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FETCH : 
205. — Xylaria carpophila Fr. 
This species was recorded for Ceylon by Berkeley and 
Broome from Thwaites’s 615 on the seeds of Goniothalamus 
HooTceri and on seeds of Diospyros Ebenum. The clavæ on 
Goniothalamus Hooheri are about 1 mm. in diameter, with a 
minute central core and a loose peripheral zone ; they turn 
vivid purple with caustic potash, have long oval spores up to 
8x4^, and bear the typical basidia of Penicilliopsis. They 
are indistinguishable from Penicilliopsis clavariæformis, but 
are conidial only. As the latter species is recorded for Dios- 
pyros only, this conidial form may be a different species. The 
specimen of “ Xylaria carpophila ” on Diospyros is also 
Penicilliopsis. 
206. — Eutypa penes (B. & Br.) Sacc. 
This was described in Fungi of Ceylon, 1112, as “ Sphæria 
(Obvallatæ) penes B. & Br. Cortici immersa ; ostiolis minimis 
congestis, tandem emergentibus ; ascis clavatis ; sporidiis 
minimis allantoideis. On bark, which seems at' first merely 
sprinkled with black spots.” In Saccardo, I., p. 179, it was 
listed as Eutypa. Berlese (leones Fungorum, III., p. 51) 
suggested that it might be Eutypella. 
The ostiola are cylindric or subclavate, up to 0*5 mm. long 
and 0 • 1 mm. diameter. They burst through the epidermis in 
linear, oval, or circular clusters, up to 0*4 mm. long. The 
perithecia lie side by side beneath the epidermis ; they are 
not united into a stroma, nor is there any black boundary line 
in the cortex ; they are irregularly ovoid or globose, distorted 
by mutual pressure, about 0*25 mm. diameter, thin -walled, 
not carbonaceous. The asci are eight-spored, 12-16 X 4-5 
with obliquely uniseriate spores. The spores are hyaline, 
subcylindric, ends obtuse, slightly curved, 4-5 X 1*5 
This species appears to be a Calosphæria, and will stand as 
Calosphæria penes (B. & Br.). 
207. — Amphisphæria megalospora (Mont.) Sacc. 
This species was recorded for Ceylon by Berkeley and Broome 
from Thw. 302. They described the spores as “ brown, very 
obtuse, equal or larger above, uniseptate, *002 inches long.” 
