CEYLON FUNGI. 
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Chætospermum gelatinosum n. sp. 
Sporodochia subgelatinous, cylindric, up to 0*6 mm. high, 
0*4 mm. diameter, base immersed ; outer layers composed of 
parallel hyphæ, 3 ^ diameter, which become gelatinous : 
basidia simple, 30 ^ high, 3 ^ diameter, conidia terminal ; 
paraphyses up to 80 ^ long, 2 diameter, shghtly thickened 
at the apex ; conidia oval, inequilateral, hyaline, contents 
granular, 36-44 x 16-21 pi, wall 1*5 (jl thick, with a tuft of 
6 to 12 filaments, up to 80 ^ long, 1 [jl diameter, at each end, 
and short filaments up to 10 ^ long, or capitate appendages 
up to 4 ^ long, along the more convex side of the conidium. 
On dead twigs, Hakgala, September, 1908 ; No. 3004 in 
Herb. Peradeniya. 
Sporodochiis subgeiatinosis cylindraceis, ad 0*6 mm. alt., 
0*4 mm. diam., basi immersis, exteriore h5rphis parallelis, 
3 ^ diam., tandem gelatinosis, instructis ; basidiis simplicibus, 
30 ^ alt., 3 lÀ diam., conidiis apicalibus ; paraphysibus 
ad 80 ^ long., 2 ^ diam., sursum subincrassatis ; conidiis 
ovalibus, inequilateralibus, hyahnis, plasmate granuloso, 
36-44 X 16-21 pariete 1’5 [l crasso, utroque apice 
filamentis 6-12, ad 80 ^ long., 1 ^ diam., convexo latere 
filamentis brevibus ad 10 ^ long., vel capitatis ad 4 ^ long., 
or n at is. 
Tuberculina persicina (Ditm.) Sacc. 
On Ipomæa hiloha Forsk., Bentota, April, 1909. 
Patellina rosea n. sp. 
Sporodochia circular or orbicular, often sinuous, up to 1 mm. 
diameter, frequently clustered ; excipulum white, tomentose 
at the margin ; conidia, in mass, red when moist, then pink, 
hyaline when mounted, oval, slightly apiculate, 4-5 X 2*5^; 
conidiophores about 35 x 2 On bark of dead Castilloa sp., 
Henaratgoda, December, 1911 ; No. 3264 in Herb. Peradeniya. 
Also on dead Hevea hmsiliensis, Peradeniya, July, 1916. 
Sporodochiis rotundatis vel orbicularibus, interdum sinuosis, 
ad 1 mm. diam., sæpe congregatis ; excipulo albo, margine 
tomentoso ; conidiis hyalinis, coacervatis rubris, ovalibus, 
subapiculatis, 4-5 x 2*5 jjl; conidiophoris circa 35 X 2 
