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3. Uropyxis quitensis Lagerh., sp. nov. (on Berberidaceae).— 
Berberis sp., Quito, Ecuador, April, 1891, II, III, G. Lagerheim. 
Uredinia and telia hypophyllous, few, but with numerous spores 
scattered over the leaf surface, yellowish; urediniospores globoid 
or broadly ellipsoid, 19-23 by 23-24, the wall nearly or quite 
colorless, finely and closely echinulate, thin, 1 wu, the pores indistinct; 
teliospores broadly ellipsoid, 20-23 by 21-26, rounded at both 
ends, or flattened and sometimes introverted by drying, slightly or 
not constricted at septum, the wall pale cinnamon brown or nearly 
colorless, thin, 1-1.5 4, smooth, the pores obscure but seemingly 
lateral; pedicel short, fragile, usually attached more or less 
obliquely, breaking away near the spore. 
The spores are more delicate than in other known species of the 
genus, and the germ pores correspondingly more indistinct. It is 
also the first species to show smooth teliospores, although in U. 
texana they are so little roughened as to appear smooth by the usual 
method of examination. The obliquely attached pedicels and the 
thin walls of the teliospores evidently led LAGERHEIM to attach the 
tentative name of Sphenospora quitensis to the specimens which he 
distributed. 
Cleptomyces, gen. nov. 
a of development includes pycnia and telia, both subepi- 
ermal. 
Pycnia flask-shaped, with ostiolar filaments. 
Telia erumpent, definite; teliospores pedicillate, 2-celled with 
transverse septum; wall laminate, inner layer firm, colored, outer 
layer more or less hygroscopic, colorless, overlaid by the verrucose 
cuticle, the pores 4 or more and equatorial or scattered. 
Type species, Puccinia Lagerheimiana Dietel (Hedwigia 31: 288. 
1892). 
4. Cleptomyces Lagerheimianus (Dietel), comb. nov. (on 
Verbenaceae).—Aegiphila sp., Toldo near Riobamba, Ecuador, 
August 1891, O, III, G. Lagerheim. 
This short cycle species from the Ecuadorian province of 
Chimborazo was styled by Dreret “a very remarkable one”’ in his 
extended comments following the original technical description of 
Puccinia Lagerheimiana. He was especially impressed with the 
number and arrangement of the germ pores, but decided that these 
did not constitute sufficient grounds on which to remove it from the 
