NEW CEYLON FUNGI. 7 



ostiolum about 40 li diameter ; spores ejected in a white 

 tendril, at first continuous, hyaline, then elliptical, one- 

 septate, dark gray, 24-28 x 18-14 li ; wall about 3 li thick ; 

 basidia about 10 /< long ; internal parapliyses. 30-50 ft, 

 linear. 



On pods of Theobt'oma cacao, causing brown areas rough 

 with minute hemispherical papillae covering the perithecia ; 

 also on dead seedlings of Hevea brasiliensis. 



Botryodiplodia elastics. — Per corticem in acervulos 

 lineares vel rotundatos, 1*5-2 mill, diam., erumpens ; 

 peritheciis *25--4 mill. diam. polygonatis ; sporulis' 25-30 

 x 14-15 fi, ovatis, uniseptatis, violaceo-brunneis, pariete 

 et septo crasso ; paraphysibus numerosis. linearibu-. 

 10-80 li. 



Bursting through the cortex in linear or rounded masses, 

 1 5-2 mm. diameter, black ; perithecia *25--4 mm. diameter, 

 polygonal ; spores 25-30 x 14-15 li, oval, one-septate 

 violet brown, wall and septum thick ; paraphyses iilMimlrtnr. 

 linear, 40-80 fi. 



On roots of seedlings (stumps) of Hevea brasiliensis ; also 

 as a wound parasite on Castilloa elastica where the perithecial 

 masses in the soft, decaying bark are flat. Apparently the 

 same species occurs in the bark of dead Hevea brasiliensis, 

 in which case, however, it is not erumpent and the white 

 tendril of spores is the only outward indication of its 

 presence. 



Staganospora theicola. — Peritheciis minutis, gre$ 



riis, innatis, nigris, circa *1 mill. diam. ; sporulis nisep- 

 tatis, viridi-hyalinis, oblongis, apicibus rotundatis, rectis vel 

 leniter curvatis, 15-17 x 5 li. 



Perithecia minute, gregarious, innate, black, about 

 •1 mm. diameter; spores three-septate, greenish hyaline. 

 oblong with rounded ends, straight or slightly carved, 

 1 5-17 x 5 li. 



On gray patches on leaves of Then viridisvrith Lcestadia 

 the&, Rac, and Colletotrichum camellia^ Mass. 



