40 ''-^ Hi-jf^ JÄ- m ?s = tS^ äi 7, ,v - Sf (^ ® 



OiiJUtiZ Rosa indica L. var. forninsana Hay. l,Z.^'±-t ?>^'M'^^MM: ^tlfi i 

 Z t'^ { % Rosa indica L. (Rosa semperflorens Curt. Rosa Sieboldi Crep.) K 



#* T 5 mM ^^M^ f> n /^ S Et< 5: ^-r. !^ o -c ^ li :^n Ir frS. <h US» 



Kuehneola Rosae Sawada t-^^-t b . ^ti.^^%^<^i!üLo 



Kuehneola Rosae Sawada. sp. nuv. 



Tfleutospoi'o sori aiiiphigcnoiis, scattered, first borne under the epidermis, 

 soon nackcd, roundish, cushion-like, pulvinate, reddish oran<^e, o. i — I mm. in 

 diameter; huger on veins, stipules and young twigs as well as on fruits, until lO 

 mm. in length. Teleutospores one-celled, with reddish orange granular contents, 

 oblong or obovate oblong or obliquely ovate or short clavate cylindrical, smooth, 

 thin walled, 15 — 52 x 14 — 28 /-t, 2 — 5 spores forming a chain 96 — 1601t in length 

 and 1 8^28 /i in width, germinate in situ; pedicel wanting. Protobasidia cilin- 

 drical, orange-colored, 3-septate (rarely i — 2-septate), 44 — 84x8 — 13/-^; sterig- 

 mata tapering to a sharp point, 10 — 24x4 — S !" > sporidia, roundish, orange- 

 colored, apiculate, 8 — 14« in diameter. 



Hab. On the living leaves, stipules, young twigs, fruits, etc. of Rosa indica 



L. \ar. foniiosaua Hay. 



Tailioku, Formosa. Feb. 21, I917. Y. I'ujikuro.; A]>ril 3, 1917. K. 



Sawada; Nov. 5, 1917. K. Sawada. 

 Remark. This fungus is closely allied to Kuehneola japonica Diet., but is 

 distinguished from it by the nunibcr of the larger sized teleutospores in a chain 

 as mentioned above. 



