230 PETCH : 



Uromyces Blainvilleae Berk. 



On Blainvilleo JntifoUa DC, Batticaloa. 1858 (Thwaites). 



Uromyces bidentis Lagh. 



Uredo. On leaves of Bidens pilosa L. , Pas^ara, April , 1908 ; 

 Hakgala, September, 1908. 



Uromyces echinulatus Niessl. 



On leaves of Bassia lotigifolia L., Peradenija, June, 1908. 



Spots up to 5 mm. diameter, upper surface purple-red with 

 a yellowish margin, lower surface purple and swollen. Sori 

 encircling the spot, hypophyllous , purphsh than black, 

 minute, surrounded by the upturned epidermis. Spores 

 black in mass, dark brown when magnified, pyriform, covered 

 with scattered conical spines about 3[;- high, apex of spore 

 thickened, 38-40 X 27-28^. ; pedicel deciduous, sometimes a 

 short remnant persisting. 



The cuneate spores with a long pedicel, referred to in the 

 original description, are immature. H. & P. Sydow consider 

 that the fmigus is a Uredo only (Ann. Myc, VI., p. 139). 



Uromyces Sclerise P. Henn. ? 



The species recorded by Berkeley and Broome, on Scleria 

 zeylanica Poir., Pasdun Korale, July, 1868. under the name of 

 Uredo rubigo vera DC, is probably Uromyces Sderice P. Henn. 

 (Uredo only). 



Uromyces linearis B. & Br. 



On Panicum re'pens L., Peradeniya, March, 1868 (Thwaites). 

 On Panicum repens, Passara, April, 1908 ; Hakgala, 

 September, 1908, May, 1910. A Uredo on Panicum montanuvi 

 Roxb., Peradeniya, April, 1909, probably belongs to this 

 species. 



Sori linear, dark bro^\^^, long. Urcdospores thick-walled, 

 yellow-brown, somewhat fuscous, echinulate, globose, 20-25^. 

 or ovoid, 21-27 x 17-21^;.. Teleutosporesdarkycllow-bro\ATi, 

 smooth, wall 4(j, thick, 5[jl at the apex, sometimes slightly 

 apiculate, globose, 21-30(A, or ovoid, 25-28 X 20-2 1 [x ; pedicel 

 tapering, thick-walled, yellow-brown, 25-48[j. long, up to 9[j, 

 diameter above, 4(j. diameter below. 



