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The Java specimens are said to be larger, 8-10 mm., and 

 the length of the ascus is less. The base of the stroma is 

 flattened and attached to the bark only in the centre. Penzig 

 and Saccardo figure a white base with a black ring surround- 

 ing a central white spot : in my specimens the central point 

 of attachment is whitish, but the remainder of the base is 

 orange or blackish. Except in these points, the specimens 

 agree with the description and figure of Fleischeria javanica. 

 There are no remains of scale insects beneath the stromata. 

 Apparently Fleischeria differs from Hypocrella only in the 

 larger, denser stroma. 



16.— Sph3eropsis undulata, B. & C. 



This was described by Berkeley and Curtis from specimens 

 collected in Cuba : " Stromate nigro suborbiculari undulato, 

 apicibus peritheciorum papilloso : sporuhs obovatis, magnis, 

 hyahnis, 30-33 /^t longis." Berkeley and Broome recorded a 

 species from Ceylon under the same name, but gave the spore 

 measurement as 12-5-15 x 7" 5-10 f^. Subsequently Beccari 

 collected specimens in Sarawak which were doubtfully named 

 Sphceropsis undulata, B. & C, by Cesati. The description of 

 the Sarawak specimens is " Perithecia csespitose aggregata 

 Cucurbitarima simulantia, nigra, vertice depresso : humectata 

 carnosa fiunt. Asci et paraphyses nulla. Sporidia ovalia, 

 exosporio crasso, fuscella, simplicia : guttula ampla centrali, 

 raro binis, 7 x 4." 



Saccardo refers the Cuban specimen to Dothiorella, since the 

 spores are hyahne, under the name D. undulata, and notes at 

 the same time that the Ceylon specimen with spores about 

 half the size seem different : he also places Beccari's species 

 in Haplosporella , under the name H. Cesatii. He does not 

 however re-name the Ceylon species, although its spores 

 apparently are intermediate between those of the specimens 

 from Sarawak and Cuba. When however Cesati's unit (2 ^t) 

 is allowed for, the spore measurements of the Ceylon and 

 Sarawak specimens agree. Thus the Ceylon species appears 

 to be the same as that from Sarawak, and will stand as Haplo- 

 sporella Cesatii, Sacc. The fact that Cesati's unit was 2 f^t 

 appears to have been generally overlooked. 



