Murrill : Additional Philippine Polyporaceae 411 



opaque brown behind, laccate, shining and dark reddish brown in 

 front, rugose and roughly tuberculose, sulcate ; margin abruptly 

 acute, yellowish, sterile, entire : context ferruginous above, fulv- 

 ous below, woody-fibrous, I cm. thick ; tubes cinereous-fuscous, 

 slender, i cm. long, mouths circular, regular, 3-4 to a mm., 

 whitish when young, concolorous at maturity, edges thick, entire : 

 spores ovoid, finely asperulate, pale brownish, 8-9 x 4-5 fi 5 hy- 

 phae ferruginous-fulvous ; cystidia none. 



Type collected on the island of Balabac, March-April, 1906, 



by L. Mangubat, {539). 



Ganoderma Currani Murrill, sp. nov. 



Pileus corky, rigid, reniform, convex above, concave below, 



[ slightly depressed behind, attached at the hilum to a very long 



stipe, 3-4 x 5-6 x 0.5 cm.; surface glabrous, laccate, shining, 



reddish brown, shallowly concentrically sulcate, radiate-rugose ; 



margin thick, undulate, concolorous : context fulvous, punky, 1-2 



mm. thick ; tubes slender, 3-4 mm. long at the thickest part of 



the pileus, grayish fuscous, mouths becoming concolorous, circu- 



| lar to angular, 4-5 to a mm.: spores ovoid, distinctly asperulate, 



I deep fulvous, copious, 8-10 x 6-7//: stipe erect, sublaterally at- 



| jached, nearly cylindrical, slightly irregular, equal, laccate, gla- 



| orous, encrusted, 15-20 cm. long, 5-10 mm. thick. 



Type collected on dead wood at Lamao, Bataan Province, 

 I Luzon, September, 1907, by H. M. Curran, (7544). 



Nigrofomes melanoporus (Mont.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31 : 

 425. 1904. 



■ Luzon : Lamao, Bataan Province, Curran, {7340). 



Pvropolyporus albomarginatus (Lev.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey 

 Club 34: 478. 1907. Polypoms ochrocroccusY . Henn. (Mon- 

 sunia i : I45> 1899.) exactly corresponds to this species, 



judging from the description, and should be treated as a syn- 

 onym. 



Luzon: Bosoboso, Rizal Province, Ramos, {2149), {?I5<>), 

 \ 2I 56) ; Lamao River, Bataan Province, Copland 173 / Mt. Mar- 



Merrill. 



*v, ^opciand 107-/. A specimen collected at Cam 

 y . Irs. Clemens agrees well with Fames pyrrhocreas Co 

 lave considered synonymous with P. albomarginatus. 

 urther collections will prove them distinct species. 



may be 



