by a small, tomentose pad. As to color and habits, it is quite the 

 same as Stereum surinamense, but very rarely has a disposition to 

 take infundibuliform shapes. I think it is entirely distinct but only 

 in shape. The types (three specimens) aie in box 102 at Leiden. At 

 Paris are two specimens under the same label by Leveille. One of 

 them is the same as the type at Leiden, the other is Stereum Mellisii, 

 a very different plant. This confusion by Leveille has led to recent 

 errors in the naming of Philippine plants. 



SPECIMENS. A fine collection from Dr. Zenker, Congo, Africa. This same plant from Dr. 

 Zenker was sent to Hennings, who referred it to "Thelephora cfr. aurantiaca Berk." and was dis- 

 tributed by Dr. Zenker under this name, and found in several museums. This same collection is 

 said to be the basis of "Thelephora Amigenatska Henn." which is not now represented at Berlin in 

 the cover. 



STEREUM MALABARENSE. A probable form of the preceding plant, but 

 very thin, and with incised, fimbriate margin, was received in abundance by Cooke 

 from Malabar and referred to Stereum elegans, to which it hardly has an analogy. 

 This Malabar collection seems to have grown in the earth. 



STEREUM FLABELLATUM. This is for me a form of Stereum affine, hav- 

 ing all the characters of the type form, but often lobed and the surface strongly 

 slriate. It is only known from the collection of Duss in Guadalupe. Cotype speci- 

 mens are found in the museum at Berlin. According to the collector's notes it is 

 pale when fresh, but the dried specimens are dark reddish-bay color. 



STEREUM OBLIQUUM (Fig. 562). Pileus reddish-brown (now), narrowly 

 lanceolate, acute, with a slender, lateral stem. Smooth, striate. 



This was based on Zollinger's exsiccatae No. 983, and the set is found in several 

 museums. Our figures are from those in Kew. In the British Museum the specimens 

 of the same number are not lateral, but have an oblique attachment, and tend to 

 infundibuliform. There is at Kew a similar collection from Australia, but otherwise 

 only known from the original Zollinger collections. The Zollinger distribution at 

 Kew, British Museum, Leiden, and Montagne's herbarium (type) are all the same, 

 but I think the one at Berlin is different. Excepting as to its long stalk and very 

 narrow form, Stereum obliquum has all the characters of Stereum affine and for 

 me is only a form. 



SYNONYMS. 



Guepinia (sic) flabellata, Malay, Cooke = Stereum glabrum. 



Stereum Huberianum, Brazil, Hennings, distributed Ule 42 is Stereum fissum, entire specimens. 



Stereum pallens, Brazil, Karsten. There is a single little cotype specimen at Paris. I take it 

 to be the same as Stereum cyphelloides. 



Stereum partitum, Ceylon, Berkeley = Stereum glabrum. 



Stereum pusiplum, Cuba, Berkeley. A very small species known only from one collection from 

 Cuba, and from this material it is not possible to say that it differs from Stereum cyphelloides. 



Stereum spathulatum (bis), Brazil, Berkeley = Stereum glabrescens. 



Thelephora Amigenatska, Africa, Hennings. There is no type in the cover at Berlin now. 

 Zenker's collection (1996) found in several museums as " Thelephora cfr. aurantiaca Berk." is said to 

 be same, as it no doubt is from the description. It is Stereum affine. As Berkeley never named any 

 specimen "Thelephora aurantiaca," it would be quite difficult to make the comparison as requested 

 on the label. 



Thelephora Uleana, Brazil, Hennings, I judge from my notes is same as Stereum quisquiliare. 

 The type has an endorsement on it that it is a Cyphella, but I can not see on what grounds. 



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