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mounted by a white subconical head of conidia; conidiophores 
short, moniliform; conidia detached in clusters of two to five, 
united at the base by a small lozenge-shaped cell; individual 
conidia hyaline, cylindric, multiseptate, usually with a long 
aseptate acuminate tip, sometimes equal, obtuse and rounded 
at the apex, 50-256 x 7-Q up. 
Distribution. Ceylon; Java; Formosa; Zululand; Florida; 
Dominica (W.L.). 
Podonectria Aurantu (v. Hohnel) Petch; Puttemansia Aurantit 
v. Hohnel, Fragmente zur Mykologie, x1 (1911), p. 28; Ophio- 
nectria tetraspora Miyabe and Sawada, Jour. Coll. Agric., Tohuku 
Imp. Univ., Sapporo, v, pt. 3 (March 1913), p. 85. 
Conidial stage—Tetracrium Aurantu P. Henn., Hedwigia, 
XLI (1902), p. 116. 
Perithecia on a byssoid stroma, globose, 0-5 mm. diameter, 
white or brownish white, floccose, densely clothed with thick- 
walled, irregular, septate, hyaline hyphae which are sometimes 
united into fascicles; ostiolum minute on a naked disc; wall 
thick, parenchymatous; asci clavate, thick-walled, shortly pedi- 
cellate, pedate, eight-spored, spores biseriate, 150-230 x 20 p; 
paraphyses numerous, filiform, branched; ascospores fusoid or 
clavate, obtuse, hyaline to yellowish, multiseptate, 66-86 x 
—I0 p. 
; Sporodochia with a globose or obovoid brown base, about 
o-5 mm. high, 0-4 mm. diameter, with a flattened disc-like white 
head of conidia (in the specimens examined); conidiophores 
short moniliform; conidia detached in clusters of two to five, 
united at the base by a small lozenge-shaped cell; individual 
conidia cylindric, hyaline, multiseptate, with long, acute, asep- 
tate tips, or equal and rounded at the apex, 60-190 x 7-9 p. 
Distribution. Brazil; Formosa. 
Podonectria echinata Petch n.sp. 
Conidial stage—Tetracrium echinatum Petch n.sp. 
Perithecia on a byssoid stroma, globose, about 0-15 mm. dia- 
meter, pale yellow, clothed with white, triangular or conical, 
projecting fascicles of hyphae up to 200p long and 20 dia- 
meter; ostiolum not evident; wall rather thin, hyaline by trans- 
mitted light; asci clavate, thick-walled, shortly pedicellate, 
pedate, eight-spored, spores biseriate, 116-190 « 20-24 w; para- 
physes numerous, filiform, branched; ascospores clavate, some- 
times acute at the apex, usually strongly attenuated below, 
multiseptate, hyaline, 64-82 x 7-9 p. 
Sporodochia with a short columnar base, up to 0:3 mm. dia- 
meter, 0-2 mm. high, constricted above, brownish yellow, be- 
coming brown, generally with a flat discoid head of conidia, 
up to 0-4 mm. diameter; conidiophores short moniliform ; conidia 
