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Parasitic Fungi on Hevea Braziliensis. 
In the Notizblatt des Konigl. Botanische Gartens und Museums 
zu Berlin, (Vol. 4, No. 34, p. 133) is a paper by P. HENNINGS on 
fungi parasitic on Heveas. He describes and figures fine leaf- 
fungi, viz., Phyllachora Hubert , Dothuiella Ulet , Aposphceria Ulet , 
Ophiobolus Heveee and Parodiella Melioloides , All have only as 
yet been found in the Amazonas district of Brazil, but do not seem 
to be very serious, though the Ophiobolus quite destroys the leaf 
and is perhaps the most dangerous of them. 
A. Meliola probably M . Amphitricha , Fr. also occurs with the 
Phyllachora and is very destructive. 
On sick and rotten trees of various species of Hevea Allesche- 
riella uredinoides was found. 
Professor ZIMMERMAN* has found in the Culture Garden at 
Buitenzorg Carticmm javanicum , Zimin, which also grows on 
Castilloa and other cultivated plants, and Ned via coffeicola and on 
the leaves, Phyllosticta Hevea and Glaeosporium Elastic x, a known 
parasite on Ficus elastica. Stilbum Hevea occurs on dying twigs. 
Though none of these fungi are stated to do serious damage as 
yet, it would be as well for cultivators to keep an eye on any spots 
or signs of fungi appearing on the leaves or twigs. Attacks from 
leaf-fungi would be much more difficult to deal with in the case if 
a lofty tree like Para rubber than with a short accessible plant like 
Coffee, and all know the damage done to the latter plant by 
Hemileia. 
The Ceylon canker is reported from the Malay States, but I 
have not seen it. 
A planter in Sandakan sends me a specimen of a fungus which 
appears to be most pernicious. He writes “ My attention was 
attracted by a tree which appears to have been white washed. Th< 
colouring commenced about eight feet from the ground and ex- 
tended upwards for about six feet, taking the branches in that space 
from I to 2 feet. The first branches affected were dead and as red 
as you see by pieces sent, the other affected branches were dying. 
All over the affected part the rubber was streaming in long 
tears. It is apparently purely local. A two stemmed tree was 
affected in one stem only. There are four trees attacked in this 
way. 
The bark sent was densely covered with a fine mycelium run- 
ning between the bark ridges, and these latter were covered with a 
salmon pink mass apparently of felted mycelium. I can see no 
fruit on the plant. I have seen a somewhat similar fungus, on 
stems of Ramie, and Strobilanthes when grown too close together 
and very damp. The fungus had grown over the small mosses 
and hepatus on the bark, which was quite dead and the wood be- 
neath was dead and bored by wood beetles. • 
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