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VERNONIA Sclireb. 
13. Puccinia vernoniicola P. Heun. 
Puccinia vernoniicola P. Henn., in Engler Oostafrikan Pflanzenwelt, p. 50 
(1895) ; Sacc. Syll. xiv, p. 317 ; Sydow, Monogr. i, p. 177, f. 155. 
Teleutospores. — Sori hypophyllous, spots dark, absent or rudimentary, 
scattered, round, 2-2| mm, diam,, pulvinate, ochraceous ; spores club- 
shaped, rounded at the apex, not thickened, slightly constricted at the 
middle, attenuated at the base, smooth, hyaline-yellow, 45-70 x 20-27 fx, 
epispore very thin ; pedicel hyaline, thick, persistent, up to 100 /x long. 
On leaves of Vernonia angulifolia, Table Mountain Location, Natal (C. 
Fuller), 18:5:1911. (Poie Evans, 1618.) Winkle Spruit, Natal, 
6:8: 1912. (Pole Evans, 2498.) Plate XLIX, fig. 15. 
This fungus was first recorded in 1895 on a Vernonia from Tropical 
East Africa at Marangu. 
14. Puccinia inflorescenticola Pole Evans, n.sp. 
Soris teleutosporiferis in infiorescentibus evolutis et maxime hyper- 
trophico-deformatis insidentibus, nigris, confluentibus, irregularibus, bullas 
fusiformes et gallaeformes usque 3-4 cm. longas efformantibus ; teleuto- 
sporis cylindricis cylindrico-clavatis vel fusiformibus, apice plerumque 
rotundatis vel interdum acutiusculis, valde incrassatis (usque 9 /x), medio 
leniter constrictis, basi attenuatis, levibus, flavobrunneis, 40-60 x 18-22 /x ; 
pedicello colorato, crasso, persistenti, usque 63 [x longo. 
Hab. in infiorescentibus Vernoniae sp., Rosehaugh, Transvaal (T. R. 
Sim), 3:6: 1914. (Pole Evans, 7802.) Plate XLIX, fig. 16. 
