ADDITIONS TO CEYLON FUNGI (ll.)- 291) 



Zukalia Rubi n. ^p. 



Spots browiiish-red, hypophyilous, sometimes extending 

 over the whole under surface of the leaf ; mycelium hyaline, 

 scanty. Perithecia scattered, globose, about 0'25 mm. 

 diameter, black, bearing, especially towards the apex, simple, 

 septate, brown, almost equal, obtuse appendages, up to 

 75 X 5 JJ- ; wall parenchymatous. Asci cylindrico-clavate 

 with a short, often curved, foot, eight-spored, spores obliquely 

 uniseriate, 60-66 X 10-12 ^. Spores hyaline, fusoid, three- 

 septate, not constricted, 18-20 x 4 !^. 



On leaves of Rubus moluccanus L., Hakgala, April, 1917 ; 

 No. 5261 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



? Zukaliopsis Heveae n. sp. 



Mycelium forming a superficial, separable, felted, rathei" 

 dense covering over the whole upper surface on the leaf, 

 blackish -brown to olivaceous, with a white shining margin ; 

 basal hyphse hyalme, regular, about 3 \x. diameter, without 

 hyphopodia, passing into branching chains of hyaline or 

 fuscous moniliform cells, 6-10 X 5-6 ^. Perithecia 0'3 mm. 

 diameter, flattened globose or discoid, depressed in the 

 centre, black, minutely rugose, astomate, with a few hyaline 

 radiating hyphse at the base ; Wall parenchymatous, cells not 

 radial, circularly arranged round the apex, with a patch of 

 small clavate cells which simulate periphyses. Asci clavate, 

 attenuated below, eight-spored, 96-120 x 20-26 jjl ; para- 

 physes linear. Spores hyalme, muriform, with four to nine 

 transverse septa, and longitudinal septa in all but the terminal 

 cells, or in only three of the upper, oblong oval, 22-30 X 8-9 l^. 

 or ovato-fusoid, 32-48 X 14-18 ji, constricted at the septa., 

 with a thick mucous coat. 



On leaves of Hevea brasiliensis Muell.-Arg., Hewagam, 

 October, 1918, &c.; No. 5798 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Spkasriacese. 



Physalospora Cyperi n. sp. 



Spots up to 2 ram. diameter, oval or circular, sometimes 

 confluent ; epidermis blistered and Avhitish. Perithecia im- 

 mersed, crowded, black, up to 0"3 mm. diameter, with pale 



