EREMASCACEAE IM PERFECT AE 257 



Acid formation and fermentation witli glucose, fructose, and sucrose. 

 Milk clotted and digested. Gelatin not liquefied. 



Castellania Muhira (Mattlet) Dodge, n. comb. 



Monilia Muhira Mattlet, Ann. Soc. Beige Med. Trop. 6: 23-24, 1926. 



Isolated from scrapings of a grayish coating of tongue which caused pain 

 ni swallowing and slight elevation of temperature each night. Patient a 

 soldier in Belgian Congo. Treatment with glycerol Kl.Ig brought about com- 

 plete cure. 



In scrapings, spherical or ovoid cells, 2-3/t, some sprouting. Growth for 

 8 days in potato decoction at 37° C, only spherical cells and elongate cells, 

 occasionally arranged end to end, with either spherical or elongate cells at 

 the articulations. Spherical cells 6-7/i, in diameter, elongate cells 12 x 2.5/^,. 

 Typical liyphae to be seen in depths of gelatin cultures. These are formed 

 of cells about 20 x 2-2.5ja, spherical or ovoid blastospores or other hyphae at 

 the septa. Free ends of the cells are rounded. Protoplasm of long cells is 

 reduced to a thin layer along the wall. No chlamydospores observed. Optimum 

 temperature 37° C. 



On Sabouraud agar at 37°, the culture is dull, white, rounded. Later the 

 center yellows with radial striations, margin lobed with outgrowths of large, 

 contorted hyphae, extending down into medium. On gelatin stab, culture 

 white, margin indented at surface. Horizontal hyphae grow out into depth 

 of medium, giving a growth of inverted cone shape. On potato decoction, 

 sediment of small white iflakes. Ferments glucose, fructose, sucrose, not mal- 

 tose, galactose, lactose, mannite, dextrin, or inulin. No acid or coagulation 

 with milk. Gelatin not liquefied. 



Perhaps this species should be referred to Blastodendrion, near B. 

 Kayongosi. 



Ca^ellania Guilliermondi (Castellani) Dodge, n. comb. 



Endomyces Guilliermondi Castellani, Brit. Med. Jour. 2: 1208-1212, 1912. 



Monilia Guilliermondi Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 826, 

 1913. 



Mycelohlastanon Guilliermondi Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 



Isolated from sputum in case of bronchomycosis. 



Thin pellicle on broth. Acid formation and fermentation with glucose, 

 fructose, sucrose, slight with raffinose. Galactose becomes acid, maltose, 

 slightly acid. Coagulated serum and gelatin not liquefied. Action on milk 

 uncertain, some reporting coagulation which Aichelburg denies. 



Castellania Chalmersi (Castellani) Dodge, n. comb. 



Endomyces paratropicalis D Castellani, Centralbl. Bakt. I, 58: 236-238, 

 1911. 



Monilia Chalmersi Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 826, 1913. 



Endomyces Chalmersi Castellani, Arch, de Parasitol. 16: 184-186, 1913. 



Mycelohlastanon Chalmersi Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol. 28: [4], 1928. 

 Candida Chalmersi Basgal, Contr. Estudo Blastomycoses Pulmonares 49, 

 1931. 



