562 Pyrenomycetae, Hysterlaceae, Lembosia. 



innato-superficialibus, carbonaceis. in greges orbiculares atros su- 

 biculo radiante fibrilloso ex Lyphis obscure brunneis denseque in- 

 tertexis composito circumdatos, 3-5 mm. latos dense confertis, sub- 

 inde confluentibus, primitus globulosis, dein ellipticis vel angulatis, 

 ca. 300-600 [j,. longis, atris, rima longitudinali dehiscentibus ; ascis 

 late clavatis, apice rotundatis incrassatisque. 45-60 » 24-32, 2-4-3po- 

 ris; sporidiis distichis, ellipsoideo-oblongis, utrinque rotundatis, 

 medio valde constrictis, primo hyalinis, tandem obscure brunneis, 

 26-32*13-18; paraphysibus numerosis, filiformibus, hyalinis. 



Hdb. in foliis E-hododendri spec, Banajao, provincia of La- 

 guna, Luzon, ins. Philipp. (C. B. Robinson;. — Lenib. Albersii 

 affinis sed sporidiis crassioribus in asco binis v. quaternis mox di- 

 gnoscenda. 



4. Lembosia Drymidis Lev. — Syll. II, p. 743, IX, p. 1105 — var. 62il 

 baccharidincola Rehm., Ann. Mycol. V (1907) p. 532; VII (1909) 



p. 407. — Maculis mycelii epiphyllis, orbicularibus, haud rite con- 

 spicuis, fusco-nigritulis, 2-4 mm. diam.; hyphis mycelium tenuis- 

 simum formantibus, subramosis, fuscis, 5 [j.. crassis, ex basi peri- 

 thecii centrifugaliter repentibus ; peritheciis primitus semiglobosis, 

 2-6 in centro mycelii arcte adnatis, rimis trigonis apertis, 0,1-1,5 

 mm. ; ascis ovoideo-globosis, 40 « 30, octosporis ; sporidiis oblongis, 

 utrinque rotundatis, primitus. hyalinis, dein fuscis, medio septatis 

 et subconstrictis, utraque cellula s;epe 1-guttata, 18-20*9-10. 



Hab. in foliis Baccharidis vivis, Nossa Senhor, Sao Paulo 

 BrasilisB (Usteri). — A typo differt peritheciis epiphyllis dispersis, 

 sessilibus in maculis late diffusis nigro-fuscidulis. primitus hemi- 

 sphsericis, clausis, dein fere semper 3-4-gonis, rarissime sublongatis. 



5. Lembosia CoccoJobae Earle, Bull. of the New York Bot. Gard. 52i( 

 (1904) pag. 301. — Epiphylia; maculis brunneis, primum siepe 

 stellatis, dein orbicularibus, 4-6 mm. v. confluentibus et subeffu- 

 sis; mycelio sparso, fusco, mox late effuso, hyphis continuis vel 

 sparse septatis, hinc inde subramosis et anastomosantibus, angu- 



tis, 3-4 [x. cr. ; hyphopodiis sessilibus, ovoideis, obscure fuscis, par- 

 vis, circ. 7*6; ascomatibus sparsis, discretis, nigris, linearibus, 

 rectis v. curvulis, apice obtusis, 300-600 » 100, subiculo angusto, 

 ex filis mycelialibus 15-40 [x. long. constituto; ascis ellipsoideis 

 35 * 20; sporidiis inordinatis, curvatis, imequaliter uniseptatis, hya- 

 linis, 16 « 7. 



Hab. in foliis vivis Coccolobfe uviferoe, Porto Eico Amer. 

 centr. (Hellee). 



