were confused by Cooke with the next species and put on the same 

 sheet. Recent collections have been distributed by Ule under Hen- 

 ning's misdetermination as Stereum Huberianum. 



STEREUM GLABRUM (Fig. 560). Pileus spathulate to a re- 

 duced base, entire or cut into cuneate segments. Smooth, reddish 

 brown. Hyphae are deeply colored. 



This is a species of the Philippines and the East quite similar 

 in shape and appearance to Stereum fissum of the American tropics, 

 but differs in the color of the context and hyphse. It was originally 

 named from Java (Zoll. No. 16), and a cotype is at Berlin. Berkeley 

 called it also, from Ceylon, Stereum partitum, and Cooke got it from 

 Malay and discovered it to be a "new species" of "Guepinia" (sic). 

 There are but three collections in the museums, each with a different 



STEREUM CRISTATUM. Small (1-1^ cm.), petaloid, light 

 bay-brown, tapering to the base. Hymenium smooth, even, paler 

 than upper surface. The entire plant is glabrous, excepting it has 

 near the base on the upper side curious, coarse, crested growth, pos- 

 sibly not always developed, but present in all known specimens. It 

 is only known from Curtis and Ravenel's (scanty) collections. Those 

 at Kew (type) are petaloid with lateral, short stem. Those in the 

 British Museum (Ravenel's) have a tendency to be infundibuliform, 

 and this is probably the true shape of the plant when perfectly de- 

 veloped. 



Fig. 561 



Stereum affine. 



Fig. 562 



Stereum obliquum. 



STEREUM AFFINE (Fig. 561). Pileus petaloid, dark reddish- 

 bay color, glabrous, faintly zoned. Stipe tomentose. 



This species is quite frequent in the museums, and is mostly 

 misreferred to Stereum elegans. It grows on wood, and is attached 



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