NOTES ON NEW OR RARE SPECIES OF RAVENELIA 
W. H. Lone 
While on recent field work in Texas, the writer collected several 
very interesting species of Ravenelia. Some of them are unde- 
scribed, while others have heretofore been known only from their 
type collections. Several of them are Mexican, while one is a 
South American species. 
Ravenelia hoffmanseggiae, sp. nov. 
O. Pycnia unknown. 
Il. Uredinia amphigenous, scattered, orbicular to irregularly 
oval, liver brown,’ subepidermal, ruptured epidermis prominent; 
paraphyses none; urediniospores obovate, ellipsoid to subglobose, 
16-25 by 25-30, average for 10 spores 19.7 by 26.7, walls — 
thin, 1-1.5 w, uniform in thickness and concolorous, capucine buff 
in color, sparsely and minutely echinulate when dry but appearing 
as if smooth when wet; germ pores 8, situated in two irregular — 
rows of 4 each, one row subequatorial, the other near apex of spore, 
ee - 
Ii Telia unknown. 
se On Cassiaceae. Ty Nected oa Hoffmoniers! taps at Del 1 Rio, : 
‘Texas, November 6, ion 6, by W. Doce 6082)? This isthe ist cole. 
tion « fmanseggia 
is widely distributed throughout those “regions where species of Rasenelia 
flourish 
