5. The Genus Cerebeiia in India. 
By L. S. Susramaniam, Assistant to the Imperial aa 
logist, Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa 
[ With Plate I}. 
Cerebella is one of the little known genera of the family 
Hyphomycetae-Tuberculariae. It is commonly found associ- 
Gramineae. In Bombay and Madras one species is common 
on cultivated Jowar (Sorghum vulgare) producing black swell- 
ings on the grains Only three species have been so far re- 
corded in the East, viz., C. inquinans (B. et Br.) Petch, C. 
ractar ono Petch and C. Ischaemi Pete 
tly a species of Cerebella on ‘Sorghum vulgare was 
selena ‘for identification from the Philippine Islands. In 
connection with this, the material in the Pusa Herbarium was 
critically examined by the writer and it was Pen that the 
Indian material contained many new spec The present 
paper gives the determination of all the ipuntee of Cerebella 
known present in India 
anks are due to Mr. J. H. Walton, M.A., M.Se., Offg 
Imperial A gioaleaeal Scharrer for the micro- “photographs. 
Cerebella burmanensis, 0. sp. 
Investing the Mechoas stroma naked, flattened, gyroso- 
plicate, scattered, 14-3 mm.. long, black, compact or powdery. 
Glomerules, globose or subglobose, blackish brown, composed 
of 2 to 10 cells, 15-29°7). in diameter and not breaking into 
component cells. Individual cells angular or subglobose, 
7-lln in diameter, epispore rough and warty. Pedicels 
ee A yellow 
varies of Panicum setigerum. 
Mandalay, Burma, 17-1-19. Coll. F. J. F. Shaw. 
Cerebella Andropogonis-contorti, n. sp. 
Investing pr ovaries, stroma naked, elongated, gyroso 
plicate 2 to 5 mm. long, se cattered or effused, black, biten 
covering the whole DP optkalot: Glomerules, compact, subglobose 
or ovoid, deep blackish brown, composed of 2 to 7 cells, 13-33 
in diameter. Individual cells, subglobose or polyhedral, 9-13u 
in diameter, sepispore eee Pedicels hyaline or pe y 
tinged vellow oe 
