SECTION GANODERMUS. 



FORNICATUS (Fig. 398). Pileus and stipe with black, laccate 

 crust. Stipe slender, dorsally-lateral, attached. Context thin, cinna- 

 mon, fulvous. Pores minute, hard, compact. Mouths at first white 

 (contrary to description), then purplish brown. Spores 6 x 10, smooth. 

 No type exists, but it is frequent in Brazil, the "type locality," according 

 to numerous collections of Spruce (No. 48, 79, 172). It is charac- 

 terized by the peculiar stipe attachment. In Australia are similar 

 plants, but the spores are rougher. There is also a similar plant com- 

 mon in Ceylon (teste Fetch), but I have seen no specimens. Specimens 

 from New Caledonia determined as amboinensis I take to be the same. 



MASTOPORUS. Stipe thick, lateral, with a smooth laccate 

 crust. Context thin, cinnamon, scanty. Pores hard, minute, compact, 

 dark purplish brown. Spores 5x8, smooth. Very similar to forni- 

 catus as to the peculiar hard pores. Type from Singapore at Paris, 

 but it comes to me frequently from Africa and is probably common 

 throughout the East. 



FLEXIPES (bis). Pileus unilateral, attached, small (1-2 cm.) 

 with a strongly laccate, black crust. Stipe slender, cylindrical, with 

 a smooth strongly laccate, black crust. Pores small, pale cinnamon. 

 Spores 5 x 10, smooth. Known from one collection, from China, in 

 the herbarium of Patouillard. It differs from all others in this group 

 in its slender stem and habits. It has a general resemblance (except 

 small pores) to our figure (411) of Polyporus longipes. 



LINGUA (Fig. 399). Pileus small, rarely more than two or three 

 cm. wide, but deep (2-3 cm.) in proportion to its width. Attached by 

 a dorsal-lateral, short stem. Surface dark reddish brown, laccate, sul- 

 cate. Pores long, reaching the crust, small. Context cinnamon. Not 

 common in the museums, but specimens seen from Java, Sumatra, and 

 New Guinea. Known from its small size and peculiar shape. Type 

 has not been seen. We take the species in the sense of Montagne's 

 determination. It does not exactly correspond to the original illustra- 

 tion, but we have seen no specimen that does. 



BONINENSIS. Stipe dorsally prolonged. Surface dull, ferruginous or cin- 

 namon, not laccate. Context dark tabacinus. Spores 6 x 12, smooth. Known 

 only from the type at Paris from Bonin Island, collected by Wright and dis- 

 tributed (U. S. Expl. Exp.) as Polyporus lucidus. The corresponding collec- 

 tion at Kew is a different (laccate) plant. 



REGULICOLOR. Surface dull, reddish brown, not laccate. Stipe lateral, 

 apparently proceeding from a rhizome or a rooting stem. Known from a single 

 specimen at Kew stated to be from Cuba, but I think the locality is doubtful. 



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