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tim contexta, hypostromate sub epidermide bene evoluto, per 
stomata erumpente et stromata ascigera formante, strato basali 
tenui. Loculi discreti, haud ostiolati, strato obtegente tandem 
poro rotundo disrumpente. Asci elliptici, sessiles, copiose para- 
physati, octospori. Sporidia didyma, fusca. 
PALAWAN I A GRANDiS (Niessl.) Syd. comb. nov. (Fig. 3.) 
Microthyrium grande Niessl. in Rebenh. Fg. eur. no. 2467. 
Seynesia grandis Wint. in Hedwigia (1886) 107. 
Seynesia calamicola P. Henn. et E. Nym. in Warb. Monsunia (1899) 160. 
Palawan, Taytay, Merrill 8789, 8757, 879U, April, 1913. All on dead 
petioles and rachis of Calamus; Merrill 8808, on dead leaf-rachis of Oncos- 
perma horrida; Merrill, 8872, on dead Flagellaria indica; Merrill 88^7, on 
dead stems of Drynaria quercifolia. 
We have compared the Palawan specimens with the types of Microthy- 
Fig. 4. Palawania cocoes Syd. a, Longitudinal section through a part of the superficial ascus- 
bearing stroma, showing one loculus (X 250) ; b, margin of the stroma seen from 
above (X 250) ; c, ascus with paraphyses (X 275) ; d, sporidium (X 450). 
rium grande and Seynesia calamicola, and have found that all these repre- 
sent the same fungus. Theissen, to whom we are much indebted for the 
accompanying figure of this fungus, drawn after the Palawan specimen on 
Calamus, has taken up the fungus as a doubtful Seynesia in Oesterr. Bot. 
Zeitschr. (1912) 23 extr., but because of the poor specimen seen by him at 
that time. Palawania grandis is nearly related to the following P. cocoes, 
but differs in its external appearance, and the somewhat longer and less 
septate (articles 8-15 u long) hyphae. 
The specimens growing on Calamus must be considered as typical. The 
forms growing on the other hosts mentioned seem not to differ. 
PALAWANIA COCOES Syd. sp. nov. (Fig. 4.) 
Stromatibus ascigeris tota longitudine matrici adnatis, super- 
ficialibus, minoribus rotundatis vel oblongis et 0.3-1 mm longis, 
saepe plus minus confluentibus et tunc multo majoribus, usque 8 
