282 POLYPOREAE OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



margin acute, cream coloured or fuliginous; context 1 mm. to 

 2 mm. thick, corky, creamy white: tubes 1-5 mm. long, discoloured 

 within; mouths angular to elongated, irregular, approximating 4 

 to the mm. ; edges entire, creamy white to greyish and greenish 

 drab; hyphae 7-24ju,. diam. 



Distribution. — Recorded from Eastern Cape Forest Conserv- 

 ancy. (Type in Natal Herbarium, No 151.) 



Differs from Tr. glabresce?is in habit, surface and pore- 

 characters. 



4. Trametcs sycomori, Henn. 



Plants annual, sessile or effused-reflexed ; pilei corky, imbri- 

 cate, connate, 4 cm. to 8 cm. by 3 cm. to 4 cm. by 1 cm. to 2-5 cm. ; 

 surface hard, white to creamy, azonate, minutely tomentose and 

 velvety, rugulose; context 07 cm. to 2 cm., white, zoned, soft, 

 fibrous, tough; tubes 2 mm. to 6 mm. long, elongated on decurrent 

 portion, white within; mouths subrotund, 2 to 3 to the mm.; edges 

 thick, entire, white to creamy; spores hyaline, smooth, subglobose, 

 3ju, to 4/a; hyphae 4/x to 6/ul. 



Distribution. — Obtained from the Tugela, Natal, by Indian 

 collector Moonsammy. 



5. Trametes lactinea, Berk. 



Plants annual, sessile or effused reffexed ; pileus corky, dimi- 

 diate, imbricate, 6 cm. to 7 cm. by 1-5 cm. to 3-5 cm. by 0-5 cm. 

 to 1-7 cm.; surface azonate to indistinctly zoned, decidedly velvety 

 tomentose when young, more minutely pubescent with age, white 

 or ochraceous, rugulose; margin acute or rounded; context white, 

 zoned, 0-5 cm. to 1-6 cm., fibrous, soft, tough; tubes 0-5 mm. to 

 2 mm. long, white within; mouths subrotund 3 to 4 to the mm., 

 edges entire, thin, white becoming creamy to yellow; spores hyaline, 

 hyphae simple, 4/x to 6/a. 



Distribution . — Recorded by E. M. Doidge at Pietermaritz- 

 burg, Natal (Herb. Div. Botany, No. 9803); J. D. Keet, in 

 Eastern Cape Forest Conservancy on dry, rotted Schotia latifolia. 



This plant is close to Tr. sycomori, with softer surface, smaller 

 pores, thinner pore wall, and when young more tomentose surface. 



6. Trametes protect, Berk. 



Pileus annual or persisting a second season, coriaceous to 

 corky, dimidiate, decurrent behind or effused reflex ed, applanate, 

 conchate, rarely convex below, often laterally extended, frequently 

 very thin and flexible, 1 cm. to 10 cm. by 0-5 cm. to 5-5 cm. by 

 0-2 cm. to 1-5 cm. ; surface smooth, velvety, hispid to villous with 

 soft brown hairs, in old specimens greyish and rough, at times 

 setose, azonate, in thick specimens becoming sulcate; context 1 mm. 

 to 5 mm. corky, fibrous, olive brown; tubes 01 mm. to 2 mm. long, 

 paler than context; mouths subrotund to angular or elongated, 

 2 to 3 to the mm. ; edges entire, thin, greyish to fawn or umber 

 spores hyaline, hyphae 37/x to 7ju. 



