TORULEAE 685 



Hypliae 3-4/i, in diameter, septate, rarely branched. Spherical or ovoid 

 sporophore swells to form vesicle and is 4-6-spored. Spores spherical, Bis- 

 marck brown. No trace of conidia or ascocarps. 



Grows rapidly only on banana, very slowly on other media. Colonies 

 small yellowish white masses the size of a lentil or smaller, becoming zonate ; 

 yellowish, orange, blackish brown with a white margin. 



Madurella Bouffardi (Brumpt) Dodge, n. comb. 



Aspergillus Bouffardi Brumpt, Arch, de Parasitol. 10: 525-533, 1906 [Case 

 described and organism figured by Bouffard, Ann. Hyg. Med. Colon. 8: 579- 

 590, i 2?/., 1905]. 



Isolated at Djibouti, Somaliland, from tumors in the adipose tissues of 

 the foot which did not affect the epidermis, muscles, or bones. The anterior 

 third of the foot was globular, but there was no suppuration. The tumors 

 were fibrous, each containing 3-7 black grains embedded in the center, and 

 varying in size from that of a pea to that of a hen's egg. When these were 

 surgically removed, healing was rapid and complete. Source of infection 

 unaccounted for. Inoculations unsuccessful in monkey, dog, cat, and gazelle. 



Young mycelium silver white with a brown periphery forming a cortical 

 zone ; conidiophore erect, simple, continuous, white, 2/x, in diameter with 

 vesicle 4.5/a broad by 6^ tall. Conidia spherical, 1.33-2;u, in diameter, smooth, 

 white, in chains. Chlamydospores spherical, 5-10;u, broad. Intercalary chlamy- 

 dospores colorless, terminal ones brownish. Grains are similar to sclerotia 

 except that they are sporiferous within. 



Madurella Bovoi Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 1, 1910. 



Aspergillus fumigatus Bovo, Policlinico Sez. Chirurg. 13: 97, 119, 6 figs., 

 1906. 



Isolated from a typical Madura foot with a few granules appearing in 

 the groin. 



A grain from the foot was treated with 30% KOH for 12 hours, then kept 

 for 24 hours in distilled water, stored in 80% alcohol for a year, and then 

 treated for 24 hours with 25% KOH. On examination it showed hyphae 4-6/i 

 in diameter, septate. Bovo figured something which looks like a young mucor 

 sporangium, is ovoid and stains with methylene blue. He thought this was 

 a head of Aspergillus. 



This organism probably should be referred to M. mycetomi. 



INDIELLA 



Indiella Brumpt, Arch, de Parasitol. 10: 547, 1906. 



This genus includes IMucedineae with Avhite thallus, parasitic in a variety 

 of animal tissues (bone, muscle, connective), possessing vegetative hyphae 

 which vary in diameter from 1 to 5 and even 10/*. These hyphae are septate 

 and laterally branched, never secrete a pigment, form grains like the sclerotia 

 which characterize the different species of the genus. In these grains there 

 are present a fairly large number of chlamydospores, usually terminal. 



