PREFACE. 



The following account of the bud-rot of palms in South India 

 is written because the continuance of the work to which it relates 

 has passed from my hands to those of the recently appointed 

 Mycologist to the Madras Department of Agriculture, Mr. W. 

 McRae. 



I have pleasure in acknowledging much assistance from the 

 notes of field observations and experiments supplied by Messrs. 

 S. Sundararaman and D. Balakrishna Murti of the Madras Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and S. N. Mitra and R. Sen of the Mycological 

 Laboratory, Pusa. 



