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Corynelia carpophila Sydow, Botanische Jahrbueher von Engler 

 45: 264. 1910. 



Type : in herbarium of Patouillard ; portion of this communi- 

 cated by Patouillard deposited as No. 1642 in herbarium of the 

 writer. 



(Figures 20, 21) 



Stromata fructicolous, pulvinate, black ; usually rounded, often 

 laterally confluent to form an extensive, effuse, black crust which 

 partially- or completely envelopes the fruit; individual stromata 

 1 mm. or less in diameter, covered by a crowded cluster of 

 perithecia frequently showing many stages of development on a 

 single stroma ; peritheeium resembling closely that of Tripospora 

 tripos, definitely flask-shaped, with a spherical to ovoidal, asciger- 

 ous, basal portion and a long, narrow cylindrical neck, rounded 

 and blunt at the apex ; the neck of the peritheeium provided with 

 a canal and in early stages marked at the apex with a minute 

 umbilicus, but closed ; in later stages the apex broadened to form 

 a wide, slightly convex disc the diameter of which equals or 

 exceeds that of the basal, ascigerous portion"; this disc becoming 

 fimbriate-lacerate, and assuming a reddish-brown, fuzzy appear- 

 ance, finally dehiscent, the margin recurving, forming a funnel- 

 shaped opening and exposing the lighter colored inner wall ; asci 

 11-14 X 20-25 fi (p. sp.), 8-spored ; ascospores 6.5-10.5 /x in 

 diam. ; pyenidia present ; pyenospores elongated to allantoid, 

 hyaline, 4-6 X 1 



Parasitic on Myrsine afric ana in India, on Myrsine sp. in 

 China, and on Rapanea melanophloeos in South Africa. Not 

 known on other hosts or from other localities. 



The genera Rapanea and Myrsine are very closely related, 

 being treated side by side in Das Pflanzenreich of Engler. In 

 Engler und Prantl, Die Naturliche Pflanzenfamilien, the genus 

 Myrsine is alone recognized, Rapanea being cited as a synonym. 



Patouillard (34) described Capnodium fructicolum upon ma- 

 terial collected by Delavay in China on a species of Myrsine. 

 Later Sydow (51) described Corynelia carpophila upon material 

 collected by Lane Poole in South Africa on Rapanea. Von 

 Hohnel (22) saw material collected in India by Butler and from 

 it concluded that Capnodium fructicolum is a species of Corynelia 

 and probably identical with Corynelia carpophila. The writer 



