322 FETCH : 



Tubercularia nigro-maculans n, sp. 



Spots small, circular, 2-3 mm. diameter, depressed, upper 

 surface black surrounded by a yellow-green zone, lower 

 surface black with a gray centre. Sporodochia amphigenous, 

 chiefly hypophyllous, minute, erumpent, crowded in clusters 

 up to 0' 4 mm. diameter, pale pinkish, parenchymatous below. 

 Conidia oval, hyaline, 4-5 X 2-2*5 (jl ; basidia simple, fusoid, 

 8 X 3 IX. 



On leaves of Ficus Tsjakela Burm., which it defoliates, 

 Peradeniya, April, 1918 ; No. 5692 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Tuberculina viridis n. sp. 



Acervuli black, pulvinate ; conidia spherical, blackish- 

 green with a large central gutta, 14-18 [k diameter. 



On a Puccinia on Ischasmum ciliare Retz, Hakgala, April. 

 1917 ; No. 5267 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Epidochium Xylarise v. Hohnel var. microspora. 



Acervuli hemispherical, about 0'2 mm. diameter, black, 

 with a white covering of spores ; centre parenchymatous over 

 a small area, the greater part of the stroma composed of radial, 

 stout, branching, compactly arranged, fuscous hyphse. 

 Conidiophores fuscous, 4 [k diameter, slightly inflated at the 

 apex or sometimes lobed. Conidia acrogenous, hyaline, 

 narrow-oval, ends acute, 4-6 X 1*5-2 jx. 



On a Xylaria, Hakgala, April, 1919 ; No. 5950 in Herb. 

 Peradeniya. 

 Cerebella Andropogonis Ces. 



On Andropogon pertusus Willd., Peradeniya, April, 1917 ; 

 No. 5317 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Cerebella Sorghi Tracy & Earle. 



On Sorghum vulgare Pers., Harasbedda, April, 1919 ; 

 No. 5975 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



Cerebella Cynodontis Syd. 



Stromata ovoid, up to 2 mm. long, 1*5 mm. diameter, 

 cerebriform, black. Conidia in permanent clusters usually 

 of four, 12-16 \i diameter ; individual conidia blackish-olive, 

 almost smooth, 8-10 fx diameter. 



On the inflorescence of Cynodon Dactylon Pers., Anuradha- 

 pura, December, 1919 ; No. 6156 in Herb. Peradeniya. 



