(466) 



3i. Gymnosporangium Yamadae Miyabe (Bot. Mag. Tokyo 



17 2 : 34, hyponym. 1903), sp. nov. 



Aecia hypophyllous, in groups 2-3 mm. across on thickened 



discolored spots, tubular at first, 0.1-0.3 mm. in diam. by 1-3 

 mm. high; peridium becoming lacerate or fimbriate 

 to base, spreading; peridial cells linear-rhomboid in 

 side view, 18-24X55-95M, outer wall thin, about in, 

 smooth, inner and side walls medium thin, 3-4/t, 

 moderately verruculose with small, mostly oval pap- 

 illae; aeciospores broadly ellipsoid or globoid, 17-21 

 X21-26M, wall chestnut-brown, 1.5-2.5M thick, finely 



Telia unknown. 



Fig. 27. G. For the aecia: Malus Mains (L.) Britt. {Pyrus 



Yamadae. Malus L.), M. spectabilis (Ait.) Borkh. (Pyrus 



spectabilis Ait.), M. Toringo Sieb. (Pyrus 



Toringo Koch.). 



For the telia: unknown. 



Type collected at Tokyo, Japan, on Pyrus spectabilis, June 23, 



1904, N. Nambu. 



Distribution: Known only from type locality. 



32. Gymnosporangium Ellisii (Berk.) Farlow, in 



Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 271. 1879 

 Podisoma Ellisii Berk. Grevillea 3: 56. 1874. 

 Hamaspora Ellisii K6rn. Hedwigia 16: 23. 1877. 

 Phragmidium Ellisii De Toni, in Sacc. Syll. Fung.7 : 



750. 1888. 

 Tremella Ellisii Arth. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 1900: 

 135. 1901. 



Aecia unknown. 



Telia caulicolous, from a perennial mycelium which 

 distorts the younger branches causing slight enlarge- 

 ments and usually dense fasciations, numerous, 

 thickly scattered, often over considerable areas, 

 cylindric, filiform, 3-6 mm. long, about 0.5-1 mm. 

 in diameter, orange-colored ; teliospores 2-5-celled, 

 linear-fusiform, 9-16X85-170^, not constricted at 

 the septa, wall pale yellow, thin about ijn; pores 2 in 

 each cell (1 in the uppermost), apical. 



