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merely mentioned the growth on potato 

 as yellowish-white and lichenoid with- 

 out describing any aerial mycelium. 

 Balfour in 1911 reported a case but gave 

 no data, and Fiilleborn limited his de- 

 scription to the grain (Arch. Schiffs. 

 Trop. Hyg., 15, 1911, 131). This species 

 was first placed in Indiella, a genus of 

 fungi, by Brumpt (1906, loc. cit.). Later 

 Brumpt (1913, loc. cit.) proposed a new 

 genus or subgenus, Indiellopsis , contain- 

 ing the single species Indiellopsis 

 somaliensis . 



Source : Yellow-grained mycetoma, 

 Khartoum (Balfour, 4th Rept. Wellcome 

 Trop. Res. Lab., A. Med., London, 

 1911, 365). 



Habitat : This condition has been ob- 

 served by Baufford in French Somaliland, 

 by Balfour {loc. cit.) in the Anglo-Egyp- 

 tian Sudan, by Fiilleborn (loc. cit.) in 

 German So. West Africa and by Chalmers 

 and Christopherson {loc. cit.) in the 

 Sudan. 



72. Streptomyces panjae (Erikson) 

 comb. nov. {Actinomyces panja Erikson, 

 Med. Res. Council Spec. Rept. Ser. 203, 

 1935, 36.) Named for Dr. Panja who 

 first secured the culture. 



Description from Erikson {loc. cit., 

 p. 16). 



LTnicellular mycelium with slender 

 branching filaments ; very small round 

 colonies ; no aerial mycelium visible on 

 any medium, but occasional isolated 

 aerial branches. Non-acid-fast. 



Gelatin: Complete liquefaction in 

 4 days. 



Agar : Colorless irregularly piled up 

 convoluted growth; after 1 month, 

 easily detachable, brownish. 



Glucose agar : Small colorless coiled 

 mass in 1 week; heaped up green growth 

 in 2 weeks. 



Glycerol agar : Poor growth, scant 

 colorless patch. 



Ca-agar : Colorless to pink spreading 

 growth with minute discrete colonies at 

 margin; after 2 weeks, bright red mass, 



buckled and shining, colorless sub- 

 merged margin. 



Coon's agar : Small submerged colorless 

 growth. 



Potato agar ; Small elevated convoluted 

 colorless masses with purple tinge in 

 center. 



Dorset's egg medium: Small round 

 tough colorless colonies, margin well em- 

 bedded; after 3 weeks, colonies elevated, 

 warted, darkened, medium discolored 

 and broken; slight degree of liquefaction, 

 medium dark brown. 



Serum agar: Colorless, glistening, piled 

 up, convoluted mass. 



Inspissated serum: Small round blister 

 colonies and irregularly convoluted 

 patches deeply sunk in pitted medium; 

 after 2 weeks, medium transparent, 

 slight degree of liquefaction. 



Broth : Flakes and minute colorless 

 colonies. 



Glucose broth : Poor growth, scant 

 flakes, pinkish. 



Synthetic sucrose solution : Pinkish 

 flocculi; after 3 weeks, moderate growth, 

 minute colorless colonies. 



Milk: Coagulation; pale green surface 

 growth; mostly digested in 2 weeks. 



Litmus milk: Soft coagulum, color un- 

 changed ; after 2 months, mostly digested, 

 residue coagulum light purple. 



Source : From an ulcer of the abdominal 

 wall, Calcutta. 



73. Streptomyces willmorei (Erikson) 

 comb. nov. {Actinomyces vnlhnorei Erik- 

 son, Med. Res. Council Spec. Rept. Ser. 

 203, 1935, 36.) Named for Dr. Willmore 

 who isolated the culture. 



Description from Erikson {loc. cit., 

 p. 19). 



Germination usual, but growing uni- 

 cellular mycelium frequently branches 

 at very short intervals, presenting pe- 

 culiar clubbed and budding forms with 

 occasional separate round swollen cells 

 which may represent the cystites of other 

 writers. The filaments are character- 

 isticallj' long, homogeneous, and much 

 interwoven. Aerial mycelium is profuse 



