albobadium of the United States, same color of hymenium, but it has a 

 strongly reflexed portion and is otherwise different. The hymenium is 

 densely covered with crested, hyaline cystidia, hence a "new genus" no 

 doubt. 



KIRTIKAR, COL. K. R., India: 



Polystictus dermatodes. This was reported in Letter No. 31 as 

 Polystictus flavus, but on examining it at Kew I find it has a different struc- 

 ture. The cystidia are the same as the genus Peniophora. 



JARVIS, EDMUND, Australia, (No. 31 p.p.): 

 Stereum Thozetii. 



JARVIS, EDMUND, Australia, (No. 25): 

 Stereum vellereum. 



O'CONNOR, CHARLES, Mauritius, (No. 14): 



Fomes (Ganoderma) which I think is not named if it is normal. 

 The tissue is hard, horny, and appears entirely different from the ordinary 

 context of similar species. I find several similar specimens in the museum 

 referred to Fomes australis, but I question the reference. I believe Fomes 

 scansilis to be a similar abnormality of Fomes australis. 



FETCH, T., Ceylon: 



Polyporus ochroleucus. An old, exolete specimen, such as Berkeley 

 called Fomes compressus. When fresh the species is white, but the herbarium 

 specimens gradually turn reddish brown with age. I have specimens from 

 Japan which were white when I received them a year ago, now all are dis- 

 colored. When exposed to weather the specimens become black (such as 

 this from Mr. Petch), and would never suggest any relation even to the 

 fresh, white plant. It seems to be of wide distribution, Australia, Ceylon, 

 Japan, etc., but is absent from American regions. 



LUJA, EDMUND, Congo Beige: 



Ganoderma (unnamed) close to lucidus and mangifera. Spores 

 5 x 10, smooth. Context too pale for mangifera though color, surface, and 

 pores are similar. 



O'CONNOR, CHARLES, Mauritius, (No. 2): 



Trametes unnamed, I believe. White with a dull upper surface, re- 

 sembling Lenzites repanda. Poor, small, round isabelline. In general ap- 

 pearance close to Lenzites repanda, but as to pores it is quite different. 



BRAUN, DR. K., German Africa: 



Daedalea albo-fuscus as named by Patouillard. I have not seen 

 the type which was described as irpicoid. I should class these specimens 

 in Polystictus, close to biformis. 



