Pyronomycetea?, Pcrisporiacoa^ Meliola 421 



ceis, utrinqu^^ latfi rotundads, e latere visis parutn curvatis, 4- 

 septatis, fuscis, 36-44^-10-17,5. 



Uab. in foliis vivis Cucurbitacearum in insula S. Thome 

 Afr. occ, 

 3.S. Mellola acicuSosa Winter in Hedwigia 1886, p. 98 et F. S. Thom. ^^^^ 

 t. I, f. 2. ~- Mycelio epiphyllo, rarissime etiam hypophyllo, pie- 

 rumque ionge lateque effuso, folium totum laxe obducente v. pla- 

 gas limitatas, sparsas, minutas, rotundatas v. irregulares, 1-2 mm. 

 latas, atras elTormante; hyphis repentibus, parce remoteque ramo- 

 sis, torulosis ffexuosisque, fuscis, hyphopodia alternantia, subpi- 

 riformia vel irregularia, s;«pe truncata, integra seu parum lobata, 

 stipitata, saepe curvata, fusca gerentibus; setis erectis in mycelio 

 nullis, e basi peritheciorum autem 3-6 ortis, valde curvatis, sim- 

 plicibus, acutis, fusco-atris, 10,5-12 /ia. crassis; peritheciis sparsis 

 V. parce aggregatis, globosis, demum concavis, rugosis, atris, 150- 

 160 [x. diam.; ascis ellipticis vel ellipsoideo-oblongis, breviter sti- 

 pitatis, 2-3-sporis, 43-46:^19-32; sporidiis cylindraceis, utriuque 

 haud vel perparum attenuatis et late rotundatis, ina^quilateralibus 

 vel curvulis, 4-septatis, ad septa parum constrictis, fuscis, 30-37 

 ::; 10,5-14. 



llah. iu foliis vivis C ucu r bi tacea r u m aliarumque planta- 

 rum in iusula S, Thome Afr. occ. 



34. Meiiola ganglifera Kalchbr. Teste Winter (Confr. Rev. Myc. 1885), 

 sporidia sunt cyiindracea, utrinque rotundata, 3-septata, ad septa 

 parum constricta, opace atro-fusca, 47-51=; 14. 



35. Metiola Obesa Speg. Fung. Guar. Pug. 1, n. 179. — Epiphylla; 17(13 

 mycelio subcrustaceo, subfragili foliorum epidermide arcte adhfje- 

 rente, teriui, plagulas orbiculares, magnitudine varias, 1-5 mm. 

 diam., atras, opacas efficiente, ex hyphis sterilibus, repentibus, den- 



se intertexto-ramosis, muco conjunctis, hyphopodiis ovoideo-capi- 

 tulatis, 20 ci 8-10, basi 1-2-septatis, suboppositis, ornatis efformato, 

 hyphis conidiferis destituto; peritheciis globosis vel globoso-de- 

 pressis, 140-200 y., dlam., alris, glabris, grauulosis, membrana- 

 ceo-coriaceis, contextu subindistincto, crasse parenchymatico-cellu- 

 loso, subopaco, atro-fuligineo: ascis bisporis, cito diffluentibus ; 

 sporidiis ellipticis, utrinque rotundatis, 30-32 ^ 18-20, 4-septatis, 

 ad septa constrictulis, loculis granuloso-guttulatis, primo hyalinis, 

 dein opace fuligineis, 



' Hab. ad folia viva Rutacea) speciei cujusdam in silvis sub- 

 virgineis prope Piragii Bras. 



