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FETCH : 
are pale yellow, minutely warted (almost smooth), spherical, 
3-4 ^ diameter (from herbarium specimens). It differs from 
Sterigmatocystis monilifera in the stouter stalk and head, and 
the shorter ramuli. Berkeley and Broome state that the 
stalk is granulated, but those of the specimens examined were 
perfectly smooth. Their reference to the conidia as elliptical 
is probably based on those of a parasitic mould which overruns 
the specimens. There may be some doubt whether the 
differences are constant, but for the present this species may 
be known as Sterigmatocystis flavida (B. & Br.). 
Pénicillium flavovirens Cooke & Mass, is a Pénicillium. 
137. — Bactridium ciavatum B. & Br. 
This was described in Fungi of Ceylon, 807, as “ Melleum, 
pulvinulatum, sporis clavatis 4-septatis, articulo medio majore 
(240). On dead wood, Nuwara Eliya. Spores when mature 
*008 (inch.) long.” From the herbarium specimens, and 
others recently collected at Hakgala, there seems to be no 
doubt that this is identical with Arthrosporium chrysocc'phalum 
Penz. & Sacc., leones Fungorum Javanicorum, p. 109. Penzig 
and Saccardo describe their species as “ Sparsum v. laxe 
gregarium, carnulosum, crassiusculum, 2 mm. alt. ; stipite 
tereti-conico, erecto, candido, ex hyphis dense intricatis 
formate, extus (ob cellulas exertas) minute asperulo, basi 
0"7 mm. cr. ; capitule sphærico, 1 mm. diam., aureo ; 
conidiis maximis, clavatis, apice rotundatis, basi acutatis, 
7-8-septatis, ad septa non constrictis, 25Q-275 X 40-44 
flavis, utrinque subhyalinis, ex apice hypharum in vertice 
stipitis constipatarum oriundis.” 
Penzig and Saccardo’s description fits the Ceylon fungus 
exactly. In specimens recently collected the conidia were 
obclavate, 4-9-septate, 150-240 X 30-36 The conidia 
form a globose head, in a continuous waxy mass, as in 
Fusarium, not pulverulent or with distinct radiating conidia 
as shown in Penzig and Saccardo’s figure (which is named 
Arthropodium) . As these authors state, it is a stalked 
Bactridium, not an Arthrosporium, and their suggested new 
generic name Podohactridium may well be adopted. The 
species will then stand as Podohactridium ciavatum (B. & Br.). 
