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gregarious, minute, brown ; spores oblong or subclavate, thickened at the 
apex, attenuated or rarely detruncate, constricted at the middle, smooth 
obscurely brown, 40-57 x 15-22 //, rarely up to 27 [j. broad ; pedicel coloured, 
short, deciduous. 
On leaves of H. quinquenerve, Barberton, Transvaal (I. B. Pole Evans), 
4:2:1911. (Pole Evans, 1158.) 
On leaves of Helichrysum sp., Paardeplaats, Lydenburg District (P. J. 
Pienaar), 2:5: 1911. (Pole Evans, 1491.) 
On leaves of Helichrysum quinquenerve, Barberton, Transvaal (I. B. Pole 
Evans), 29 : 8 : 1911. (Pole Evans, 1860.) 
On leaves of Helichrysum quinquenerve, Eshowe, Zululand (I. B. Pole 
Evans), 30 : 1 : 1912. (Pole Evans, 2026.) Plate XLYI, fig. 7. 
This fungus was first collected by MacOwan at Somerset East on 
Helichrysum ^etiolatum in 1879. This material has not been examined by 
the author. Sydow states that the pedicels are hyaline ; in the majority of 
specimens that I have examined they are distinctly coloured. 
6. Puccinia MacOwani Wint. 
Aecidium truncatum Kalchbr. in herb. 
Puccinia MacOwani Wint. Hedw., 1885, p. 255 ; Sydow, Monogr. i, p. 93, 
f. 82. 
Aecidiosjjores. —Aecidisb hypophyllous, on orbicular spots about 2 mm. 
diam., yellowish or brownish, often confluent, solitary or more often deposited 
loosely in groups of 2-10, white, elongated, closed at first then open, with 
an erect incised margin ; spores angular-globose, verrucose, subhyaline, 
23-32 fi diam. 
Uredos])ores. — Sori amphigenous, scattered or in groups of 2-5, of 
medium size, rounded, long, covered by the epidermis, yellowish -brown ; 
spores globose, subglobose, or ellipsoid, echinulate, yellowish-brown, 18-24 
X 24-27 ju. 
Teleutospores. — Sori hypophyllous or amphigenous, often mingled with 
the aecidia ; spots similar, scattered or frequently a few aggregated, rotund, 
minute, J-1 mm. diam., pulverulent, fuscous-brownish ; spores elongated, 
subclavate or broadly fusiform, attenuated at both ends, strongly thickened 
(up to 9 /x) at the apex, slightly constricted at the middle, smooth, light 
brown, 45-60 x 18-27 /a; pedicel thick, persistent, hyaline, equal in length 
to the spore or shorter than it. 
On leaves of : 
Helichrysum jjetiolatuni, Boschberg, Somerset East (MacOwan), July, 
1877. 
Helichrysum sp., Belfast, Transvaal (E. M. Doidge), February, 1909. 
(Pole Evans, 554.) 
