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Tropical East Africa: Fitzpatrick Herb. No. 1 195 (material 

 found in phanerogamic herbarium at N. Y. Bot. Garden, on 

 leaves of Podocarpus gracilior collected by Whyte in 1898 and 

 communicated by Roy. Hort. Bot. Gard. Kew) ; U. S. D. A. 

 Bur. PI. Ind. herb, (material found in phanerogamic herbarium 

 of U. S. Nat. Museum on leaves of P. gracilior, No. 630548, 

 collected by E. A. Mearns). 



Japan: Fitzpatrick Herb. No. 1639 (material collected by S. 

 Kawagae on Yaku Island, Prefecture Kagoshima on Podo- 

 carpus Nageia, communicated by G. Yamada, Morioko, Japan). 



Philippine Islands, Laguna, Luzon: Fitzpatrick Herb. No. 1750 

 (material communicated by Otto Reinking). 



5. Corynelia nipponensis sp. nov. 

 Type : in Fitzpatrick Herb. Nos. 1204 and 1644. 



(Figure 19) 



Stromata scattered, 1-4 mm. in diameter, hypophyllous, elon- 

 gated at right angles to the long axis of the leaf, the epidermis 

 rupturing by a definite transverse slit, occasionally more or less 

 circular, bearing a crowded cluster of 10-40 or more perithecia ; 

 perithecium top-shaped, the sides tapering toward a narrowed 

 base, smooth, the broad flat apex more or less rounded, and 

 traversed by a shallow furrow which evidently marks the line 

 of dehiscence ; ruptured perithecia not seen ; perithecia crushed, 

 on the slide shown to consist of long, brown, parallel hyphae 

 which give a characteristic and diagnostic appearance ; asci 

 30-42 X 17-27 /x (p. sp.), 8-spored ; spores 8.5-11 /jl (mostly 10 /a) 

 in diam. 



Parasitic on Podocarpus macrophylla Don. in Japan. 



Only a single collection of this species is known to the writer. 

 Material of Podocarpus macrophylla collected in Japan was re- 

 ceived at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in January, 1893, 

 from the Science College of the Imperial University of Japan and 

 was placed in the phanerogamic herbarium. The place and date 

 of the collection and the collector's name are unknown. George 

 Massee found material of a species of Corynelia on this specimen 

 and placed it in the cryptogamic herbarium. This is labeled in 



