JANUARY 14, 1908] A COLLECTION or PHILIPPINE POLYPORES Zi 
Fomes semitostus Berk. Jour. Bot. & Kew Mise. 6: 
142. 1854. (Type from Khasia Mountains India.) 
Luzon: Mt. Mariveles. Elmer 6050. Leyte: Palo, Elmer 7222. 
Ganoderma subtornatum Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 54: 
477. 1907.— Pileus sessile, short-stipitate Habelliform, with a 
narrow base, applanate, slightly concave below, hard and 
rigid, 6-11 x 6-12 x 1 em.; surface thinly encrusted, shining- 
black, except where covered with the brown conidia, glabrous, 
suleate, radiate-rugose; margin truncate, slightly furrowed, 
Sterile, entire: context 2-4 mm. thick, punky, white above, 
chestnut-colored below; tubes unstratified, slender, 5-8 mm. 
long, avellaneous-umbrinous within, mouths regular, circular, 
5 to a mm., smoky-fuliginous, edges obtuse, entire: spores 
ovoid, pale-brown, finely asperulate, 9 x 6-7 u; hyphae dark 
brown, 5-6 wu; cystidia none: stipe lateral, compressed, 0.2 
em. long. 1.5-2 em. thick, resembling the pileus in surface 
and substance, 
Type collected. on the Lamao River, Luzon, 100 m., on 
a decayed trunk, November, 1903, by R. S. Williams. Col- 
leeted also on Mt. Mariveles, Luzon, November, 1904, by 
Elmer, no. 6943, and at Palo, Leyte, January, 1906, by 
Elmer, no. 1213. 
Nigrofomes melanoporus ( Mont.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 
31: 425. 1904. Fomes melanoporoides Ces. Myc. Borneo 6. 1879. 
(Type from Borneo.) Fomes cornu-bovis Cooke, Grevillea 13: 2. 
1884. (Type from Malacca.) ? Polyporus cinereo-fuscus Curry, 
Trans. Linn. Soc. IT. 1: 124. pl. 13. f. 1. 1876. (Type from India.) 
Luzon: Mt. Mariveles, Elmer 6959. 
Pyropolyporus caliginosus (Berk.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 
Club 34: 478. 1907. Polyporus caliginosus Berk. Jour. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. 16: 46. 1878. (Type from Philippines.) Not Polyporus 
caliginosus Ces. Myc. Borneo 5. 1879. (Type from Borneo.) 
Leyte: Palo, Elmer 7221. 
Pyropoly porus pectinatus (KI.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 
34: 479. 1907; Polyporus pectinatus Kl. Linnaea 8: 485. 1833. 
(Type from the East Indies.) Fomes pullus (Berk. & Mont.) 
Cooke, Grevillea 14: 19. 1885. (Type from Java.) 
Luzon: Mt. Mariveles, Elmer 6933, 
