226 FETCH : 



Cintractia Cornu. 

 Cintractia axicola (Berk.) Cornu. 



On Fimbristylis difhylla Valil., Bandarawela, April, 1908. 



In Grevillea, XIX., p. 53, Cooke Myites : " There has been 

 some error in regard to this species. The origmal type speci- 

 men from St. Domingo is not a Cintractia but an Ustilago, as 

 are also Australian specimens. The variety B from Alabama 

 is the Cintractia, from which a fragment must have been sent 

 to M. Cornu, without examination, under the impression that 

 all the specimens under the same name in the Berkeley 

 herbarium were the same species. Hence there are two 

 species, Ustilago axicola (B.) from St. Domingo and Australia, 

 and Cintractia axicola (B.) from North America. The former 

 is probablj' the same as "Ustilago ftmbristylis Thuem." But 

 Mc Alpine, in" The Smuts of Australia," describes and figures 

 the Australian species as Cintractia axicola, (Berk.) Cornu, with 

 the synonyms Ustilago axicola, Berk, and Ustilago fi.mhristylis 

 Thuem. 



Cintractia peribebuyensis Speg. 



On Cyperus distans L.f., September. 1900, leg. C. Drieberg. 



Cintractia leucoderma (Berk.) P. Henn. 



On Rynchospora aurea Vahl., Ratnapura (B. & Br., No. 840). 



Cintractia sorghi-vulgaris (Tul.) Clint. 



On A7idroj)ogoH sorghum Brot., Maha illuppailama, 

 February, 1911. 



Sphacelotheca De Bary. 



Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schum.) De Bary. 



Alnindatit on Polygonum minus Muds., Nuwara EUya, 

 September, 1908. 



Sorosporium Rud. 



Sorosporium paspali McAlpine. 



On PaJipalum scrobioulatum L.. Peradcniya, September, 

 1907. 



Spores subglobose ll-13ix, or irregularly ovaJ 9-JO x 

 i'6-\^\\i., blackish yoll()^\ -brown, smooth oi' very hnely wailed. 



