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ampulliform with a straight or curved neck, 15-20 x 6-7 u. Mycelial setae very numerous, 
erect, abruptly geniculate at the base or taking a broad curve upwards, opaque, 250-350 u. 
long, 10-11°5 wu thick, dividing near the apex into two or three short spreading branches, 
10-17 u long, each of these being divided at the apex into two or three small tapering 
branches, 6-10 u long, occasionally the latter are themselves bidentate. Perithecia not 
numerous, black, carbonaceous, globose, 250-300 u diameter. Spores straight, brown, 
cylindrical, four-septate, constricted obtuse, 43-46 «x 16 u. [Fig. 3.] 
71. Meliola oleicola n. sp. 
Sub. M. amphitricha, Proc. Roy. Soc., South Africa, V, p. 733. 
Amphigenous, forming round, dull-black spots, 2-4 mm. diameter, or greater areas 
by confluence. Mycelium olivaceous, very freely branched and interwoven; branches 
$ se 
Fig. 3. 
opposite, anastomosing ; capitate hyphopodia alternate, stipitate, 26-30 u long, terminal 
cell ovate or club-shaped, straight or somewhat curved, 18-20 x 10 u, stipe cell short, closely 
appressed to or forming an acute angle with the branch. Mucronate hyphopodia on 
separate branches, opposite, alternate or unilateral, slender ampulliform, base not much 
wider than curved neck, 20-23 x 6-7 u. Mycelial setae rather numerous, scattered, 
simple, straight or slightly flexuous, 240-300 vu. long, 9-10 u thick at base, opaque up to 
acute apex. Perithecia not very numerous, globose, 220-250 uv. diameter, verrucose : surface 
cells convex. Asci two to four spored, early evanescent. Spores oblong, four-septate, 
very slightly constricted, broadly rounded at both ends, chestnut-brown when mature, 
45-50 x 20-23 u. [Fig. 4.] 
On leaves of Olea laurifolia, Buccleuch, Natal, 17.7.18, Doidge [11557]; Lemana, 
Zoutpansberg District, 7.8.11, Doidge [1835]; Tabankulu, Pondoland, 4.4.15 [9103]; 
Woodville Forest, George, 11.11.17, Doidge [10937]. 
