438 FETCH : 



fuliginous, closely- waited, septate hyplise, of \miform diameter 

 (3-4 /i). From these creeping hyphse arise thinner (2-3 // 

 diameter) yellow, minutely roughened hyphse. These latt«r 

 are simple or branched, somewhat flexuose, septate ; they 

 bear the conidia laterally, either alternately or all on one side, 

 on very short pedicels, but their upper ends are barren. These 

 barren extremities are loosely intertwined and form a loose 

 cover which completely hides the black mass of conidia. To 

 the naked eye this cover appears to be a continuous yellow 

 wall, but under a low magnification it is seen to consist of 

 sUghtly intertwined free hyphse : it resembles exactly the 

 mass of elaters of a Trichia. The spores are eUiptical or 

 oblong-elliptical in general outline, coarsely wart«d, 3 to 5 

 septate, ends rounded, fuhginous, black in mass ; they are 

 rather deeply constricted at the septa, with the loculi regularly 

 inflated between. In the four- and five-septate spores, the 

 terminal locuU are small, being only one-half or one- quarter 

 the width of the middle loculi, and about 4 n long. The 

 majority of the spores are four- or five-septate and measure 

 34-47 X 20-25 h ; but some, in the same patch, are three- 

 septate and measure 22 x 18 /u. Berkeley and Broome's 

 figure of the spore is incorrect in representing it with pointed 

 ends and not constricted at the septa. 



In old specimens, the upper half, consisting of most of the 

 yellow hyphse and the spores, peels away in a continuous 

 sheet, and leaves an olive-yellow patch. 



This species is undoubtedly identical with Neomichelia 

 melaxantha Penz. & Sacc. described and figured from speci- 

 mens obtained in Java. The spores of the Javan specimen 

 are said to be three- rarely five-septate, slightly constricted, 

 30-36 X 18-22 1^. The figure of tlie entire fungus magnified 

 shows the yellow wall too solid. It may be noted that Berkeley 

 and Broome's specimens were (at least in part) on decaying 

 leaf sheaths of Oncosperma ; recent examples from Peradeniya 

 are also on the same substratum ; and it is evident from 

 Penzig and Saccardo's figure that the Javan specimens are on 

 Oncosperma also. 



Piihomyces is included by Saccardo among the Tvhercu- 

 lariacecB. Penzig and Saccardo place Neomichelia in the 



