230 
FETCH : 
mm. high ; stalk orange-yellow, 40 ^ diameter below, tapering 
upwards, rather loosely built, often arising from a tuft of 
suberect yellow hyphæ, sometimes Isarioid ; head globose, 
hyaline, up to 100 pi diameter ; conidiophores penicillioid ; 
conidia subglobose, hyahne, 2*5 diameter. 
On a Poria, Peradeniya, December, 1916 ; No. 4938 in 
Herb. Peradeniya. Also on Tricliia hotrytis, Hakgala. 
Subiculo albo, tenui ; peritheciis confertis, aurantiacis, 
globosis, 150-200 ^ diam., hyphis flavis radiantibus vestitis, 
ostiolo papillato fusco-rubro. Ascis octosporis, sporis 
uniseriatis, ad 70 x 4 pi. Sporis viridi-hyahnis, ovahbus, 
interdum attenuatis, uniseptatis, leniter constrictis, obtusis, 
minutissime v^errucosis, 6-8 x 2 * 5-3 [jl. Statu conidiophoro 
stilboideo, ad 1*2 mm. alt.; stipite aurantiaco, basi 40 ^ 
diam., sursum attenuato, laxo ; capitulo globoso, ad 100 ^ 
diam. ; conidiophoris penicillioideis ; conidiis subglobosis 
hyalinis, 2 * 5 [x diam. 
Podocrea zeylanica n. sp. 
Stromata clustered, simple, clavate, or cyHndric, sometimes 
compressed, apex often irregularly lobed, up to 3 cm. high, 
4 mm. diameter, rufous or pale brown, ostiola darker, palhd 
towards the base, glabrous. Perithecia crowded, up to 0*25 
mm. diameter ; asci 60-80 X 3-4 cylindric, eight-, then 
sixteen-spored ; part-spores white in mass, greenish hyahne 
when mounted, globose, 3-4 diameter, or oval, 3*5 x 2*5 
faintly warted. On decaying stumps, Peradeniya, July, 1912, 
&c. ; No. 4573 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Stromatibus fasciculatis, simplicibus, clavatis, vel 
cyhndraceis, interdum compressis, supra sæpe lobatis, ad 
3 cm. alt., 4 mm. diam., ruiis vel paUide brunneis, ostiolis 
saturatioribus, basi pallescentibus, glabris. Peritheciis 
confertis, ad 0*25 mm. diam. ; ascis 60-80 x 3-4 [x, cylindra- 
ceis, octo- dein sexdecim-sporis ; sporis viridi-hyalinibus, 
globosis, 3-4 diam., vel ovalibus, 3*5 x 2*5 jx, leniter verru- 
cosis. 
Cordyceps coccinea Penz. & Sacc. 
Hakgala, October, 1914. 
