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upwards, confluent with the pileus, and similar in colour and substance. 

 Hymenium oblique, white; pores punctiforra, about 90 to the inch, 

 with thick dissepiments. 



This very strange Fungus, which I find it very difficult to describe, is 

 well known to the Indians, who call it " Coata-p6," or Monkey 's-hand, 

 the Coata being a large black monkey. It resembles slightly that form 

 of P. australis figured in Annals of Nat. Hist. vol. iii. tab. 8. It ap- 

 pears however to be a good species, though possibly not in its normal 

 form, and at any rate not a form of P, australis. 



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* P. Leprieuriiy Mont. Ann. d. So. Nat. ser. 2, vol. 

 Spruce, n. 202. 



Hab. On dead trunks. Panure. 



* P. (Pleuxoipu^) picipes, Fr. Ep. p. 440. 



Hab. On trunks of trees. Panure and San Carlos. August, 1853. 



566, P, (Pleuropus) nephridins, n. s. ; pusillus, tenuis; pileo glabro 

 badio phlebophoro reniformi \ stipite brevissimo nigro ; poris minutis 

 punctiformibus. Spruce, n. 164, 210, 



Hab. On a dead trunk. Panure, Guia. March, 1853. 



Pileus |— 2 inches across, thin, coriaceous, reniform, red-bay, smooth; 

 cuticle behind or over the whole surface, raised into vein-like excres- 

 cences. Stem very short, black, sometimes simply disciform. Hyme- 

 nium pale ; pores punctiform. 



This is a small species, remarkable for the cuticle being reticulated 



like that of A. phlebopJiorus, as is the stem. 



* P. (Pleuropus) rTiipidius, Berk. Hook. Lond. Journ. vol. vi. p. 319. 



Spruce, n. 168. 



Hab. On wood in forests on the banks of Rio Negro. March, 1853. 

 There is also a beautiful miniature variety of this species, not two 



lines broad, from the Amazon. 



567. P. (Pleuropus) decolor, n. s. ; carnosulus, albidus, siccus sordide 

 umbrinus, pusillus; pUeo flabelliformi glabro; stipite cum pileo confluente; 

 poris mediis subhexagonis ; dissepimentis tenuibus. Spruce, n. 47. 



Hab. On decayed trunks. Panure. 



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igid 



Stem short. 



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when fresh ; dissepimeuts very thin ; edge minutely granulated. 

 A delicate species, approaching Tatolus in characters. 



