New Species of Tropical Fungi. 



By J. B. ELLIS and B. M EVERHART. 



1. CONIOSPORIUM SUBSERIATUM E. d' E. 



Acervuli erumpent. subhysteriiform. 1-2 mm. loner, sub- 

 confluent-seriate, black. Conidia globose-elliptical, brown, 

 about 5x3-3^2 "• abundant. 



C. L. Smith. On bark. Castillo. Nicaragua, February. 1S93. 



2. Uredo cuticulosa E. & E. 



Sori gregarious, thin, pale flesh-color, )A— 2 mm. diam.. sur- 

 rounded by the thin white epidermis, soon confluent, forming 

 a thin, light, flesh-colored stratum elliptical in outline and x _-i 

 cm. in the longer diam. Spores globose. 15-20 u, or obovate, 

 18-23x15-20 u, with a thick, hyaline epispore, coarsely tuber- 

 culose above, becoming smooth below. 



A very well marked and curious species. 



An uredo badly infecting the pods of a species of Bignonia 

 at Ometepec. Nicaragua. I am not aware that this species of 

 Bignonia has any economic value. C. L. S. 



Collected in January, 1S93. 



3. Thelephora sublilacina E. &■ E. 



Orbicular, 2-4 mm. diam.. dirty lilac-color. Hymenium 

 thin, fragmentary around the margin, supported on numerous 

 erect, dark colored, pedicel-like flbers as in T. -pedicellata 

 Schw. These fibers arise from a round, dark colored, mem- 

 branaceous, scale-like subiculum. 2—3 mm. diam.. adnate to 

 the bark, or with the margin partially free. Each of these 

 erect fibers soon develops at its summit a small, light colored 



67 



