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7. Asterina reticulata Kalch. & Cke. 
Grrevillea, ix, p. 33 ; Sjll. Fung, i, p. 40. 
Asterostomella reticulata (K. & Cke.) v. Holm., Fragm. z. Myk. 493. 
Plate XIY, fig. 12. Slides XXVI, 7-8. 
Amphigenous, forming black, carbonaceous, sub-orbicular spots ; or 
spreading, chiefly along the veins and leaf margins. Mycelium spreading, 
reticulate ; hyphae light brown, 5-6 ^ thick, straight, cells 15-30 /x long ; 
branches usually opposite, anastomosing ; hyphopodia alternate or unilateral, 
briefly stipitate, club-shaped, hooked or slightly lobed, 7-13 x 6-8 /v. 
Thyriothecia flattened-hemispherical, composed of radiating hyphae 3-3*5 ^ 
thick, cells 3*5-4 fj. long, cubical ; margin fimbriate, dehiscence irregular- 
stellate. Asci ovate, sessile, aparaphysate, 45-50 x 30-33 fj,. Spores con- 
globate, 1-septate, constricted, brown, smooth, 20-23 x 10 ^w. ; loculi sub-equal 
or upper loculus slightly broader, each cell almost spherical. Pycnidia 
similar to the thyriothecia but smaller, 100-150 n diam. ; conidia brown 
with a medial hyaline band, ellipsoid or pyriform, 16-20 x 7-10 
On leaves of Olinia cymosa, Boschberg, Cape Province, 1877, MacOwan 
(MacOwan, 1336, Eabh.-Wint. Fung. Eur. 3337), Asterostomella stage only. 
On Olinia sp,, Barberton, 18/1/91, Galpin (Galpin, 1275). 
MacOwan's specimen shows only the conidial stage, and was on that 
account referred by v. Hohnel to the genus Asterostomella. I have not 
succeeded in collecting this fungus myself but was fortunate in finding the 
thyriothecia and asco spores on a specimen of Olinia in the Galpin 
herbarium. 
8. Asterina uneinata Doidge, sp. nov. 
Plate XIV, fig. 13. Slides X, 15-16. 
Hypophyllous, etfuse ; mycelium light brown, delicate, branching 
irregularly and anastomosing ; hyphae undulating, 5-6 /x thick, cells 26-33 /a 
long ; hypopodia alternate, unilateral or opposite, stipitate, 20-40 /x long, 
stipe 1-3-celled, 7-30 /x long, cylindrical, equal in thickness to the hyphae, 
straight, curved, or abruptly geniculate, occasionally bearing two terminal 
cells ; terminal cell club-shaped or cylindrical, straight or uncinate, the 
curve being in the same direction as, or in the opposite direction to that of 
the stipe, occasionally sub-lobed. Thyriothecia large, rather pale and 
covered with a network of hyphae, flattened-hemispherical, 200-280 jx diam., 
composed of radiating hyphae 3-5 fx thick — these are straight except at the 
margin, where they become tortuous; cells 3*5-7 /x long; dehiscence by a 
central pore, which developes into a stellate fissure ; margin not fimbriate. 
Asci aparaphysate, spherical or ovate, 42-50 x 40-45 /x. Spores smooth, 
dark brown, opaque, 30-34 x 16-20 /x, deeply constricted ; each loculus 
ovoid; upper loculus 18-20 />t broad, lower loculus 14-16 /x broad. 
