MELANCONIACEAE 431 



form, for a long time covered by epidermis, which is 

 eventually ruptured, the conidia usually escaping in the 

 form of mucilaginous tendrils, bright-coloured or pallid ; 

 couidia slenderly fusiform, elongated, continuous, hyaline. 



Libertella uleerata, Massee {sp. nov.). — Pustules gre- 

 garious, numerous, minute, eventually rupturing the epi- 

 dermis, the conidia being extruded in the form of pale- 

 coloured, viscid tendrils ; conidia fusiform, ends acute, 

 continuous, curved, hyaline, 55-60x4 /u. 



Melanconium, Link. — Pustules or nuclei subcutaneous, 

 conoid or discoid, black ; conidia produced singly at the 

 tips of basidia, globose or oblong, continuous, fuliginous, 

 often extruded as viscid masses or tendrils. 



Melanconium pandani, Lev., Ann. Set. Nat., Bot, 1845, 

 p. 66. — Acervuli erumpent, large, black, conoid, often 

 aggregated in black, warty lines, 1-2 mm. diam. ; conidia 

 oozing out in black tendrils or irregular masses, pale olive, 

 elliptic, oblong, straight or slightly bent, often 2-guttulate, 

 size variable, 5-9 X 3-4/*; conidiophores elongated, branched, 

 curved. 



Described from a portion of Leveille's specimen, now in 

 Herb., Kew. 



Ooryneum, Rees. — Fruit pustules discoid or pulvinate, 

 subcutaneous, erumpent, compact, black; conidia oblong 

 or fusoid, 2-many-septate, fuliginous j basidia filiform. 

 Conidia never extruded as a viscid tendril. 



Coryneum beyerinckii, Oud., Hedw., 1883, p. 113. — 

 Fruit clusters very minute, dotlike, black, gregarious; 

 conidia springing from a brownish, parenchymatous, 

 pulvinate stroma, crowded, oblong or oblong-obovate, pale 



