380 
HANDBOOK OF 
Genus 27. STEMPHYLIUM. Wallr. 
Ilyphaj decumbent, intricately branched, hyaline, or sooty 
brown. Conidia apical on the branches, ovoid, or subglobose, 2 to 
many-septate and muriform, sooty brown. 
1977. Stemphylium pulchrum. B. Sacc. Syll. 2187.= 
Mystrosporium pulchrum. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1845, 70. 
Effused, olive ; threads white, rugose, furcate, or trifid ; others 
are thin and fertile ; conidia oblong, many-septate, and clathrate, 
a little rough, blackish. 
On rotten wood. W. Australia. (Fig. 320.) 
Genus 28. MACROSPORIUM. Fries. 
Hypha; somewhat fasciculate, rather soft, erect, or ascending, 
nearly simple, or branched, coloured, bearing at or about the apex 
oblong or clavate conidia, which are divided in both directions in a 
muriform manner. 
1978. Macrosporium cladosporioides. Desm. PI. Crypt . 
1857, p. 3. Sacc. Syll. 2501. 
Spots large, tawny, irregular ; tufts numerous, minute, rounded, 
dark olive, velvety ; threads erect, simple, nodulose, septate, semi- 
hyaline, fasciculately joined, 150-200 x 5 /i. Conidia rather 
pellucid, at some time torulose, unequal, 2-3 or up to 10-septate, 
ovoid, oblong, or elongated, or club-shaped, and attenuated below 
into a pedicel, 15-75 p long. 
On leaves and stems of herbs. Victoria. 
1979. Macrosporium commune. Rabh. Fun. Eur. 1360, 
Sacc. Syll. 2499. 
Tufts densely gregarious, numerous, brown; hyphaa fasciculate, 
almost simple, ascending, septate, not constricted, brown (80-90 x 
4-6 p ) ; conidia variable in form and size, obovate-oblong, clavate, 
3-5 septate, with transverse septa-olive (18-28 X 9-12 p). Epispore 
sparingly granular. 
On stems, leaves, etc. Queensland. 
1980. Macrosporium camellia. Cke. <$• Mass. Grev. xvn., 
42. 
Epiphyllous, spots orbicular or confluent, pallid, with a broad, 
brown margin (1 c.m. or more), threads tufted, septate (30-40 p 
long), simple, pale olive. Conidia clavate, triseptate, then multi- 
septate and muriform (50-60 x 15-25 p), attenuated below into a 
slender pedicel, pale olive. 
On living leaves of Camellia. Victoria. 
1980 bis. Macrosporium tomato. Cke. in Rav. Ex. 603, 
Grev. xii., 32. Sacc. Syll. 2552. 
Orbicular, black; threads short, robust, flexuose, septate; 
conidia clavate, a little attenuated upwards, scarcely stipitate, 
muriformly septate, brown (100-120x20-22 u). 
On living tomato fruit. Queensland. (Fig. 321.) 
