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SPHAEROPSIDIACEAE, 
Phoma welwitschiae, Massee. 
Perithecia erumpenti-superficialia, dense aggregata, hemispherica, 
atra, contextu dense parenchymatico fuligineo, ostiolo minuto 
pertuso, 150-180 » diametro. Conidia elliptica, utrinque obtusiuscule 
rotundata, grosse 2-guttulata, hyalina, 5 x 3 y, sterigmatibus 
simplicibus fulta, 8-10 x 1°5 pu. 
TropicaAL Arrica. Damaraland: near Welwitsch; on the 
dead tips of leaves of Welwitschia mirabilis, Hook. £., W. C. 
Wors 
The perithecium is exceptionally thick and dense, and the 
ostiolum or pore is very minute. The conidia are involved in mucus 
which sets hard when dry, but dissolves and swells very much when 
moistened and is extruded through the ostiolum carrying the conidia 
along with it. In every respect the fungus is as xerophytic as 
its host. 
SS, 
XXXVI.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. C. K. Bancrort, B.A., formerly Major Scholar of Trinity 
College, Cambridge, has been appointed by the Secretary of State for 
the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistant Mycologist 
in the Federated Malay States. 
Mr. ALBERT RicHarp GOULD, a member of the gardening 
staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, 
a Curator in the Agricultural Department of the Gold Coast in 
succession to Mr. J. Anderson (K.B. 1905), resigned. 
Mr. Wit1.1aM Lesiizr Woop, lately a member of the gardening 
staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of 
Kew, Superintendent of Government Plantations in the Federated 
Malay States in succession to Mr. F, R. Long (A.B. 1908, 195), 
resigned, 
Mr. L. Lewron-Brain. We learn ie es eal 
formerly Mycologist and Lecturer in Agriculture to the tm 
Bpartendik ef Kenia for the West Indies (K.B. 1903, 30), 
and afterwards Assistant Director in the Division of Physiology 
and Pathology in the experiment station of the Hawaiian Sugar 
Planters’ Association, has been appointed Director of Agriculture 
in the Federated Malay States in succession to Mr. W. J. 
Gallagher (K.B. 1909, 342), resigned. 
