200 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
— Arbor 20-30-pedalis, frondosa, ramulis teretibus apice rubiginoso- 
tomentellis mox glabratis. Foliorum petiolus communis subteres, 
4-6-pollicaris. Foliola alterna, 3—5-pollicaria, obtusa v. breviter 
acuminata, crenis paucis sæpe obsoletis, basi cuneata v. acuta et 
breviter petiolulata, consistentia laurina, utrinque reticulato-venosa, 
nervis primariis parallelis subtus prominentibus vix intra marginem 
anastomosantibus. Panicula semipedalis, late pyramidata, floribunda. 
Florés albi, mediocres, -secus ramos dense fasciculati, breviter pedi- 
cellati, omnes quos vidi abortu masculi. Sepala fere lineam longa, 
ovata, concava, extus puberula. Petala rhombea, breviter unguicu- 
lata. Discus crasso-carnosus, subinteger. Stamina flore dimidio 
longiora. Capsule obtuse, triquetræ, fere trilobæ, 6—7 lin. late, 
supra planæ, basi in stipitem brevem attenuatæ, siccitate insigniter 
transverse rugosæ, in vivo tamen teste Spruceo rugæ haud apparent ; 
juniores stylo trifido coronatæ; valvulæ intus villosæ.—Near San- 
tarem. 
(To be continued.) 
: DECADES or Funat; by the Rev. M. J. BERKELEY, M.A., F.L.S. 
Decade XXXVI. 
Sikkim- Himalayan Fungi collected by Dr. Hooker. 
(Continued from p. 172.) 
351. Trichocoma paradoxum, Juugh., Prem. in Fl. Javæ, p. 9, 
tab. 2, fig. 7. Hook. fiL, No. 63, cum ic. 
Has. On dry dead wood. Sikkim, 7—9,000 feet. October.* 
I bave little to add to the long description given by Junghuhn, 
except that the upright fascicles of threads which proceed from the 
base give off, during their course, more or less horizontal branched 
threads, on which the irregular echinulate spores are produced. Some 
of these threads are thicker and slightly nodulose, as in Zfrcyria. There 
are two distinct peridia, the interior springing not from the edge of the 
other, but from the base, and separated from the outer and shorter by 
-a few flocci, which are mostly bent towards the base, as though the 
. Outer peridium had at first grown more rapidly, and the elongation of 
the inner peridium has taken place principally above. 
* Tt has been found also on the Santee River, South Carolina, by Mr. Ravenel. 
