunk. Pycnidia globose, 



