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FETCH : 
his figure it is evident that this should be millimetres, not 
centimetres. 
124, — Hypocrea Bambusse B. & Br. 
This species was described by Berkeley and Broome in the 
Fungi of Ceylon, 999, as ‘‘ Placentiformis, fusca, granulata, 
ascis linearibus : sporiidiis filiformibus. On inflorescence of 
Bambusa.” In Michelia, I., p. 323, it was transferred to 
Hypocrella by Saccardo. The fungus has not been found 
recently in Ceylon, and the following description has been 
drawn up from the co-type in Herb. Peradeniya. 
The fungus is parasitic on some species of bamboo. Its 
stromata are situated at the apex of short lateral branches, and 
it appears probable that these owe their suppressed condition 
to the action of the fungus. Part of the fungus consists of a 
mass of hyphæ, which encloses the inner leaves of the terminal 
bud and forms a pseudostroma, hidden by the outer leaves. 
At the apex of this the external stroma is produced. 
The external stroma is black, hemispherical, plane beneath 
and somewhat flattened above, about 1 • 5 mm. diameter, rough 
with close-set conical ostiola, which project up to 0*1 mm. 
The perithecia are flask-shaped, usually close-set and some- 
times wedge-shaped owing to the lateral compression, 
regularly arranged round the periphery of the upper surface ; 
they are up to 0 * 6 mm. deep (including the neck) and 0 • 2 mm. 
diameter. The asci are about 400 [l long and 4-6 ^ diameter ; 
the spores are about as long as the ascus, and 1-1 '5 jjl diameter, 
apparently continuous. 
This species must now be placed in Balansia, though it is 
difficult to understand where recent revisions of the Balansia 
group have left the various genera, and what differences are 
relied upon to separate them. It will therefore stand, at 
least temporarily, as Balansia Bambusæ (B. & Br.) Petch. 
In Journal of Botany (1896), p. 152, Massee stated that 
Hypocrella axillaris Cooke, on Eragrostis, Queensland, is 
identical with Hypocrea Bamhusæ B. & Br. Cooke’s descrip- 
tion in Grevillea, XX., p. 4, is Stroma obturbinate, or 
obclavate, seated in the upper axils (5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. 
broad), black, opaque, minutely granular with the ostiola ; 
