•60 FETCH : REVISIONS OF 



Broome's Nectria gyrosa, with black ostiola, consists of small 

 specimens of Endothia gyrosa, with the projecting ostiola for 

 for the most part broken off. 



15.— Fleischeria javanica, Penz. & Sacc. 



This species was described by Penzig and Saccardo in 

 " Icones Fungorum Javanicorum," p. 59, and is up to the 

 present the only member of the genus. It occurs in Ceylon 

 at Hakgala and Nuwara Eliya, where it is found on the moss- 

 covered trunks of living trees. The Ceylon specimens differ 

 in a few particulars, but are apparently the same species : 

 they enable us to add a description of the conidial stage 

 which was apparently not observed by the above-named 

 authors. Specimens in the conidial stage were sent to 

 Berkeley by Thwaites forty years ago (Thwaites No. 255), 

 and were said to be a stylosporous stage of a Nectria. 



The stromata are at first hemispherical, up to 5 mm. in 

 diameter and 2-3 mm. high, bright orange, rough with minute, 

 close-set, rounded elevations, in the centre of each of which is 

 a slightly paler ostiolum. The substance is hard and pale 

 yellow throughout. The pycnidia are small, pear-shaped, 

 and widely separated : they are lined with basidia about 15 f* 

 long and r5 /j in diameter, which bear single terminal conidia. 

 The conidia are yellowish, elliptic with sharply pointed ends, 

 9-14 X 3' 5 P-: they are extruded in an orange-coloured 

 globule when ripe. 



The conidial stage is thus the same as Aschersonia. 



The rounded elevations of the stroma grow out and become 

 more or less globose, so that the fungus appears at first sight 

 to be a crowded group of nectrias on a well developed stroma. 

 At the same time the colour changes to reddish brown. The 

 mouths of the perithecia are dark red and somewhat trans- 

 lucent, and project shghtly. Each of the globose swellings 

 bears several perithecia embedded in it. The asci are narrow, 

 fusoid, with a tapering stalk, up to 180 x T /j. The spores 

 are at first filiform, and break up into oblong spores with 

 rounded ends : my specimens are not quite mature and the 

 largest ascospore measm'es 10 -< 2*5 y". 



