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mycelio radiato ; liypliis tenuibus, 4-5 [i crassis, tortuosis, dense intertextis, 
celliilis 30-50 fi longis ; ramis alternis, liyphopodiis capitatis alternis, 
tenuibus, stipitatis, 30-80 x 13-20 /x, stipite interdum elongato et 1-sep- 
tato, 14-64 fx long., diverse flexuoso v. curvato, cellula superiore 16 /x fere 
long-a ; irregulare, plerumque sub-lobata, nonnunquam inverse triangulata ; 
liyphopodiis mucronatis parcis, pallidioribus, tenuibus, 18-20 x 5-6 ju, am- 
pullaceis v. gibbosis ; setis nullis ; peritlieciis numerosis, globosis, atris, 
carbonaceis, 300-400 /x diani., appendiculis numerosis, larviformibus, sub- 
cylindraceis v. acclivis, 65-80 X 25-30 /x apice interdum recurvatis ; asci 
evanidis ; sporidiis 3-septatis, ellipsoideis, vix constrictis, 45-50 x 15-16*5 [i. 
In foliis Celastrvs cordatvs? Buccleuch, Natal, 17/7/18, leg. Doidge 
(11565). 
Meliola Hendeloti Gaill. 
On Clerodendron sp. Buccleuch (11571). ' 
Meliola inermis Kalch & Cke. 
0\\ Buddleia pzdcJiella Buccleuch (11568). 
On Chiliantlim dyso]}hyllus Buccleuch (11583). 
This species has only been recorded in South Africa on Buddleia spp. 
Meliola malacotricJia Speg. 
On Indigofera cyJindrica Buccleuch (11560). 
Meliola microsjwra Pat. & G-aill. var. Africana on Flectrantlius sp. Buccleuch 
(11576). 
Meliola natalensis Doidge. 
This species was described ('Trans. Eoy. Soc. S.A.,' vol. v, pt. 6, p. 
724) on leaves of shrub unknown, Umgeni, near Durban (8980) ; on com- 
parison with named specimens this host appears to be Bovyalis tristis, and 
the same species has been collected by Dr. Pole Evans on Bovyalis rJiam- 
noides (Umgeni Beach, Durban, 4/6/12 [2312]). 
The original specimen of Meliola conferta Doidge (ibid., p. 724) is also 
on Bovyalis rhamnoides, and consists of some rather old material collected 
by Dr. Medley Wood ; more recent collections on this host show that the 
spores in the type collection have collapsed somewhat and appear wider than 
normal, so that the normal measurement of the spores is 40-45 x 14-16*5 /x, 
rarely larger. This being the case M, conferta only differs from M. nata- 
lensis in the more crowded habit and the slightly smaller hyphopodia. 
In a recent collection at Buccleuch on Bovyalis tristis there is a form 
which agrees with M. natalensis in the form of its hyphopodia and spores^ 
but with quite a different habit (Fig. 5) from either M. natalensis or M. 
conferta ; the mycelium is very diffuse, not forming definite spots, and the 
hyphopodia are very remote. I can only conclude that these are all forms; 
