JOURNAL 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. III.— 1891. 



IX. — Additional Uredineae from the Neighhourhood of Simla. 

 By A. Barclay, M. B., Bengal Medical Service. 



[Received 12th June, 1891 ; Read 1st July, 1891.] 



(With Plates IV and V.) 



Since the completion of my Descriptive List of the Simla Uredineae, 

 published in former volumes of the Journal of this Society I have found, 

 or have been supplied with, 82 other species, which are described in 

 the following pages. Of these 32 species, 4i are Ifromyces (2 new), 11 

 Pticcinia (5 new), 3 Phragmidia (all new), 1 Xenodochus (new), 2 

 Melampsora (1 new), 5 isolated Aecidial Forms (3 probably new), 

 and 6 isolated Uredo Forms (5 probably new). Of the 32 species 

 described, therefore, probably 20 are new. 



HEMIUEOMYCBS, 



Uromyces Vignae, n. s. 



On Vigna vexillata, Benth. 



I found this plant (on Tara Devi) towards the end of August im- 

 mensely attacked by a species of Uromyces. The leaves were sometimes 

 almost blackened with pustules. These were irregularly scattered 

 over the leaf blade on both surfaces, but more freely over the lower 



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