269 : LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. Amr. 
ve below, hard and rigid, 3 x 4-7 x 0.5-1 em.; surface thinly 
enerusted, finely puberulent, conspicuously radiate-rugose, many 
times suleate, marked with narrow, avellaneous, lines and 
broad, fuliginous or black zones; margin thick, truncate, zo- 
nate, crumpled or rugose, concolorous: context avellaneous, 
punky-corky, homogeneous, 2-4 mm. thick: tubes 3-7 mm. 
long, slender, avellaneous within, mouths regular, circular, 
constricted, 5-6 to a mm., nearly white to smoky-black, 
reddish-brown when bruised, edges thick, obtuse, entire: spores 
subglobose, very pale brown, finely echinulate, thick-walled,’ 
5-6 u: hyphae subhyaline, 3-5 u, cystidia none: stipe laterally- 
attached, ascending, cylindrical, subequal, 3-12 em. long, 0.7-1.3 
em. thick, resembling the pileus in surface and substance. 
Type collected at Palo, Leyte, on dead stumps, January, 
1906, by A. D. E. Elmer, no. 7210. Also collected on Mt. 
Mariveles, Luzon, November, 1904, by Elmer, no. 6960. 
Elfvingia elmeri Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 476, 1907.— 
Pileus very large, compressed-ungulate, convex above, slightly 
concave below, sessile, dimidiate, very hard, 20 x 25-35 x 4-7 
em.; surface glabrous, deeply sulcate, tuberculose, horny-en- 
crusted, becoming slightly rimose when old and dry, but 
never weathering, brown with a grayish tinge; margin thick, 
rounded, ferruginous, entire: context ferruginous to fulvous, 
punky-corky, rather firm, 1-2 em. thick; tubes distinetly 
stratified, 1-2 mm. long eaeh season, fulvous within, mouths 
circular, regular, 5 to a mm., edges rather thin, entire: 
spores ferruginous, globose, smooth, 5-6 u; hyphae ferruginous, 
3-4 u; eystidia ventricose, fulvous, sharp-pointed, copious, 
15-40 u long. 
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Type collected on Mt. Mariveles, Luzon, on dead 
wood, November, 1904, by A. D. E. Elmer, no. 6961. 
Elfvingia tornata (Pers.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 
301. 1903. Polyporus tornatus Pers.; Gaud. Voy. Freye. Bot. 
173. 1826. (Type from islands in the Pacifie ocean.) Polyporus 
australis Fr. Elench. 108. 1828. (Type from islands in the 
Pacific ocean.) 
Luzon: Mt. Mariveles, Elmer 6916. Leyte: Palo, . Elmer 
7209. 
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