E. M. WAKEFIELD: FUNGI. 89 
India, Polynesia, Tropical Africa, Mascarene Islands, South Africa, North 
America, West Indies. 
*t POLYSTICTUS xANTHOPUS Fr., Nov. Symb. 74. Ermitage Stream. Jan. 
233. Mont Canala. June. 1354. Tropics of Old World. 
*t P. FLABELLIFORMIS (KL) Fr., Symb. Myc. 74. Mont Canala. June. 
1355. Ignambi; 2000 ft. August. 1748. In the gathering No. 1748, 
some of the larger specimens have an almost perfectly smooth, very dark- 
coloured, indistinetiy zoned pileus. These agree exactly with Philippine 
specimens distributed under the name P. microloma Lév. P. mieroloma is 
probably only a form of P. flabelliformis. Tropics of Old World. 
*t P. sANGUINEUS Fr., Nov. Symb. 75. “Common in the whole of the 
Nouméa district and elsewhere.’ 234. Cosmopolitan in tropical and sub- 
tropical regions. 
* LasoniA caspirosA Berk. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xiv. (1873) 58 
( Favolus cespitosus Berk. in op. cit. xiii. 107). Ermitage stream ; on dead 
wood. Jan. 192. Ceylon, Malaya, Australia, Polynesia. Probably widely 
spread in the East. 
The original deseription of this species was very scant and in some 
respects misleading. The present collection and gatherings made in 1911-12 
in New Caledonia by Sarasin and Roux, all of which were preserved in fluid, 
show that when young and fresh the pileus is nearly always more or less 
pointed at the apex, sometimes even sharply umbonate. The same character 
is also seen in the original drawings of the Ceylon specimens (Thwaites, 182), 
which Berkeley referred as “ L. ewspitosa, var." Older specimens may 
become more flattened, but there is usually a trace of an umbo. An 
amended description was given by Hennings in Hedwigia, xlii. 1903, p. 76, 
but his spore measurements are slightly too small. In all the specimens 
examined by me, including the type from Australia, the spores are broadly 
elliptical, or sometimes slightly pip-shaped, hyaline, 6-8 x 4°5-5 y. 
Favolus albidus Massee differs only in the whitish pileus. Polyporus 
mycenoides Pat. from the description appears to be distinct. It is said to be 
phosphorescent, and this character has not been noted for any of the speci- 
mens of L. cespitosa received at Kew. 
*+ STEREUM CAPERATCM (Berk. & Mont.) (Thelephora lamellata Berk. & 
Curt.) Ignambi; on dead logs in forest, 2000 ft. August. 1749. 
Malaya, Australia, Polynesia, South America, West Indies, Southern United 
States. 
