CuxNixaHAM.— The Uredinales, or ut fangs, of New Zealand. 37 
Host: Coprosma foetidissima Forst. On leaves and petioles. Herb. 
No. 771. Alpha Hut, Mount Hector (Wellington), 1,700 m., H. Hamilton / 
J. Ө. Myers! 15 Feb., 1921. 
The host is endemic, and is abundant throughout. (Cheeseman, 1906, 
upright ушын peridia and large size of the spores serve to 
characterize this spec 
8. Aecidium Celmisiae - discoloris n. form-sp.  (Text-fig. 111, and 
Plate 2, fig. 2.) Compositae. 
0. Spermogones scattered, Mig epiphyllous, immersed. 
I. Aecidia amphigenous, -chiefly epiphyllous, orange-yellow, scattered 
or arranged in small orbicular groups. deum cylindrical, erumpent, 
stan mm. above the leaf-surface, 0-1 . diam., margins incurved, 
at first dentate, becoming deeply lacis, "white. "Spores subglobose, 
elliptical, or obovate, 36-42 x 2 mmm.; epispore hyaline, covered 
"with densely-packed Заасан tubereules, З mmm. thick, cell-contents 
cr hal granular. 
Hosts :— 
Celmisia discolor Hook. f. On leaves. Herb. No. 384. Mount 
Peel (Canterbury), 900 m., H. H. Allan! 6 March, 1921. Tooth 
Peaks (Otago), W. D. Reid! 7 April, 1921. (Type. 
Celmisia Sinclairii Hook. f. x Nos. 385, 435. Lake Harris 
track (Otago), 1,000m., W. Reid! 6 pd 1921. Mount 
Isobel, Hanmer (Canterbury), 15 m., W. D. Reid! 4 Nov. 
Celmisia prorepens Petrie. Herb. No. 385. Mount Dick (Otago), 
m., W. D. Reid! 24 April, 1921. 
three hosts are endemic, and all are confined to the mountain-ranges 
of the ее Island. (Cheeseman, 1906, pp. 303—6. 
ecies is characterized by the small cylindrical peridia, and more 
Bcc by the fact that the е is covered with a layer of closely- 
packed, coarse, deciduous tuberc ium Celmisiae-Petriei is the 
only other New Zealand species that possesses this feature. 
9. Aecidium Celmisiae-petiolatae n. form-sp. (Text-fig. 110, and Plate 2, 
fig. 3.) 
0. Unknown. 
pallid orange. Регійіа flattened-globose, 0-25 mm. diam., immersed, mar- 
gins incurved, hyaline, covered by the dense tomentum clothing the leaf- 
surface. Spores polygonal, elliptical, or obovate, 27-45 x 20-26 mmm. 
epispore hyaline, densely and minutely verruculose, 1-1-5 mmm. thick, 
-— granular, tinted yellow. 
: Celmisia petiolata Hook. f. On leaves. Herb. No. 383. Arthur's 
Pus. быйан, 1,000 m., E. Н. Atkinson! 15 Feb., 1920. (Туре.) 
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southern portion of the South Island. (Cheeseman, 1906, 
This rust is characterized by the depressed-globose aecidia, large spores, 
and hyaline, finely verruculose epispore. Sections are necessary to deter- 
mine the shape and size of the peridium. 
