JANUARY 14, 1908] A COLLECTION OF PHILIPPINE PoLvPORES 
minute, regular, circular to angular, 9-11 to a mm., fulvous 
to umbrinous bay when  bruised, stuffed with flavous to 
luteous mycelium when very young, edges thin, entire: spores 
subglobose, smooth, pale-ferruginous, copious, 2 u: hyphae 
pile-ferruginous, 3-4 u; cystidia none. 
Type collected on Mt. Mariveles, Luzon, on dead wood, 
November, 1904, by A. D. E. Elmer, no. 6942. 
Nigroporus vinosus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 361. 
1905. (Type from San Domingo.) 
Leyte: Palo, Elmer 7212. 
Polyporus coracinus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 471. 
1907.—Pileus suborbieular to reniform, attached by a short 
lateral tubercle, thin, fleshy-tough, conchate, 3-4 — 4-5 x 0.2 
cem., surface yellowish-white, finely tomentose, becoming glabrous 
and black; margin thin, entire, concolorous: context less than 
1 mm. thick, homogeneous and white to pallid, except the 
very thin black cuticle; tubes 1.5 mm. long, white to 
avellaneous within, mouths circular, regular, 4 to «a 
mm., pallid to black, edges very obtuse, entire: spores 
 8Subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 2.5-3.5 u; hyphae 3 u; cystidia 
dark-fulvous, short, ventrieose, sharp-pointed, 10-25 w, often 
branched or caespitose. 
Type collected at Palo, Leyte, on dead sticks, January, 
1906, by A. D. E. Elmer, no. 7232. 
Polyporus palensis Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 472. 
1907. —Pileus flabelliform, tapering behind, shallowly depressed 
to infundibuliform, 2-3 x:2-3 x 0.1 em.; surface white to fulv- 
ous, finely radiate-striate, glabrous, margin very thin, entire 
to undulate or lacerate,inflexed on drying: context very thin, 
fleshy, white, fragile when dry; tubes decurrent, less than 1 
mm. long, white or slightly flesh-colored within, mouths min- 
ute, white to dull-fulvous, fragile when dry, somewhat radially 
elongated, 0.5 x 0.25 mm., edges lacerate-dentate, becoming 
almost irpiciform in appearance: spores oblong-ellipsoid, 
smooth, hyaline, 3-4 x 5-6 u; hyphae smooth, hyaline, 3-4 u; 
eystidia none: stipe lateral, rarely eccentric, short, tapering 
below, white, terete, striate above, covered with tubes below 
at the base, 3 mm, long, 2 mm. thick. 
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