CEYLON FUNGI. 
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Brachysporium torulosum Syd. 
On plantain leaves, Peradeniya, June, 1916. 
Sporodesmium striatum n. sp. 
Spores black in mass, in cracks in the cortex, forming heaps 
up to 0*8 mm. long, 0’3 mm. broad. Spores oval, rounded 
at either end or attenuated below, blackish olivaceous, clathro- 
septate, sometimes with one to three stronger, more or less 
straight, transverse septa, closely covered with raised longi- 
tudinal wavy and anastomosing dark ridges, 30-62 X 26-32 (j. ; 
conidiophore short, hyaline. 
On dead branches of Hevea hrasiliensis Muell-Arg., Pera- 
deniya, February, 1917 ; No. 4971 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Conidiis coacervatis nigris, acervulos ad 0*8 mm. long., 
0’3 mm. lat. in rimis corticis efformantibus ; conidiophoris 
hyalinis, brevibus ; conidiis ovalibus, utrinque rotundatis, vel 
deorsum attenuatis, nigro-olivaceis, clathro-septatis, interdum 
septis 1-3 transversis crassis plus minus rectis, lineis elevatis 
fuscis flexuosis longitudinalibus anastomosantibus dense 
ornatis, 30-62 x 26-32 |jl. 
Macrosporium hurculeum E. & M. 
On horseradish, Hakgala, April, 1915. 
Cercospora Averrhoæ n. sp. 
Spots white, with a purple-red margin, circular, up to 4 mm. 
diameter, acervuli amphigenous ; conidiophores clustered, 
fuliginous, up to 120 ^ high, 5 ^ diameter, equal, inflated at the 
base ; conidia hyaline, multiseptate, straight, or rarely curved, 
base truncate, up to 150 ^ long, 4 ^ diameter below, tapering 
to the apex. 
On living leaves of Averrhoa Carambola L., which soon fall ; 
Peradeniya, March, 1917 ; No. 4997 in Herb., Peradeniya. 
Maculis albis, margine purpureo-rubris, rotundatis, ad 4 mm. 
diam. ; acervulis amphigenis ; conidiophoris fasciculatis, 
fuligineis, ad 120 alt., 5 [x diam., æqualibus, basi inflatis ; 
- conidiis hyalinis, multiseptatis, rectis, raro curvis, basi 
truncatis, ad 150 (x long., basi 4 ^ diam., regulariter sursum 
attenuatis. 
