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Further Notes on the Phalloideae of Ceylon. 



BY 



T. FETCH, B.A., B.Sc. 



AN account of the piialloids of Ceylon, as far as they were 

 then kno^v^n, was pubhshed in a previous paper (Ann. 

 Perad., IV., pp. 139-182). The present contribution adds 

 details of two more speoip-^ and further notes on some of those 

 previously recoided. 



Mutinus Fleischeri Penzig. 



In a letter to Berkeley, quoted in the introduction to 

 IJerkeloy and Broome's Enumeration of the Fungi of Ceylon, 

 Tliwaites wrote: " At an elevation of more than 7,000 feet I 

 found a single specimen of a new species of Phallus of a deep 

 red (iolour, whicii has not occurred to me elsewhere." This 

 specimen is not mentioned in the list of species, nor is it in the 

 Peradeniya herbarium. 



In August, 1908, I found what may be the same species in 

 tiie jungle at Hakgala, at an elevation of about 6,000 feet. 

 The collection consisted of one expanded specimen and four 

 " eggs " ; two of the latter subsequently expanded in the 

 laboratory. 



The " egg " is vertically elongated, oval, the upper end 

 being at first rounded, then pointed, up to 2-5 cms. high and 

 1-5 cm. diameter, white at the base, usually mottled Avith 

 reddish-brown in the upper half. My specimens were clustered, 

 three in one group and two in the other. The mycelial cords 

 are white, and moderately stout, up to 2 mms. in diameter. 



The expanded specimen was 10-5 cms. high. Its stalk was 

 1-5 cm. in diameter just below the head and 1*2 cm. in 

 diameter just above the volva ; it tapered to a blunt point 

 within the volva. The head was conical, pointed at the apex, 

 imperforate, 1-8 cm. higli. The colour of the stalk was 

 [Aunals of the Royal Botanic GardeDS, Peradeniya, Vol. V., Part I., Jan., 1911.] 



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