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SOUTH AFRICAN PERISPOEIACEAE. 
By Ethel M. Doidge, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. 
(With Plates Y and VI.) 
(Eead June 19, 1918.) 
TV. New Species from the Coast Districts. 
Of the nine new species of fungi described below, six belong to the genus 
Meliola, of which forty-two species have now been recorded as occurring in 
South Africa. 
Meliola Evansii is closely related to M. ganglifera, from which it differs 
chiefly in the size of the spores and in the size and form of the hypho podia. 
The section characterised by the presence of peritliecial appendages is a 
comparatively small one, and up to the present only one species has been 
described — M. Bosciae, from the Natal coast. Three more species belonging 
to the section have now been collected, and these may be distinguished by 
the following characters : 
Section II, b : Spores 4- septate, setae perithecial. 
a. Spores less than 40 /j. long. 
X. Setae straight, M. Kentaniensis. 
XX. Setae uncinate, M. claviculata. 
h. Spores 40-50 /x long. 
X. Spores 10-14 fx broad, M. Bosciae. 
XX. Spores 15-17 fi broad, M. comata. 
The two remaining species belong to the large section with 4-septate spores 
and simple mycelial setae. 
M. Loxostylidis is closely allied to M. Bhois, from which it differs in the 
form and number of the mycelial setae. M. Cryptocaryae comes nearest to 
M. microthecia, but is distinguished from that species by the larger size of 
the perithecia and by other minor differences. 
Meliola comata Doidge n. sp. 
Amphigena, plerumque epiphylla, maculas atras, 1-3 mm. diam. efficiens ; 
hyphis fuscis, subflexuosis, 7-8 /x crassis ; ramis plerumque oppositis ; hypho- 
podiis capitatis alternis, stipitatis, 18-25 x 9-10 /x, cellula basali 4-6 /xlonga, 
prope hypham attenuata, cellula superiore ovata v. angulata ; hyphopodiis 
