185 
UREDINE®. 
Puccinia Virg-aurem, Libert, Crypt. Arduenn., fasc. iv, no. 393. 
aca living leaf of Solidago sempervirens, Linn., St. George's, 
ummins, 
Costa Rica. 
ASCOMYCETES. 
A 41 
B la, Massee (sp. nov.). Stroma erumpens, 
diate: atrum, 1-2 mm. latum. Perithecia subglobosa, ostiolo 
vix visibile. Asci eee on -fusiformi. Spore uw te 
hyaline, elongato-elliptice, utrinque acute, continue, glabra 
17-20 x 4-5 u. Paraph yn filiformes 
n dead leaves of Anthurium gracile, Lindbl.: Atino, Prov. 
DM at 2100 ft., Donnell Smith, 6813. 
CHILE. 
PERONOSPOREE. 
Cystopus Portulace, Lév. in Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 3, viii. (1847) 
371: 
"On living leaves of Calandrinia axilliflora, Barn., Santiago 
Philippi. 
DCLIX.--MANGABEIRA RUBBER. 
(Hancornia speciosa, Gomez.) 
we Nowe tua: tcu die pp. 67 and 69; 1898, pp. 179, 180) 
no account of this r has been given in the pages of the 
Kew Bulletin. The dar ill, short Sates appeared in the Kew 
Reports :— 
Hancornia speciosa.—Our attention having been drawn to this 
plant as the source of Mangabeira rubber, steps were taken to 
« own 
.—. Report on er pp. 23, 24). The rubber appears 
o be of good quality, and the tree has also the merit of producing 
= excellent fruit shout the ve ege an Orleans plum, and yellow 
in colour, speckled with red. The fruit, in fact, in Pernambuco, 
is more valued than the caoutchouc. 
I extract the following information from Consul Bonham's 
Report on the Trade of Pernambuco (1819) :— 
beira rubber is obtained from the trees of that name, 
which are to be found in large numbers in the bacio of this, as 
well as of the other northern provinces. The reports which I 
