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subject of the present paper, is not a source of danger to the fibre crop. Another 
stem rot of the jute plant is caused by a fungus, which has been identified! 
in Japan as Macrophoma Corchori? Saw. This fungus occurs in India,? 
where its depredations are not confined to the jute crop, and will form matter 
for a later communication. 
1Kaneyoshi Sawada. ‘ Preliminary Report of a new Stem Rot Disease of Jute caused 
by Macrophoma Corchori Saw. sp. nov.” Bull. 107 Agric. Expt. Sta. Formosa, 1916. 
2 Mycologia, Vol. XI, No. 2, March, 1919, p. 82. 
3 Scientific Reports of the Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, 1918-19, p. 71. 
