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84 MR. SPRUCE'S BOTANICAL EXCURSION 
specimens of P. versicolor. This has been owing, probably, to some 
sudden check after rapid growth. 
340. Trametes lobata, n. s. ; latissima expansa reniformis lobata, lobis 
rotundatis; pileo pallido glabro nitidulo zonato rugoso; hymenio 
ochraceo, poris angulatis, ore elongato dentato demum sinuato; dis- 
sepimentis tenuioribus demum lamellosis. 
Has. On dead wood. Mung-durbi, 4,000 feet. z 
Sessile, but attached by a more or less distinctly marked disc; very 
broadly expanded, 8 inches broad, 4$ inches long, thin, but coriaceous, 
rather flexible, reniform, lobed, the lobes rounded, and sometimes 
assuming the appearance of young pilei; pale wood-coloured, smooth, 
somewhat shining, rough with radiating more or less.strongly marked 
ridges, repeatedly zoned, the zones rather darker; extreme edge very ` 
thin and acute. Hymenium pale ochraceous, uneven ; pores angular, + 
of an inch broad; orifice elongated, more or less toothed ; dissepiments 
rather thin, at length broken down into more or less distinct lamellæ. 
This species is extremely like 7. Leticolor. 
Extracts of Letters from RICHARD Spruce, Esq., written during a 
Botanical Mission on the AMAZON. 
(Continued from vol. ii. p. 809.) 
; Santarem, Jan. 29, 1850. 
My pear Sir,—It is only five days ago that I received, both to- 
gether, your letters of the 31st August and 2nd October, and I cannot 
express to you how welcome they were, for I began to think myself 
forgotten. The communication between Pará and the Sertao is at 
best very uncertain. The barque which brought your letters should have 
reached here several weeks ago, but the captain thrashed one of his 
Indians at Pará, for which every one of them ran away, and he was 
_ obliged to wait until the police captured them again. 
When I last wrote to you—which was along with a barrel containing 
the Victoria in spirits—I had some thoughts of ascending to the Barra, 
and I had a passage promised me in a steamer which the Government 
had just placed at the disposal of the President ; but the next arrival 
from Para brought word, that, in consequence of fresh disturbances at 
Pernambuco, the steamer had been ordered there with troops. There 
