40 ?^ ffl-^ii^- Wf^^^^^^ >^--mmm 



4^/^5 Rosa indica L. var. formosana Hay. [Z^^^t ^UM^^^t ^tifi 6 

 Z f^ i % Rosa indica L. (Rosa semperflorens Curt. Rosa Sieboldi Crep.) iC 



#*. -r 5 mn^^^'t ^ n /^ 5 mn ^ ^-r. Uiox^ it ±n ^ mm. <h %%& 



Kuehneola Rosae Sawada ^l^:g-1^ b , SElH>C-^C7)^n Lo 



Kuehneola Rosae Sawada. sp. nov. 



Teleutospore soii aniphigenous, scattered, first borne under the epidermis, 

 soon nacked, roundish, cushion-like, pulvinate, reddish oran<^e, O. i — i mm. in 

 diameter; larger on veins, stipules and young twigs as well as on fruits, until lO 

 mm. in length. Teleutospores one-celled, with reddish orange granular contents, 

 oblong or obovate oblong or oblicjuely ovate or short clavate cylindrical, smooth, 

 thin walled, 15 — 52 x 14 — 28/.!, 2 — 5 spores forming a chain 96 — 160// in length 

 and 18 — 28//. in width, germinate in situ ; pedicel wanting. Protobasidia cilin- 

 drical, orange-colored, 3-septate (rarely i — 2-septate), 44 — 84x8 — i3/^;sterig- 

 mata tapering to a sharp i)oint, lO — 24x4 — 5//; sporidia, roundish, orange- 

 colored, apiculate, 8 — 14 /v. in diameter. 



Hab. On the living leaves, stipules, young twigs, fruits, etc, of Rosa indica 



L. var. fonnosaua Hay. 



Taihoku, Formosa. Feb. 21, 1917. Y. I'^ijikuro.; April 3, 1917. Iv. 



Sawada; Nov. 5, 1917. K. Saw^ada. 

 Remark. This fungus is closely allied to Kuehneola japonica Diet., but is 

 distinguished from it by the number of the larger sized teleutospores in a chain 

 as mentioned above. 



