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102.— Phyllachora Pongamiae (B. & Br.) Fetch. 

 Rhytisma Pongamice B. & Br., Joiir. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 130. 



Cryptomyces Pongamice (B. & Br.) Sacc, Sylloge Fungorum, 

 VIII., p. 708. 



Stromata black, embedded in the leaf and visible on both 

 sides, up to 1 cm. diameter, irregularly circular, shining, 

 covered with minute conical ostiola on the under surface of 

 the leaf. Loculi 150-220 [x diameter. Paraphyses numerous, 

 linear, shorter than the asci. Asci cyhndric or clavate, 60-90 

 X 8-18 \x, eight-spored. Spores oval, hyaline, continuous, 

 12-16 X 5-8 tJL. 



The asci are very variable. Raciborski (Parasitische Algen 

 und Pilze Java's, pt. III. , p. 18) gives asci 80-94 x 18 [x, spores 

 14 X 8-9 [h. Fresh specimens collected at Peradeniya showed 

 cyhndric asci 60 X 8 ^. The co-type in Herb. Peradeniya 

 has clavate asci 70 X 10 ^, with spores obhquely uniseriate 

 below and biseriate above, and inflated eUiptic asci, 90 X 18, 

 spores all obhquely uniseriate, in the same stroma. 



On leaves of Pongamia glabra Vent., Peradeniya, &c. 



In Fungi Indise Orientalis,pt. III. (Ann. Myc, IX., p. 376), 

 H. and P. Sydow and E. J. Butler list this species, Avith a 

 figure, under the name Cryptomyces Pongamice. It appears to 

 me to be an indisputable Phyllachora. 



103.— Diatrype russodes B. & Br. 



Diatrype russodes B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 123 

 Stromata erumpent, pulvinate, circular or oval, up to 4 mm 

 diameter, crowded, black, somewhat soft, rough with project 

 ing cyhndric ostiola, up to 0*3 mm. high and 0*2 mm 

 diameter. Asci clavate with a long tapering pedicel, eight 

 spored, 44-60 X 8 ^ ; spores uniseriate below, biseriate above 

 Spores greenish hyaline, cylindric, shghtly curved, 8-10 X S i^ 

 On dead twigs, Peradeniya, Dec. , 1911 . On bark (Thwaites) 



104. — Herpotrichia cirrhostoma (B. & Br.) Fetch. 



Sphceria (Villosoe) cirrhostoma, B. & Br., Jour. Linn. Soc, 

 XIV., p. 126. 



Lasiosphceria cirrhostoma (B. & Br.) Sacc, Sylloge Fun- 

 gorum, II., p. 201. 



