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posite from Brazil collected by Ule and distributed as no. 
3543 of Rabenhorst-Winter, Fungi Europaei, under the name 
of Afeliola tnermzs Kalchbr. & Cooke. The latter was 
described on leaves of Buddleya from South Africa. Our 
species agrees with it in having peculiar chitinized uncinate 
perithecial appendages but in ours they are much larger, the 
spores are larger and the characters of the mycelium and 
hyphopodia are different. 
Meliola Helleri sp. nov. 
Amphigenous, mostly fruiting below, forming thin poorly 
defined black patches 3-6 mm. in diameter, often more or 
less confluent and effused, mycelium of somewhat interwoven, 
pale fuscous threads, 7 » thick, cells 15-18 » long; capitate 
hyphopodia alternate or unilateral, regular, oblong, 16~18 x 
8 w, basal cell short, about 5 4, head cell cylindrical; mucro- 
nate hyphopodia infrequent, opposite, or scattered, subconic to 
subampulliform, often irregular, truncate, 18-20 “4; setae not 
abundant, 350-450 x 8 yw, opaque, straight, tapering upward, 
tip bifid for 4-6 or with two or more acute teeth; perithecia 
globose, 150-200 yz, smooth, of uniform subequal cells 8-10 
in diameter ; asci evanescent, not seen; ascospores 4-septate, 
dark fuscous, cylindrical, strongly constricted, obtuse, 35- 
40 X II~I3 pf. 
On leaves of some unknown woody plant perhaps belong- 
ing to the Myrtaceae, Porto Rico, Heller, no. 6251. 
This species seems to be nearly related to AZ. drcornis 
Wint., but differs in the characters of the hyphodia. From 
M. bidentata Cooke it can be distinguished by the more 
slender mycelial threads, smaller hyphopodia, smooth not ver- 
rucose perithecia and slightly smaller spores. 
Meliola Mangiferae sp. nov. 
Amphigenous, forming black, densely velvety, orbicular 
atches 6-10 in diameter or becoming widely confluent ; 
mycelial threads numerous, much interwoven, dark fascous, 
opaque, 10 thick, the cells 25-30 long; capitate hypho- 
odia irregularly clavate-oblong, alternate, 25 x 12-144, 
basal cell 6-7 # long, head cell irregularly cylindric, sub- 
flexuous; mucronate hyphopodia infrequent, subconical, 
