WELWITSCH AND MR. F. CURREY'S FUNGI ANGOLENSRS. 20.*} 



immensus esset labor, et omne eorum studium, liaud mere phi -iolo-icmn mi 



visum est 



in. 



dium 



and Tulasne (Ann. d. Sc. Nat. ser. iv. vol. ii. p. 17 1) spoaka of 



genus vulgatissimuni plantis permultis et diversissimis infestum, 



formis numerosissimis at vix dissimilibus, plerisque enim aon nisi Bede sen matricc sibi 

 propria distinguendis." The recent observations of Do Bary tend to show thai . Ecidium 



is not an autonomous genus, but only a stage of development of other Uredineous enero. 



The following are the descriptions of the sFcidia collected by Dr. Welwitsch : 



No. 105. Peridiis stipatis, minime profundi s, petiolum tegentibus, ei Bubinde in foil 

 transeuntibus, margine subcrenulato, laciniis brevissimis ; sporis vivis aurunlincis, si. - 



citate pallidis, subglobosis vel ovato-oblongis, forma et crassitudine variis, OOOOir 00012 

 longis. 



Hab. Ad folia Cissi spec, prope Caghuy, Pungo Andongo, Novcmb. 1866. 



No. 128. Hardly differs from No. 105, except in the more scattered peridia and mo* 

 irregularly shaped spores. 



Hab. Ad folia fruticuli e familia Ebenacearum in rupestribus de Morro de Monino, distr. Eiuilla, rarim 

 obvium, April 1860. 



No. 128 a. JBeridiis albis, cylindricis, elongatis, marginis laciniis irrcgularilms; sports 

 ut in No. 128. 



Hab. Ad folia spec. Euphorbia, in pascuis dumetosis aliquanto petrous, subsiccis, prope Lopollo, I! "ilia, 



Mart. I860. 



No. 127. Feridiis sparsis, campanulatis, pallidis; marginis laciniis brevibus et orenn- 

 latis ; sports ut in 105. 



Hab. Rarius ad folia suflruticis Rubiacearum in dumetis prope lacum magnum dc Ivantala, distr. Iliulla, 



Feb. 1860. 



No. 8 is also a species of Ecidium, but it is not describable from dried specimens. 



Uromyces Alliorum, DC. 



Hab. Ad folia Liliacea asphodeloidea, in pratis humidis prope Mut Lueala, Pungo Andor Mart,, 



1857. No. 19. 

 Ad folia et scapos Albuca j unci folia, Pungo Andongo, Maio 1857. No. 22. 



No. 130 is an effused Uredo, covering the underside of the leaves of a Rul.iac m 

 plant. The spores are subglobose or elliptical, echinulate, 0*0011 to 0*001.3 long. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate 17. 



F igs- 1-4. Meliola fi 



magn 



setae, id.; fig. 3, spores, X highly; fig. 4, frs 

 Figs. 5 & 6. Xylaria arenicola, Welw. & Curr., x slighth 

 Pig. 7. Laternea anyolensis, Welw. & Curr., natural size. 



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