159 



Sudan. A pure culture taken from tlie soil, near Khartoum, 

 R. E. Massey 6- 



Forming a thin, effused, pale fawn-coloured stratum on the 



M 



g 



SuDAiNr. Obtained as a pure culture from soil near Khartoum, 

 It, E, Massey 1. 



A well-marked species, characterised by the cylindrical, 



Ha 



Holl 



Botryfis necans, Massee. 



Hyphae steriles rej^entes, larvas demum omnino obducentes, 

 fertiles vage ramosae, sparse septatae, subliyaline. Conidia in 

 ramulorum vel denticulorum apicibus acrogena, solitaria, globosa, 

 hyalina, 4 /x diametro, numerosissima. 



SiNGAroRE. On larvae of Brachartona cato^tantJia. Botanic 



Gardens, /. //- BurhilL 



In a note Mr. Burkill states, " A fungus is doing for us yeoman 

 service' in checking an outbreak of the moth Brachartona 

 catod'antha.^' An account of the moth is given in Bulletin No. 4 

 of the Federated Malay States Department of Agriculture. 



Cercospora musae, Massee. 



Maculae orbiculares vel lineares, determinatae, amphigenae, 

 sordide fusco cinerascentes^ 3-6 mm. diametro; pulvinuli hypo- 

 phylli, totam maculam vestientes, olivacei. Hyphae breviusculae, 

 eontorto-nodulofae, interdum furcatae, olivaceae, septatae. Sporae 

 praelongae, vermiculariae, leniter curvulae vel flexuosae, non vel 

 parci septulatae, 60-75 x 7-8 fx. 



Polynesia. Eiji Islands: Yiti Levu; Sigatoka. On living 



banana leaves, C. H, Knowles. 



This species is considered to be the cause of a serious disease in 

 the banana plantations in the Sigatoka district of the island of 

 Viti Levu, Fiji. Leaves that become infected fall quite early in 

 the season. The lowest leaf as a rule is attacked first, the leaves 

 beinff infected in ascending succession. 



XXVL-THE SEX OF DATE PALM SEEDLINGS. 



Attention has recently been drawn to a belief held by the Arabs 

 that it is possible by artificial means to change the sex of seedling 

 Date Palms and to convert male into female trees. 



Reference to this belief will be found in Popenoe's recently- 

 published book on the Date Palm,* and a note was also printed in 

 the Gardeners' Chroniclet early in the year in connection with an 

 article which appeared in the Tropical Agriculturist J of Ceylon 

 on the subject. 



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t Gard. Chron. Dec. 1913, Iv. p. 57. 

 + Trop. Agric. Dec. 1913, xli. p, 482 



Worlds. Paul B. Popenoe, p. 123. 



