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chain elongates and gives rise to chains of spores, easily breaking up into 

 single cells. Blastospores ovoid, more or less elongate, unicellular or septate 

 with a single septum, thick-walled, thickened at disjunctors, giving a some- 

 what eitriform appearance, 5 x 3-8 x 4fi (Fig. 137). 



Grows on usual media at room temperature, must be transferred in 15 days. 



Hormodendron Langeroni Fonseca, Area Leao & Nogueiro Penido, Sciencia 

 Medica 5: 563-580, 2 pis., 1927. 



Found in ulcero-nodular mycosis. On the lower part of the internal side 

 of the right leg, and oval ulceration, about 3 cm. long, with sharply defined 



Fig. 137. — Hormodendron Fontoynonti. (After Fraga 1930.) 



borders, in some places perpendicular to the skin surface, in other places the 

 skin being more or less detached. The bottom of the ulcer is irregular, of 

 dark red color, displaying a considerable purulent, malodorous secretion, the 

 tissues under the ulcer edematous and infiltrated. Three small subdermic 

 nodules noted, following a more or less straight line over the ulcer. These 

 nodules are very painful. AVassermann positive. Clinically close to cutaneous 

 lymphangitic type of sporotrichosis. 



Aerial mycelium of septate, undulating hyphae, 2-4/^ in diameter, some- 

 times anastomosing, sometimes with crystal deposits; conidiophores usually 

 more or less branched, the branches composed of cylindric or elongated ovoid 



