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1881. Sacidium camellise. Cke. <J- Mass. Grev. xvi., 3. 
Peritliecia scattered, superficial, dimidiate, black, opaque, variable 
in size, for the most part minute; sporules subglobose, continuous, 
pale tawny, 10 X 8 /a. 
On fading leaves of Camellia. Victoria. (Fig. 289.) 
Genus 31. MELOFHIA. Sacc. 
Peritliecia flattened, rather convex, dimidiate, rather soft, black 
or glaucous brown, at length corrugated, astomous or dehiscing 
irregularly ; sporules elongated, flexuous, continuous, hyaline. 
1882. Melophia Woodsiana. Sacc. <J- Deri. Sacc. Syll. 3512. 
Peritliecia remotely scattered, epiphyllous, inserted in a thin, 
white filamentose, spot-like subieulum, soon falling away, scutate, 
glaucous brown, m.m., texture thinly membranaceous, olive 
brown; sporules cylindrical, obtuse, 30-35 x 1|, narrowly convo- 
lute, or circular, or horse-shoe shape, multiguttnlate, hyaline. 
On phyllodes of Acacia liarpophylla. Queensland. 
1883. Melophia leptospermi. Cooke.=.%l elophia phylla- 
choroides. Cooke Grev. xix., 91. nec. Speg. 
Peritliecia scattered on both surfaces, convex, flattened at the 
base, and scutate, black (£-1 m.m. diam.), white within, even, 
smooth ; sporules thread-like, curved or flexuous, hyaline, 25 p long. 
On leaves of Leptospermum Icevigatum. Victoria. (Fig. 372.) 
Genus 32. LEPTOSTROMEELA. Sacc. 
Peritliecia covered, then subsuperficial, elongated, depressed, 
convex, rather carbonaceous, opening by a more or less manifest 
longitudinal crack; sporules rod-like or thread-like, hyaline. 
1884. Leptostromella eucalypti. Cke. cj- Mass. Grev. xix., 91. 
Spots suborbicular, on both surfaces, red brown, then fuliginous ; 
perithecia scattered over the spots, minute, subglobose, then elon- 
gated, black, dehiscing by an elongated fissure ; sporules thread- 
like, straight or flexuons, 20 p long. 
On fading leaves of Eucalyptus. Victoria. (Fig. 373.) 
Family IV. EXCIPULACEAI. Sacc. 
Perithecia cup-shaped, or saucer-shaped, or resembling Hys- 
terium, at first somewhat sphasroid, but soon broadly open, membra- 
naceous or carbonaceous, black, erumpent or superficial, smooth or 
hairy. 
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Genus 33. DINEMASPORIUM. Lev. 
Perithecia cup-shaped, superficial, black, furnished with rigid, 
brown bristles ; sporules oblong or sausage-shaped, continuous, 
hyaline, with a hair at each end ; basidia thread-like. 
1885. Dinemasporium hispidulum. Sclivad. Sacc. Syll. 
3619. 
Perithecia gregarious or scattered, rather large, cup-shaped, 
black, setae long, rigid, straight ; disc becoming glaucous ; sporules 
