234 FETCH : 



Puccinia phyllocladiae Cooke. 



According to Sydow, Mon. Ured.. this was collected in 

 Cej^loii b^- Thwaites ; it was not recorded by Berkeley and 

 Broome, nor is there any Ceylon specimen collected by 

 Thwaites at Kew or Peradeniya. Recently collected on 

 cladodes and stems of Asparagus fakatus L., Hakgala, May. 

 1910. 



.-Ecidia on yellow swollen spots involving both sides of the 

 cladode and forming elUpsoid galls up to 5 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 broad, and 2 mm. thick. /Ecidia on either side, in clusters of 

 up to 20. .Ecidia tubular, 0-3 mm. high, 0-2 mm. diameter, 

 margin laciniate and shghtly recurved ; pseudoperidium white, 

 cBcidiospores in mass, orange-red. Pseudoperidial cells poly- 

 gonal, very variable in size, 36-50 X 20-34^, verrucpse, with 

 close-set. rather small warts and naiTow ridges ; wall 3^;. thick. 

 /Ecifliosporcsiirrcgularly oval or globose, contents orange; 

 ^ wall hyaline, up to 3^ thick, very minutely warted ; 30-40 x 

 26-30'^.. 



Uredo-sori minute, elongated, ferruginous, on the cladodes. 

 Uredospores oval, echinulate. pale brown, 35-48 X 21-25ijl. 



Teleutosori on stems and cladodes, scattered, circular, dark 

 brown. Tcleutospores globose, subglobosc. or ellipsoid, not 

 constricted, thick-walled, apex sometimes thickonod up to 

 12'^, yellow-brown, 35-45 x 30-36'^; pedicel hyaline, thin, 

 persistent, up to 10\). long. 



Puccinia mysorensis Sy<i. & Butl. 



On Kylli7H/a hrevifolia Rottb., Pattipola. October. 1J)(>H; 

 Hakgala, Sej)t<Mnbcr, IDOS. On Kylli)i(/(i monoce'phnJn R»^ttb., 

 Per.adeniya, October, 11)00, December, n)0(). 



Puccinia flaccida \'>. & iii . 



:^- Piorc/iidiiun /laccidujii (H. & V>v.] Lagh. 



( )n k'aves of Panicum sp., collected by Thwaites at Pera- 

 deniya, not found recently. 



In the type specimen at Peradeniya most of the teleutospores 

 have horizontal or obli(|ue septa anri measure 34-10 X 18-20jj.. 

 a few with vertical septa measure 28 x 30;/. IVdicel hyaline. 

 3[jL diameter. rn<lospores oval, cehinuiatc, 30 X H)-^.. 



