141 
Macrophoma Palmarum, Berl. & Vogl. Syll. Addit. p. 311. 
DriPLopia EPiIcocos, Cooke, in Grevill. ibid. p. 102, pl. 86, f. 2. 
D. palmicola, Thiim. Sace. Syll. iii. 372. 
_Cooke’s specimens of the Sphaeropsis are evidently a young 
Diplodia, recognisable as such at the first view of the granular 
spores: although all the spores seen were eseptate, many of 
them had a brownish wall. (Fig. 2b.) The best developed 
pycnidia (even though the spores still remained quite colourless) 
were exactly like those of D. epicocos, and the spores of the 
latter (in Cooke’s own specimens) were often mixed in the same 
pycnidium with colourless ones like those of the “‘ Phoma.” 
D. palmicola, Thiim. (Fung. Austr. no. 59!), on epicarp of Cocos, 
does not differ in any respect except words. Cooke’s figure 
(pl. 86,-f. 2) is misleading; the Diplodia spores are rarely con- 
strieted, and have the septum broad and dark. ‘ 
939. Phoma Pandani, Sacc. 
Sphaeropsis Pandani, Lév. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1846, v. 293. 
Macrophoma Pandan, Berl. & Vogl. Syll. Addit. p. 310, 
and x. 197. 
? Dretopia PanpDanl, TJassi ; see Sace. Syll. xvi. 923. 
This is another instance of what has been noted so many 
times. The older observers of these fungi (it was the custom of 
their age) paid no attention to the changes which spores undergo 
during their development. On examining the authentic speci- 
mens sent by Léveillé to Berkeley, it is seen that the pycnidia 
contain numerous large hyaline spores, but mixed with them 
are a small number of brown spores, mostly uniseptate, with all 
conceivable intermediate stages. (Fig. 2c.) Evidently it is a 
Diplodia or a Botryodiplodia (the latter is partly, if not entirely, 
merely a state of the former); but it does not seem to agree 
entirely with Diplodia Pandani, Tassi (Sace. Syll. xvi. 923), 
“on dry fruits of Pandanus utilis, Madagascar.” Nevertheless it 
may be that species. 
Léveillé’s original account (/.c.) is very accurate, and need 
not be repeated here: the spores are elliptic-oblong or obovoid, 
at first quite colourless and very thin-walled, at length dark- 
brown and Il-septate, 23-25 x 14-15y. The pycnidia are, as 
Léveillé states, distinct but ‘‘ trés rapprochés,” each enclosed 
in the ruptured epidermis and surrounded by a thin layer of 
brown creeping branched fibres. Léveillé’s specimens have no 
locality affixed, but were apparently found on dried fruits of 
Pandanus, preserved in the herbarium of the Paris museum. 
946. Phoma elongata, Sacc. 
_ Pyenidia gregarious, globose-depressed, 150-250 diam., 
black, covered by the epidermis, then erumpent by the uppe 
