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FETCH 



In inflorescences of Andropogon aciculatus, Retz. Pera- 

 deniya. * 



Ustilago anthisterice, Fetch, n. sp. — In ovaries ; spores, 

 globose, spinulose, blackish olivaceous, 6-7 i" diameter. In 

 ovaries of Anthisteria tremula, Nees. Peradeniya. 



Pyrenomycetes. 



Physalospora neglecta, Petch, n. sp. — Perithecia about -3 mm. 

 diameter, gregarious, embedded in the cortex and raising and 

 cracking the epidermis, shghtly flattened, with a small abrupt 

 papilla, -08 mm. diameter and 08- -12 mm. high, pro- 

 truding through the epidermis, black, smooth. Asci 140-160 

 X S5 1^, clavate, appearing thick- walled at first, eight-spored, 

 spores biseriate ; paraphyses numerous, septate, shorter than 

 the asci ; spores hyaUne, thick- walled, inequilateral, cymbi- 

 form, 32-40 X 12-16 z^- 



On living branches in Thea, sp., causing at first slightly 

 sunken areas, from which the cortex afterwards splits off. 

 These wounds are then surrounded by a callus and form large 

 open " cankers." Kadugannawa, Ceylon. 



Metasphceria cocoes, Petch, n. sp. — On the mid-rib of decay- 

 ing fronds of Cocos mud f era, L. Ceylon. 



Perithecia 3 mm. diameter, spherical, gregarious, mem- 

 branous, black, produced beneath the epidermis and raising it 

 in irregular grayish confluent blisters, which usually form a 

 raised network ; ostiola penetrating the epidermis, minute, 

 scarcely visible. Ascus 260 x 15 fi, attenuated towards 

 either end, apex rounded, shortly stalked, eight-spored, spores 

 obliquely uniseriate ; paraphyses absent. Spores fusiform, 

 curved, ends obtuse, hyaline, multiseptate, 85-100 x 5 ^• 



Myxomycetes. 



Physarum crateriforme, Petch. n. sp. — Sporangia stalked, 

 with occasional plasmodiocarps ; head crateriform, "5- '75 x 

 •3-"4 mm., or spherical, -5 mm. diameter, sometimes 

 flattened as in Didymium davits, white wdth dense scattered 

 lime deposits, or gray with scanty lime deposits on a thin 

 iridescent wall, or iridescent when the lime deposits are absent. 



