Puccinia Rubtaceac. 165 



On leaves including leaf stalks of Vittadiuia australis A. Rich. 

 Victoria Dimboola, June, 1900 (Header). 



In Agr. Gaz. N.S.W. VI., p. 757 (1895), I described a new species under 

 the name of Aecidium vittadiniae upon a plant forwarded to me as Vittadinia 

 ttnxtralis, but which was afterwards found to be an Erechtites, so that the 

 present description replaces the previous one. 



(Plates XXXIX., Fig. 292 ; XLIIL, Figs. 308, 309.) 



RUBIACEAE. 



Coprosma. 

 94. Puccinia coprosmae Cooke. 



Cooke, Grev. XIX., p. 2 (1890). 

 Sydow, Mon. Ured. L, p. 209 (1902). 

 Sacc. Syll. IX., p. 300 (1891). 



P. coprosmatis Morrison, Viet. Nat. XL, p. 90 (1894). 



III. Telcutosori hypophyllous, sometimes epiphyllous, rusty-brown r 

 prominent, compact, round or elliptic, usually in groups, sometimes 

 forming mammilated tubercles, rarely solitary, densely crowded 

 and continent, sometimes surrounded by the ruptured epidermis 

 or naked and deforming the leaves. 



Teleutospores elongated oblong to clavate, pale yellowish to 

 brownish, the two cells about equal and more or less ovate, apex 

 bluntly pointed or rounded, thickened, (from 6-8 /j), rounded or 

 slightly tapering at base, smooth, constricted at septum, 

 35-51 x 16-22 jj, average 43 x 18/i; pedicel hyaline, persistent, 

 elongated, up to 110 p long and 8 ^ broad. 



X. Mesospores common, similarly coloured to teleutospores, ovoid to 

 ellipsoid, or somewhat fusoid, usually pointed and thickened at 

 apex, 32-41 x 19-22 p. 



On leaves of Coprosma billardieri Hook. 



Victoria Kew and Dandenong, Oct. and Feb., 1893. 

 Tasmania (Rod way 1 ). 



On Coprosma hirtella Labill. 



Victoria Murramurrangbong Ranges, Dec. 1903, Jan. 1905 



(Robinson). 



I am indebted to Dr. Morrison for some of the original material on 

 which he founded his new species P. coprosmatis, but it is identical with 

 the above species first determined by Dr. Cooke on Coprosma lucida from 

 New Zealand. 



Darhica jttum Cast., Avas very plentiful on the teleutosori on Coprosma 

 billardieri, and was described by Morrison as a sperrnogone with spermatia. 



(Plate X., Fig. 78.) 



Asperula. 



95. Puccinia oliganthae Me Alp. 



II. Uredosori hypophyllous, cinnamon-brown, round to ellipsoid, soon 

 naked, girt by the ruptured epidermis, confluent into elongated 

 patches. 



