310 PETCH : 



stalk or truncate at the base, black, smooth, 0* 35-0" 4 mm. 

 high, 0*2-0"4 mm. diameter, white internally, with an outer 

 layer of asci and paraphyses about 65 \i deep, which is fuscous 

 in section. Asci cylindric, shortly pedicellate, furnished with 

 an apical pore, eight-spored, spores obliquely uniseriate, 

 about 40 X 4 t'-- Spores oblong-oval, ends rounded, greenish- 

 olivaceous in mass, fuscous, 7-9 x 3-4 {a. Extruded spores 

 adhere to the head. Paraphyses linear, hyaline, pale oli- 

 vaceous in mass, fused above into a continuous layer. 



Conidial stage stilboid, white ; stalk • 4 mm. high, 0*05 mm. 

 diameter; head sub-globose, 015 mm. diameter. Conidia 

 hyaline, oval, sometimes slightly pointed at one end, 7-9 x 

 3-4 [J.. 



On decaying Loranthus fruits, Hakgala, May, 1912 ; No, 

 3632 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Elsinoe Canavaliae Rac. 



On Canavalia ensiformis DC, Peradeniya, May, 1918 ; 

 No. 5696 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Deuteromycet^. 



Sphgeropsidacege. 



Phyllostieta Mayilae n. sp. 



Spots irregular, red-brown, usually extending from the 

 margin of the leaf. Pycnidia epiphyllous, immersed, black, 

 membranous, 80-100 \^ diameter ; ostiolum about 10 \x 

 diameter. Spores hyaline, continuous, broadly oval, 8-11 x 

 4-6 IX. 



On leaves of Bauhinia sp. (indet.), Peradeniya, August, 

 1917 ; No. 5335 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Phyllostieta disciformis Penz. 



On leaves of Citrus Aurantium L. var. vulgaris Risso, 

 Hakgala, April, 1917; No. 5111. On leaves of Citrus 

 decumana Willd., Hakgala, April, 1917 ; No. 5113 in Herb. 

 Peradeniya. 



Phyllostieta Physaleos Sacc. 



On leaves of Physalis peruviana L., Hakgala, April, 1917 ; 

 No. 5157 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



