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Sources, ges isolated woods or clumps at high altitudes, 
Fourcades 
eae ice lala are oye Con. 34, very imperfectly 
described from specimens said to have been sent by Gueinzius 
and Krauss from ‘‘ Port Natal,” is very likely W. cupressoides 
from the Cape of Good Hope. 
XXII.— FUNGI EXOTICI: XXIV. 
n the present pee nine species which appear to be 
new oe science are described. One, Fomes pseudo-ferreus, is the 
cause of a serious P60 disease of Hevea brasiliensis in the 
Federated Malay States. This disease was originally attributed 
7 Poria hypolateritia,* but material received at Kew shows that 
the fungus is a pileate species, and apparently an undescribed 
species of Fomes. Unfortunat tely the material available is im- 
perfect, and perfect sporophores appear to be rarely formed. It 
has been judged oles eae od Naa to give the species a 
name for convenience of ref 
Fomes elegans was said 3 3 found on Jee Shorea robusta 
ut is not recorded as causing acd great injury. xcept for 
Cercospora latimaculans and Puccinia ae the other 
species recorded are s saiptuplivles: 
Fomes elegans, Wakefield. 
Pileus sessilis, tenuis, Sonata postice decurrens, 4-6 x 2°5-3'°5 
em., brunneo-griseus, zonis sco-badiis concentricis notatus, 
demum rimosus rugulosusque, liydienio pallido concavo. on- 
textus aurantio-brunneus, 3-4 mm. crassus. Tubuli vix palh- 
diores, intus albido-farcti, 1-15 mm. longi. Port minuti, tactu 
velutini, pallide roseo- -cinnamonei. Setulae nullae. ae e 
hyalino fulvescentes, late ellipticae vel subglobosae, 5 x 4-4- 
Inpia. Singhbhum, on living Shorea robusta (the Sal), 
R. S. Hole (1916). 
is is a pre neat species, with marked characters. 
Ridgway’s “<Sanford’s brown,’’ while the colour of the pore- 
mouths is nearest to ‘‘ light pinkish cinnamon. The _pileus is 
thin for a Fomes, but shows oes aie each season’s growt 
being about 5 mm. in thicknes 
* Belgrave, W. N Root Disease. < ——— Rubber in —. in 
Ag. Bull. Fed. Malay es iv. 1916, p 
