232 PETCH : 



►Sori minute, on red-brown spots when old, scattered, 

 hjrpophyllous. Spores globose, 19-21 ;j.. or oval or pjTiform. 

 20-24 X 10-20'^ echinulate. pale brown or hyaline, rather 

 thick-walled. Paraphyses clavate, septate, thick-walled, 36-50 

 X 12-Ur^. 



Puccinia Lorentzii P. Henn. ? 



Uredo only. Un leaves of Vernonia cin^rea Less., Pera- 

 deniya, December, 1908. On leaves of Vernonia Wightiana 

 Am., Hakgala, May, 1910. Differs from the foregoing in the 

 absence of paraphyses. 



Puccinia exhauriens Thiim. 



Un leaves of Ja.sminum flexile Vahl.. Hakgala. May. 1910. 



Puccinia Tabernaemontanae B. & Br. 



On Tabernoemoniana dichotoma Roxb., common. Pera- 

 deniya, Waga, Minuwangoda, &c. 



/Ecidia {JEcidium ceraceum B. & Br.) orange on yellowish, 

 bullate, waxy-looking spots on the leaf, amphigenous, or on 

 strongly swollen areas on the petioles and stems ; crowded, 

 0"3-0"4 mm. diameter, cylindrical, up to 2'r) mm. high. The 

 aecidia on the galls on the stem are usually higher than those 

 on the leaf. Pseudopcridium thin, hyaline, laciniate above ; 

 pseudoperidial cells, thin-walled, smooth, irregularly oval or 

 oblong 50-65 x 20-36(j.. .Ecidiospores irregularly oval, 

 verrucose, with large flattened, simple, or elongated and 

 branching warts, 58-76 X 32-38ijl. 



Uredo-sori circular, clustered or scattered, on yellowish 

 green circular spots, chiefly hypophyllous, pa]v l)rown, about 

 0*25 nun. diameter, l^redospores 40-50 X 33-34[ji, brownish 

 yellow, ('(rhinulate. with strong conical spines. 



Teleutosori dark brown, with the uredo. Teleutos])ores 

 re<l<lish brown, oval or slightly clavate, slightly constricted. 

 smooth, 42-50 v 24-27 (x ; pedicel short . 



Puccinia Ruelliae (ii. & Br.) T.agh. 



Uredo : on leaves of Riwtlia ringrns L. (= prostmla). 

 Peradcniya, May. 1910. .Tanuary. 1868 (Thwaites). 



