328 FETCH : 



plasiiiodiocaips. In one gathering the sporangia are purple, 

 with dense wart-Hke yellow patclies, bronze towards the base ; 

 some appear whitisli, and others quite yellow through the 

 number of lime deposits ; lime knots yellow, irregular, with 

 few hyaline connecting threads ; spores 14 /u diameter, some 

 elliptic or subglobose, 12 X 14 a', coarsely warted all over, 

 free or in clusters of 4 to 8 : part of this gathering lias scanty 

 lime deposits, and almost black sporangia. In another 

 gathering, from the same place, the sporangia are pale yellow, 

 in some cases darker towards the base ; lime knots as above ; 

 spores 13 to 14 /^ diameter, in clusters of 4 to 6, spinulose, but 

 equally spinulose all over. A third gathering has orange- 

 yeUow lime warts, and a yellow wall between them ; spores 

 13 fJ^ diameter, clustered or free. 

 Peradeniya. 



[Badhamia varia, Mass. 



This species is recorded for Ceylon by Massee in Mon., 

 p. 319. According to Lister, Badhamia varia, Mass., includes 

 Badhamia idricularis, Berk., B. hyalina, Berk., and B. magna, 

 Berk. : none of these occurs" in the Ceylon collections, and 

 there is no missing number which could be assigned to any of 

 them. The scarcity of Badhamia is a marked feature of the 

 Ceylon mycetozoa.] 



[Physarum leucopus, Link. 



Recorded for Ceylon by Berkeley and Broome, No. 752, 

 and by Massee, ]VIon.,p. 287, but all the herbarium specimens 

 under this number are Physarum compressum, A. & S.] 



Physarum pulcherrimum. Berk, and Rav. 



In a single gathering of this species, the sporangia are 0*4 

 mm. diameter, on stalks 1-5 mm. high : the stalk is purple, 

 subulate, and contains lime ; the sporangium wall is pale 

 pui"ple with mnate puipie or hyaline lime globules, scattered 

 or crowded ; lime knots small, 20—40 /j^ in longest diameter, 

 reddish purple, connected by a hyaUne network of small 

 mesh, expanded at the axils : spores 8 /^ diameter ; in some 

 parts of the specimen there is a purple hypothallus running 

 in narrow bands over the bark. 



Rare. On a rotting log in jungle, Hunugalla, Kegalla. 



