88 PLANTS FROM NEW CALEDONIA. 
FUNGI. 
By Erse M. WAKEFIELD, F.L.S. 
Tar fungi of New Caledonia have not been very extensively collected. 
Previous lists have been made by Patouillard, who in 1887 enumerated 64 
species which he found in the Museum at Paris, collected by Vieillard- 
Paneher. In 1902 a collection of 84 species was sent to Paris from the 
Museum at Nouméa, by Bernier, and between 1907 and 1911, various 
interesting species were collected by M. Le Rat, and recorded in the Bull. 
Soc. Mye. de France. In 1911-12, Sarasin and Roux made a large and 
fairly representative collection of fungi, and between 90 and 100 species 
were named at Kew. Descriptions of the new species included in this col. 
lection were issued in 1916 (Vierteljahreschrift der Naturf. Ges. in Ziirich, 
Jahrg. 61), but owing to the war the full list was not published until 1920 
(Sarasin & Roux, Nova Caledonia, Botanik, vol. i. d. ii.). 
Prof. Compton’s collection adds a number of new records, including two 
new species. It bears out the conclusion arrived at from the Sarasin and 
Roux collection, that the affinities of the fungus-flora are chiefly with that 
of the tropics of the Old World. There are, however, links with South 
America, and there is also a distinct temperate element. 
In the following list, species marked with an asterisk (*) were ineluded in 
the collection made by Sarasin and Roux. Those marked + have been pre- 
viously recorded in literature from New Caledonia, 
Of the 33 species here named, therefore, nine are new records for the 
island, two of them being apparently hitherto undescribed. 
“F SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE Fr, Syst. Myc. i. 333. Ermitage Stream. 
Jan. 188. Cosmopolitan. 
PorvroRus purus Jungh. Præmissa in Flor. Crypt. Java, 1818, 62. 
Ignambi; 2000 ft. August. 1747. India, Malaya, Australia, Polynesia, 
Africa. 
t GANODERMA LUCIDUM (Leys.) Karst. in Rev. Myc. 1881, No. 9, p. 17. 
Parasitic on coconut, and said to cause considerable loss, The single 
specimen included in the collection is the sessile form. Cosmopolitan. 
Previously recorded as a parasite on coconut in Ceylon. The symptoms of 
the disease described for Ceylon are similar to those observed in New 
Caledonia. 
"TG. AUSTRALE (Fr.) Pat. in Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1889, 71. Ermitage 
Stream. Feb. 427. Cosmopolitan in the tropies. 
T Fomes xımosus (Berk.) Fr., Nov. Symb. 66. Nouméa ; common on old 
stumps and dying trees of Acacia spirorbis, woods of Port Despointes. 144, 
