CEYLON FUNGI. 
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In the part of Thwaites’s 302 in Herb. Peradeniya the peri- 
thecia are scattered, or confluent in small groups, immersed 
in the cortex and splitting off the outer layers ; they are about 
1 mm. diameter, black, depresso-convex, with a flat base, 
about 0*5 mm. high, sparingly clothed at first with purple- 
brown mycelium, becoming naked, minutely rugose. The 
ostiolum is papillate, or slightly cylindric, circular, broad. 
The upper wall of the perithecium is thick, but not carbona- 
ceous ; the base is thin. The asci are thick-walled, eight- 
spored, about 240 x 32 Numerous linear, branched 
paraphyses are present. The ascospores are brown, then 
opaque, subcymbiform or reniform, with rounded ends, one- 
septate, constricted at the septum, the upper cell frequently 
larger than the lower, 37-40 X 12-13 
I am unable to refer to Montagne ’s figure. The spores 
agree fairly well with Currey’s figure in Trans. Linn. Soc.^ 
XXII. (1858), tab. 49, fig. 192. 
208. — Leptosphæria nesodes (B. & Br.) Sacc. 
Described by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of Ceylon, 
1121, as “ Sphseria {Depazea) nesodes B. & Br. Peritheciis 
minutissimis, in maculas pallidas congestis, fuscis ; sporidiis 
fusiformibus curvulis triseptatis. On leaves of Hydrocotyle 
asiatica, Peradeniya, January, 1868. Sporidia ’0005 (inches) 
long.” It was listed as Leptosphæria in Saccardo, II., p. 85. 
Berlese (leones Fungorum, I., p. 88) stated that the specimens 
were not well developed, but were rather Metasphæria. This 
opinion is supported by recently collected specimens, identical 
with the CO -type in Herb. Peradeniya. The species will 
therefore stand as Metasphæria nesodes (B. & Br.). 
The perithecia are crowded on the under surface of brown» 
or blackish-brown, spots ; they are globose, black, immersed^ 
prominent, about 0*75 mm. diameter. The asci are broadly 
clavate, very shortly pedicellate, thick-walled at first, about 
40 X 10 [A. The ascospores are narrow subcymbiform, 
hyaline, ultimately three -septate, 15-20 x 3-4 [k. The 
majority of the spores in the available specimens are uni- 
septate, the other two septa apparently being formed much 
