NEW CEYLON FUNGI. 307 



Leaf spots rounded, black, centre brown, then gray, with a 

 yellowish or pale green border, 3 mm. diameter, conidio- 

 phores amphigenous. Spots on the pod, up to 5 mm, diameter, 

 or confluent, black with a brown margin, sunk. 



Conidiophores olivaceous, arising from a minute stroma, 

 septate, at first smooth, up to 90 X 5 ^> bearing a single spore 

 at one comer of the apex, then up to 200 /^ long, nodular with 

 old spore attachments. Spores hyaline, 80-120 /^ long, 

 curved, tapering from 4^ to 2/^, multiseptate, with septa 

 about 8 yti apart. 



Apparently differs from Cercospora cUtorice, Atk., in the 

 longer curved spores and the longer conidiophores. 



Cerebella antliisterice, Fetch, n. sp. — ^Stroma about 6 mm. 

 long, 3 mm. broad, somewhat flattened, the surface consisting 

 of brain-like, generally transverse, convolutions, dark olive, 

 then black. Spores united, 3 to 7 together, into more or less 

 spherical balls, constricted at the septa, 14-20 ^ diameter, 

 with a short thick hyahne pedicel. Separate spores tetrahe- 

 dral with a rounded base, 8-12 /^ across the widest part, 

 olivaceous, smooth. 



In inflorescences of Anihisteria imberbis, Retz. Peradeniya. 



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