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Stromata scattered, small, hypophyllous ; perithecia narrowly 

 flask-shaped, the neck dilated at the apex to form a flattened tip 

 resembling somewhat that of C. fructicola, but considerably nar- 

 rower and consequently less prominent than in that species ; 

 method of dehiscence undetermined but probably by fimbriate- 

 laceration as indicated by the slightly fuzzy appearance of the 

 apex of the perithecium ; asci 60 X 17-20 jx (p. sp.), 2-spored ; 

 spores 11-15/x in diam., pycnidia present; pycnospores hyaline, 

 yellowish in mass, fusiform-, 5-8 X 2 /x. 



Parasitic on Podocarpus milanjiani in central Africa. Known 

 only from the original collection, and from the type locality near 

 Ruwenzori. 



The species is founded upon a fragmentary bit of the type 

 material of Corynelia clavata f. macrospora Sydow. Only a 

 single mature perithecium was obtained for study, but this was 

 sufficient to show that the fungus is very unlike C. clavata (C. 

 uberata) and cannot be regarded as a variety of that species. It 

 is probable that a critical examination of the remainder of the 

 original collection at Berlin would make possible a more complete 

 description of the fungus, particularly with reference to the 

 method of dehiscence of the perithecium. 



Sydow (50) states that Corynelia clavata f. macrospora differs 

 from the type species in its larger spores, 10-17 X 10-14 [x, but 

 agrees in all of its other characters. He states further that the 

 spores of the type never exceed 9-1 i/x. The writer's observa- 

 tions differ from those of Sydow in several essential points. In 

 C. clavata measurements of spores from a number of collections 

 show that mature spores average 12 fx in diameter and frequently 

 reach 14 /a, thus considerably exceeding the limit set by Sydow. 

 In C. clavata f. macrospora the spores measure 11-15/x. in the 

 fragment examined but fail to reach the maximum diameter of 

 17 fx given by Sydow. The 2-spored asci serve to distinguish the 

 fungus from C. clavata; moreover the appearance of the peri- 

 thecium in the two forms is not the same. Several dozen 

 2-spored asci may be clearly seen in the slide deposited in the 

 writer's herbarium and no variation from the 2-spored condition 

 has been observed. 



