23(5 FETCH : 



Puccinia nakanishikii Diet. 



On leaves of Cytnhopogon confertijlorus Stapf., Hakgala. 

 September, 1008, May. 1910. On Andropogon intermedms 

 Br., uredo only, Peradeniya, April, 1909. 



Puccinia longicornis Pat. & Har. ? 



Uredo only. On leaves of Bamhusa arundinacea Willd., 

 Peradeniya, January, 1910, &c. On Bamhusa vulgaris Schrad. , 

 Katukende, January, 1912. 



Spots pale brown, linear. Sori minute, chiefly hypophyl- 

 lous, oval or circular, about 2 x 0*1 mm., pale ferruginous. 

 Spores oval or pyriform, sometimes spherical, epispore hyaline, 

 spinulose, contents yellow, 30-35 x 19-22;;.. Paraphyses 

 hyaline, curved, clavate, often irregularly nodulose, thick- 

 walled, GO-70 X 10-12ij., almost solid, the cavity occupying 

 one-half to two-thirds the length and situated nearer the 

 concave side of the paraphysis. This Uredo was recorded by 

 Berkeley and Broome as Lecythea Baryi Berk., on Bamhusa 

 Thouarsii (— Bambusa vulgaris), Fungi of Ceylon, No. 828. 



(Puccinia Tremandrae B. & Br. 



This was described l)v Jierkeley and J^roomc on leaves of 

 Tremandra oppositifolia, supposed to have been collected in 

 Ceylon In W. H. Harvey. It was evident that some mistake 

 had been made, since Tremandra oppositifolia is not a Ceylon 

 plant and has never been grown in the Botanic Gardens ; but 

 as there wa« no specimen of the fungus at Peradeniya, it was 

 impossible to say whether the wrong locality or. the wrong host 

 plant hatl been given. On an cx.iiiiination of the type specimen 

 at Kew, it was found to be marked " Fungus on leaves of 

 Trr.7nandra opposili folia : K.(i.S." Iveferencc to the phanero- 

 gamic collection disclosed the f;ict (hat Harvey had collected 

 several examples of Tremandra oppositifolia, but these had all 

 been gathered at King George's Sound. The fungus is there- 

 fore an Australian, not a Ceylon, species. 



Henniiigs has described Puccinia Pritzciiana , on leaves of 

 Tremawlr(t stdligera R. Br. (= T. oppositifolia), from the 

 neighbourhood of Perth (Western Australia), and stated that 

 it is (juite distinct fiom Puccinia Tn mandrcB fnun Ceylon. 



