MELANCONIACEAE 431 



form, for a long time covered by epidermis, which is 

 eventually ruptured, the conidia usually escaping in the 

 form of mucilaginous tendrils, bright-coloured or pallid ; 

 conidia slenderly fusiform, elongated, continuous, hyaline. 



Libertella ulcerata, Massee (sp. nov.). Pustules gre- 

 garious, numerous, minute, eventually rupturing the epi- 

 dermis, the conidia being extruded in the form of pale- 

 coloured, viscid tendrils; conidia fusiform, ends acute, 

 continuous, curved, hyaline, 55-60X4 /*. 



Melanconium, Link. Pustules or nuclei subcutaneous, 

 conoid or discoid, black ; conidia produced singly at the 

 tips of basidia, globose or oblong, continuous, fuliginous, 

 often extruded as viscid masses or tendrils. 



Melanconium pandani, Lev., Ann. Sci. Nat., Sot., 1845, 

 p. 66. Acervuli erumpent, large, black, conoid, often 

 aggregated in black, warty lines, 1-2 mm. diam. ; conidia 

 oozing out in black tendrils or irregular masses, pale olive, 

 elliptic, oblong, straight or slightly bent, often 2-guttulate, 

 size variable, 5-9 X 3-4 /*; conidiophores elongated, branched, 

 curved. 



Described from a portion of Leveille's specimen, now in 

 Herb., Kew. 



Coryneum, Rees. Fruit pustules discoid or pulvinate, 

 subcutaneous, erumpent, compact, black ; conidia oblong 

 or fusoid, 2-many-septate, fuliginous; basidia filiform. 

 Conidia never extruded as a viscid tendril. 



Coryneum beyerinckii, Oud., Hedw., 1883, p. 113. 

 Fruit clusters very minute, dotlike, black, gregarious; 

 conidia springing from a brownish, parenchymatous, 

 pulvinate stroma, crowded, oblong or oblong-obovate, pale 



