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EXOTIC FUNGI. 
Barbados. (Bovell.) 
A very distinctly marked species, forming minute black 
patches on the leaves, which under a pocket-lens are seen to be 
velvety. Closely allied to Chcetostroma aterrimium , Cke., which 
differs from the present species, in the smaller conidia having the 
epispore distinctly verruculose, although this point is not noted in 
the diagnosis of this species. 
Phyllosticta anibae, Mass. 
Perithecia immersed, black, submembranaceous, rather pro- 
minent, conical, ostiolium minute ; about ^ m.m. across, usually 
gregarious on a pale spot sharply circumscribed by a black line, 
even when the perithecia are solitary the black circumscribing line 
is present ; spores cylindrical, ends obtuse, straight or very 
slightly curved, continuous, hyaline, 7-9 x 1'5 / 1 ; sporophores 
cylindrical, simple, hyaline, 5-6 x 1 / 1 . 
On decaying fruit of Aniba perutilis , Hemsl. 
Antioqua, N. Grenada. 
The delicate black lines bounding the infected aieas, and the 
minute black ostiolae of the perithecia give a marbled or variegated 
appearance to the surface of the fruit. 
AUSTRALIAN FUNGI. 
By M. 0. Cooke. 
Hypoxylon (Sphseroxylon) atrosphasricum, C. Sf M. 
Stroma erumpent-superticial, subglobose, 2 m.m. diam., separate, 
rarely connate, gregarious, black, externally papillate, perithecia 
peripherical, in one series, ovate, mamillate, asci cylindrical, 
sporidia fusiform, straight or curved, unequal-sided, rather acute 
at the ends, narrow, clear brown, 22 x 6 /x (rarely 8 /x). 
On bark. Queensland. (Bailey, 959.) 
Externally somewhat resembling H. cohcerens , but the stroma 
are seldom connate, smaller than II. argillaceum , and black ; the 
sporidia also are about equal in length, much narrower, and acute 
at the ends. There is no other species amongst the black series 
of Sphau'oxylon with which the sporidia could be confounded, and 
no form of H. multiforme or H . majusculum to which it could be 
referred. 
Belonidiuxn parasiticum, Cke. Sf Mass. 
Parasitic, white. Cups very minute, glabrous, concave or nearly 
plane, attacked by a central papilla, scarcely visible to the naked 
eye. Asci clavate, sporidia 8, subfusoid, straight, triseptate, 
scarcely constricted, hyaline, 22 x 4 /x. Paraphyses filiform. 
O 11 subiculum of Asterina growing upon leaflets of Torrietia 
trifoliata, 
Barrow River. Q. (Bailey, 980.) 
Near Belonidium minutissimum , but cups much smaller, sessile, 
and sporidia different. 
