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THREE ASIATIC FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
The following were collected by Maingay at the same time 
that his collection of Lichens was made : — 
Diplodia pterocarpi, Cke. 
Sparsa, semi-immersa, punctiformis ; peritheciis atris, opacis, 
subglohosis ; sporis ovato- ellipticis, obtusis, uniseptatis, fuscis 
(•01-*012 x '006-‘007 mm.), vix constrictis. 
On bark of Pterocarpus Indicus. Malacca. 
The perithecia have somewhat the appearance of a Ven'ucaria, 
with which the species was probably confounded when gathered. 
The spores are smaller than usual in this genus, and less opaque. 
Hypoxylon cocoinum, Cke. 
Sparsa, emergens, atra, nitida, subconoidea vel hgemispherica, 
simplex vel confluens, ad basim applanata ; ascis cylindricis, stipi- 
tatis ; sporidiis ovato -ellipticis, obtusis, simplicibus, atrofuscis 
(/Ol-’Ol^ x ’066 mm.). 
On stems and petioles of cocoanut palm. Malacca. 
Conisphaeria Maingayi, Cke. 
Sparsa, semi-immersa, atra, subconoidea, papillata ; ascis cylin- 
dricis, stipitatis ; sporidiis uniseriatis, fusiformibus, utrinque 
acutis, hyalinis, 3-5 septatis, nec constrictis (‘025 x *004 mm.). 
On bark. Near Shanghai. 
The above specimens are in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens 
at Kew. 
CRYPTOSPHiERIA MILLEPUNCTATA, Grev. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
In 1826 Dr. Gre ville published in his “ Scottish Cryptogamic 
Flora,” a plate and description of a Sphceria which lie named 
Cryptosphceria millepunctata , with this diagnosis : “ Perithecia 
numerous, immersed beneath the epidermis, sub-regularly scat- 
tered, globose, black, the orifice very short, obtuse, scarcely ex- 
serted ; thecae acute at the apex ; the sporidia linear, curved.” — 
PI. 201. And he says of it : “ On the decaying branches of the 
common Ash (. Fraxinus excelsior ), the whole year, frequent.” 
And again he says : “ The branches of the Ash tree producing 
this species seem to the naked eye to be covered with innumerable 
minute black dots. Under the microscope these are found to be 
the orifices of perithecia concealed beneath the epidermis.” And 
yet again he says : “ I have never seen it except upon the Ash ; 
but in this country it is of very frequent occurrence.” Two years 
previous to this (1824) it had also been described in similar terms 
by Greville, under the same name in his “ Flora Edinensis ” (p. 
360): “Nothing,” he says, “is visible of this species to the 
