MYCETOZOA OF CEYLON. 857 



ObDEE II. — LlCEACE^. 



No representatives yet found in Ceylon. 



Order III. — Tubulinace^. 



Tubulina fragiformis, Pers. 



Collected once. Cluster of sporangia 3 cm. long, 1"5 cm. 

 broad, pulvinate. Spores 5 to 6 /u diameter, a few larger and 

 8 /* diameter. 



Urumuwela. 



Tubulina stipitata, Rost. 



'' Licea fragiformis, Nees," in B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 

 No. 780. 



Berkeley and Broome's specimens (Tliwaites' 132) have 

 stalks 1 • 5 to 2 mm. high, 1 • 5 to 2 • 5 mm. broad ; the clusters of 

 sporangia are from 1 • 5 to 2 • 5 mm. high, but as they have been 

 pressed their original diameter is not ascertainable ; the spores 

 are 4 to 5 f* diameter ; the sporangium wall is papillose. In a 

 recent gathering the sporangia occur singly, or clustered in 

 groups of three to twelve, or in larger clusters up to 1 cm. 

 diameter ; they are rufous -brown, on a dark brown, stalk-hke 

 hypothaUus, usually free in the upper half in the smaller 

 clusters and resembhng a cluster of Hemitrichia rubiformis, 

 turbinate, shining ; wall membranous, iridescent when mag- 

 nified. Individual sporangia are 2 to 3 mm. high, circular, 

 not angled, in section ; the outer sporangia of a cluster are 

 often reflexed as in Alwisia bomharda. In some clusters the 

 *' stalk " is 3 mm. high, in others it is almost absent. Spores 

 4 to 5 /* diameter, some 7m diameter, reticulated with narrow 

 lines, pale rufous-brown. 



Talawakelle. 



Alwisia bombarda, B. & Br. 



Prototrichia bombarda, Massee, Monograph, p. 128. 



Berkeley and Broome's type specimen in Herb. Peradeniya 

 consists of clusters of two to six sporangia 1 • 25 to 1*5 mm. 

 high, 0*5 to 0"6 mm. diameter, rufous-brown, cyUndrical- 

 ellipsoid, onclustered, longitudinally furrowed stalks, 2" 5 mm. 



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