Parr 2, 1908] POLYPORACEAE 77 
young, 7-8 to a mm., edges very thin, entire or slightly toothed, purplish-umbrinons: 
spores smooth, hyaline. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
HABITAT: Dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
9. Coriolopsis nigrocinerea Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus attached by a scutate disc or small tubercle, dimidiate to circular, subimbricate, 
thin, coriaceows, 2-3 X 3-5 X 0.2-0.5 cm.; surface hispid, tomentose, zonate, concentrically 
striate, fuliginous to pure-black; margin pallid, thin, entire to undulate, velvety: context 
membranous, fibrous, umbrinous to fuliginous, 1-2 mm. thick; tubes short, 1-2 mm. long, 
chalk-white within, mouths circular to angular, becoming more or less irregular and uneven, 
about 3 to a mm., edges avellaneous to cinereous, firm, subentire, rather thin: spores 
smooth, hyaline. 
Type collected on the top of El Yunque, Cuba, on an old pole, March, 1903, ZL. 2%. Underwood 
& F.S. Earle 1234. 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
10. Coriolopsis caperata (Berk.) Murrill. 
Polyporus caperatus Berk. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 3: 391. 1839. 
Trametes dibapha Berk. Vidensk. Meddel. 1879-80: 32. 1879. (Type from Brazil.) 
Pileus thin, coriaceous, flexible, dimidiate to flabelliform, sessile, narrowly attached, 
often laterally connate and subimbricate, sometimes decurrent, 4-7 * 5-8 X 0.2-0.3 cm.; 
surface conspicuously tomentose, becoming aculeate, zonate, especially with age, uneven, 
isabelline to umbrinous, with bay or blackish zones ; margin thin, undulate to lobed, sterile, 
almost white: context thin, punky above, corky below, umbrinous-chestnut, 2-4 mm. 
thick ; tubes short, avellaneous within, 1-2.5 mm. long, mouths circular to subangular, 
regular, even, 3-4 toa mm., edges rather thick, firm, entire, pale-isabelline or grayish- 
avellaneous to pale-umbrinous : spores 8-10 * 3-4 «; hyphae 3 #. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Mauritius. 
Hasitat: Dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: West Indies and Central America ; also in South Americaand tropical regions 
of Africa and Asia. 
11. Coriolopsis subglabrescens Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus slightly flexible to rigid, sometimes reviving for several seasons and presenting 
the appearance of a very thin Pyropolyporus, dimidiate to reniform, narrowly attached, 
decurrent, usually applanate, 4-6 X 7-12 X 0.4-1 cm.; surface tomentose, sulcate, umbri- 
nous to bay or blackish, becoming glabrous and bay-black; margin pallid, entire, acute: 
context thin, corky, purplish-umbrinous, 2-3 mm. thick, becoming indurate and blackish- 
encrusted above with age; tubes grayish-umbrinous, often stratose, especially behind, 2-4 
mm, long, mouths circular, minute, regular, 5-6 to a mm., edges thick, entire, firm, avel- 
laneous-isabelline to pale-umbrinous : spores smooth, hyaline. 
Type collected on Pine Hill, Cuba, on a small dead stub, March, 1903, ZL. MW. Underwood & F. 
S. Harle 1329, ; 
DISTRIBUTION : Cuba, Porto Rico, and Jamaica. 
DoUBTFUL SPECTES 
Polyporus Swartzianus V,év. Ann, Sci. Nat. ITT. 5: 132. 1846. Described from 
Swartz’s Jamaican collections. Type not found. 
Polystictus corrugis Fries, Nov. Symb. 82. 1851. Collected by Benson on trunks of’ 
trees in the West Indies. 
Polystictus cascus Fries, Nov. Symb. 88. 1851. Described from Oersted’s collections 
in Costa Rica. Type specimen not found. 
Polystictus comatus Fries, Nov. Symb. 91. 1851. Described from specimens collected 
on trunks at San José, Costa Rica, by Oersted. Type specimen not found. 
