ADDITIONS TO CEYLON FTTNGI fll.). 309 



Micropeltella confluens n. sp. 



Perithecia scattered, circular, up to 0'2 mm. diameter, 

 scutate, dull black, confluent with a thin hyaline amorphous 

 sheet which extends over almost the whole leaf : cover netted, 

 black-brown, becoming yellow-brown towards the margin and 

 merging into the hyaline sheet ; ostiolum circular, minute. 

 Asci ovate, eight-spored, 25 x 12 JJ^ ; paraphyses not seen. 

 Spores subfusoid, ends rounded, hyaline, three septate, 9-12 X 

 3 \L. 



On leaves of Pavetta natalensis Sond., Peradeniya, Novem- 

 ber, 1917 ; No. 5404 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Amazonia peregrina Syd. 



Perithecia hypophyllous, scattered or clustered, superficial, 

 circular, scutate, elevated in the centre, up to 0*6 mm. 

 diameter, black ; coVer membranous, not ostiolate, splitting 

 radially, opaque in the centre, transparent fuscous towards 

 the margin, composed of radial, branching hyphse, 6 [x diameter 

 separating at the margin into bundles of three or four, with 

 interspaces partly filled by hyphopodia. Hyphopodia two- 

 celled, terminal cell globose, up to 9 {Jt diameter, basal cell 

 short. Asci clavate or ovoid, at first thick-walled, soon 

 diffluent, two-spored, 60 X 20 (x. Paraphyses linear, 

 diffluent. Spores black-brown, cylindric, or oblong-oval, ends 

 rounded, four septate, deeply constricted, 36-40 x 16-18 [i. 

 Free mycelium represented only by a narrow fringe round the 

 perithecium. 



On Msesa indica A. DC, Hakgala, April, 1919 ; No. 5974 in 

 Herb. Peradeniya. 



DiscomYcet^. 



PhaBOglossum, gen. nov. Geoglossaceae. 



Clava stalked, expanding above into an ovoid or sub- 

 hemispherical head, which bears a continuous palisade layer 

 of asci and paraphyses. Asci furnished with a pore. Spores 

 continuous, oval, fuscous. 



Phaeoglossum zeylanicum n. sp. 



Stalk up to 1 cm. high, 0'15 mm. diameter, simple, occa- 

 sionally forked, smooth, shining, black, white internally. 

 Head ovoid or sub -hemispherical, merging gradually into the 



