xiii, c, 4 Yates: Fungi from British North Borneo 235 
This is one of the commonest species of the lower fungi in the Philip- 
pines and apparently is also abundant in Borneo. It is a saprophyte and 
occurs in all sorts of dead wood. It has also been collected in the Philip- 
pines on dead branches of Hevea brasiliensis. 
PERISPORIACEAE 
MELIOLA Fries 
MELIOLA PTEROCARPIAE sp. nov. 
Maculis epiphyllis, subpelliculosis, atris, orbicularibus vel 
suborbicularibus, 2 ad 6 mm diametro, vel confluentibus et mag- 
nam parten folium occupante, mycelio tenuissimo, ex hyphis 
parce ramosis brunneis 6 ad 8 p, crassis composito; ramis ple- 
rumque oppositis; hyphopodiis capitatis numerosis, alternanti- 
bus, cellula superiore ovata, 11 ad 13 X 19 ad 12 p, cellula 
inferiore 5 p longa ; hyphopodiis mucronatis paucissimis, ampulli- 
formibus, usque ad 18 p longis; setis mycelicis validis, rectis, 
erectis, atris, opacis, simplicibus, acutis, 200 p longis, 10 ad 12 
p crassis; peritheceis numerosis, globosis, atris, opacis, 125 ad 
140 p diametro ; ascis ovatis, bisporis, mox diffluentibus ; sporidiis 
cylindraceis, utrinque late rotundatis, 4-septatis, ad septa con- 
strictis, brunneis, 38 ad 40 X 12 ad 15 p. 
British North Borneo, Tenom, Yates 102, October 17, 1917, on leaves 
of Pterocarpus indicus. 
Parasitized by Spegazzinia and associated with Phaeodothiopsis ptero- 
carpae Yates. 
MELIOLA OTOPHORAE sp. nov. 
Maculas epiphyllas, atras, orbiculares vel suborbiculares, 2 ad 
5 mm diametro; mycelio abundante, ex hyphis rectis vel tortuo- 
sis brunneis 7 ad 8 p crassis composito; ramosis, ramis ple- 
rumque alternantibus ; hyphopodiis capitatis numerosis, cellula 
superiore oblonga vel subinde lobata, 10 ad 12 p longa, 6 ad 
10 p lata, cellula inferiore 5 ad 6 p longa; hyphopodiis mucro- 
natis paucissimis, ampulliformibus, usque ad 15 p longis, setis 
mycelicis erectis, rectis, obscure brunneis, 350 ad 450 p longis,. 
7 ad 8 p crassis, acutis; peritheceis numerosis, globosis, atris, 
opacis, 150 ad 200 p diametro; ascis ovoideis, 30 ad 35 X 18 ad 
20 p, bisporis; sporidiis 4-septatis, ad septa constrictis, cylin- 
draceis, utrinque obtusis, brunneis, 30 ad 32 p longis, 8 ad 12 
p latis. 
British North Borneo, Sapong, Yates 107, October 16, 1917, on the 
leaves of Otophora fructicosa. 
MELIOLA JASM I NICOLA P. Henn. in Hedwigia 34 (1895) 11. 
British North Borneo, Bangawan, Yates 91, October 10, 1917, on 
Jasminium sambac. 
