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177.— Coniophora Broomeiana Mass. 
The type in Herb. Kew is Thwaites’s 256. It is an 
immature Hypoxylon, of the same type as Sphæria albofulta 
B. & Br. 
178. — Sphærella Chionanthi (B. & Br.) Cooke. 
Sphæria (Ohtumtæ) Chionanthi was described by Berkeley 
and Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, 1114, as “ Peritheciis minutis 
epidermide hyalina tectis ; sporidiis uniseptatis ; spermatiis 
aculearibus (518). On Chionanthus zeylanica, Dambool, 
March, 1868. Forming little yellow patches consisting partly 
of the minute perithecia, partly of the larger bodies containing 
the spermatia ; sporidia 20 X 7*5 spermatia 12*5-20 ^ 
long.” In Saccardo, I., p. 549, it was listed as Didymella 
Chionanthi (B. & Br.) Sacc. ; while Cooke, in Jour. Bot., 1883, 
p. 107, transferred it to Sphærella, stating that the asci were 
cylindrico-clavate and the spores fusiform, one-septate, 
18 X 5 
The type in Herb. Kew is labelled “ on Chionanthus zeyla- 
nica'' a plant now known as Linociera purpurea Vahl. But 
the co-type in Herb. Peradeniya is labelled “ Thw. 518. 
Dambool. Memecylon umbellatum." The two specimens are 
identical, both as regards host plant and fungus, and from 
specimens recently collected there is no doubt that the plant 
is Memecylon umbellatum. 
On the upper surface of infected leaves the fungus causes 
pale yellow, somewhat diffuse spots, with a broad yellow-green 
margin. On the lower surface the spots are bright orange - 
yellow and circular, and bear orange-red, pulvinate, sub- 
translucent swellings, the pycnidia, or minute, dark red, 
circular points, the ostiola of the perithecia, either separately 
or intermixed. 
The pycnidia are lenticular, subepidermal, raising the 
epidermis in minute blisters, either oval or circular, up to 
0*6 mm. broad and 1*2 mm. long. The overlying epidermis 
is orange-red, not hyaline. The pycnidium is about 0 * 5-1 mm. 
thick, with an orange -yellow basal layer. The pyc nospores 
are linear, straight or curved, 11-18 X 1-2 [k. 
