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Colonies flat or hemispheric, ivory white on neutral agar, yellowish on 

 maltose agar, dirty grayish red on potato, becoming flattened, convex, 1 cm. 

 in diameter. On gh^cerol or glucose agar, colony smooth or finely folded, 

 bright brown to whitish. On gelatin, growth along stab is slow but surface 

 growth is abundant. In beef and maltose broth, there is a brown floccose 

 sediment but no cloudiness. Glucose fermented. Litmus milk turns alkaline. 



Castellania Lesieuri (Beauverie) Dodge, n. comb. 



Cryptococcus Lesieuri Beauverie, Jour. Physiol. Path. Gen. 14: 994-996, 

 1912. 



Cryptococcus Lesieurii Castellani & Clialmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 2, 771, 

 1913. 



Isolated in a case of ulceromembranous stomatitis in a young woman with 

 typhoid. Not pathogenic for experimental animals. 



After 4 days on malt agar at 26° C, cells are ovoid, 2-3/*, becoming 8x3 

 or 12 X 2fx, although mostly 5 x 2ix. Both sprouting forms and hyphae present. 

 No spores formed on plaster blocks. 



On malt agar, growth cream white, surface finely folded, vermiculate 

 to the edge. On potato at 26° C, growth is less rapid and less abundant, dirty 

 white, the upper part appearing dry, pulverulent and chalky white. On car- 

 rot, after 3 days at the same temperature, development is abundant, white 

 with the surface viscid and brilliant, formed of small connivent mounds. 

 Growth on malt gelatin, at the laboratory temperature of 15°-18° C., is the 

 same as on the agar. In malt extract, after 9 hours a ring and islets appear, 

 a light sediment in 3 days with white ring well developed. Islets white and 

 dry, 0.5-1.5 mm. in diameter. In carrot juice, development is rapid. After 

 8-9 hours the surface is covered with small, white islets, smaller than in 

 malt, about 0.5 mm. in diameter. No ring forms although a fcAv of these islets 

 are drawn up onto the sides by capillarity. Sediment present. In Raulin's 

 liquid, development is slow, a sediment appearing in 4 days. Glucose fer- 

 mented, not fructose, sucrose, maltose, or levulose. Gelatin not liquefied. 



Castellania balcanica (Castellani & Chalmers) Dodge, n. comb. 



Monilia halcanica Castellani & Chalmers, Man. Trop. Med. ed. 3, 1090, 1919. 



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



Found in sputum. Hoffstadt & Lingenfelter (1929) describe in detail a 

 case of pulmonary infection due to this organism. They found it pathogenic 

 for rabbits. 



Cells 4 X 7/A. Hyphae composed of chains up to 6 cells. 



Hoffstadt & Lingenfelter give cultural characters of their strain which 

 had no action on fructose. Organism originally described as fermenting 

 glucose only, with a slight acid formation in fructose and arabinose (due, per- 

 haps, to impurities in the sugars). 



Castellania parabalcanica (Castellani & Chalmers) Dodge, n. comb. 



Monilia parahalcanica Castellani & Chalmers. Man. Trop. Med. ed. 3, 1090, 

 1919. 



