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Fomes pseudo-ferreus, Wakefield. 
Pileus sessilis, dimidiatus, ungulatus vel irregulariter undulato- 
applanatus, subinde imbricatus, glaber, azonatus, cute rigida 
sicco rimosa e sien ineo fusco-ambrina tectus, margine sterili 
tumido albido.. Conteztus .floccosus, e cinnamomeo “ambrinus. 
Tubuli concolores, intus albidi. Pari minuti, rotundati, crasse 
tunicati, albidi, tactu flavescentes. Sporae non visae. 
FrpEratep Matay States. On diseased Hevea brasiliensis 
roots, W. NV. C. Belgrave (1917). 
The fungus is said to cause a root disease of Hevea. Unfortu- 
nately mature sporophores are very rare, and the only one avail- 
ill-formed and shows no spores. When properly developed 
fructifications are obtained the description will no doubt have to 
be revised, but as the species does not appear to agree with any 
known form, and some means of designation is necessary, it has 
been thought advisable to name it. The ver 'y young sporophores, 
both in nature and as obtained in pure culture, strongly suggest 
a Ganoderma. One of the cultures, however, was said to have 
, genus. 
mature pileus bears a distinct resemblance, as regards colour and 
texture, to that of Fomes ferreus, but it differs from that species 
in the white pore-mouths and darker flesh. 
Aleurodiscus australiensis, Wakefield. 
Sporophora primo irregulariter rotundata, demum late conflu- 
entia, hymenio roseo sicco alutaceo sub Rael te pulverulento, mar- 
e albido undulato sece- 
etts Basidia juvenilia 
clavata, intus roseo-oleoso- 
puttulatae, 60-70 x 20 py; 
basidia matura jam col- 
lapsa. Pseudophyses un- 
dulatae vel  submonili- 
ormes, apice obtusae, 
5 x 7-8 it. endro- 
physes cylindricae, apice 
obtusae,  superne cu- 
pressae, aculeatae, x 
16 Hyphae basales 
: arcte, subhymeniales laxe 
1. Raleste 2: bine be hymenium show- itertextae, nope 26 
ba roe Psoudophysis, coed nodosae, 2°5 p 
a. Youn 
Cs oc Deadiphvans (x 550 
7 bic awn Queen, 0 on a dead branch, C. I. wb. 
