ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BU ds td 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
Nos. 151-152.] JULY and AUGUST. (1899. 
DCLIL—TEA AND COFFEE DISEASES. 
(With Plate.) 
BROWN BLIGHT OF TEA. 
The “ blights " which affect tea in Assam were pter cna and 
described in the Kew Bulletin for last year (pp. -112). 
Another and different one has made its appearance in Oi lon, 
and has been transmitted to Kew for investigation by Mr. J. C. 
Willis, M.A., F.L.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
DIRECTOR, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, PERADENIYA, CEYLON, 
TO ROYAL GARDENS, KEw. 
Royal Botanic Gardens, 
dec d Al 
SIR, il 10, 1899. 
By parcel post this week I send you a tin prev some 
eg n x i blight which is causing considerable 
injury to te of the planting districts of Ceylon. It 
resembles tiò “ wey blight ” of Assam (which is also common 
here) in its action on the leaf, and I have recommended similar 
measures for its eradication to those used for that pest. The 
specimens enclosed show the conidial fructification of the fungus, 
and I am sending them in the hope that you may be able to give 
me the name of the fungus to enable me to round off my inves- 
tigations into its ravages and life history. In the event of your 
publishing any account of this disease, I have to request that the 
name of the estate mentioned on the specimens be withheld from 
publication. 
Notes upon the disease are given below. 
am, &c., 
(Signed) JOHN C, WILLIS. 
The Director, 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
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