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SOUTH AFEICAN PEEISPOEIACEAE. 
By Ethel M. Doidge. 
(With Plate IV.) 
(Eead May 15, 1918.) 
III. Notes on Four Species op Meliola Hitherto Unrecorded 
FROM South Africa. 
The fungi under consideration are all from Natal and the eastern part 
of the Cape Province, and have been identified from recent collections. 
Meliola malacotricha Speg. has been recorded from South America on 
Leguminosae, and has now been collected on plants belonging to this family 
in two localities in Natal. 
M. hicornis Wint. is also recorded as occurring commonlv on Legu- 
minosae. The type specimen was collected in the island of S. Thome, and 
later it was found in South America. Stevens in his monograph on ' The 
Genus Meliola in Porto Eico ' states that numerous collections of this 
species have been made in Porto Eico, all on plants belonging to the same 
family. 
The only record which I can find of its occurrence on a non- leguminous 
plant is in ' Le G-enre Meliola' (Graillard), where it is stated that a variety 
occurs on Groton sp. The present specimen, which agrees in every particular 
with the description, and which has been carefully compared with Winter's 
specimen (Fung. Eur. No. 3545), is on the leaves of Oncinotis inandensis, a 
plant belonging to the natural order Apocynaceae. 
M. palmicola Wint. appears to be a species with a very wide distribution; 
it was first collected in Tonkin, and has subsequently been found on various 
palms in America and in India (Syd. Ann. Myc. xi, p. 382). 
M, geniculata Syd. & But. was described as occurring on Odina Wodier 
in India. The South African specimen on Rhus spp. has somewhat larger 
perithecia, hyphopodia and spores than are called for by the description, in 
the size of the spores approaching more nearly to M. Butleri ; but the form 
of the hyphopodia and the character of the setae correspond exactly with 
those described and illustrated for M. geniculata. 
The South African specimens also occur on hosts of the same family as 
Odina Wodier on which the type-specimen occurs. 
