CONTEXT PINKISH CINNAMON. 



text scanty and pore layers pinkish cinnamon. Pores very minute, 

 in narrow (1-1^2 mm.) layers. 



This is known from the type at Kew, from India. Also a speci- 

 men from Fries (Tahiti) sent Kew and labeled (in error) Fomes 

 Kamphoveneri.. The illustration, under the name Fomes semitostus, 

 in Fetch's work is a misdetermination (cfr. Fomes lignosus). Tra- 

 metes plebia (which Murrill called Fomes luzonensis) has the same 

 context and pores, but not the same surface, and for me is a Trametes 

 with non-stratose pores. It has been referred to Fomes semitostus 

 as a synonym. 



Compare LeRati, tasmanicus, Kamphoveneri. 



FOMES XONTOSTUS, with the same context color, pores, and texture. 

 This has well-developed context and the surface is pale, sulcate. It is perhaps a 

 form of Fomes semitostus, but the name has no application to it. 



SPECIMENS. Henri Perrier de la Bathie, Madagascar. 



FOMES SCLEROMYCES. Pileus thin, applanate, with reddish brown 

 surface, blackish with age. Context pinkish cinnamon. Pores small, round. 



Known from type (Cuba) at Kew and very similar to preceding, but with 

 distinctly larger pores. It is omitted in N. A. F. 



FOMES RUBRITINCTUS. Pileus thick, applanate, with 

 smooth, brown surface, blackening with age. Context when young 

 pinkish cinnamon; when old, sayal brown. Pores large, round, some- 

 what irregular. Pore layers separated by thick layers of context in a 

 similar manner to that found in Fomes connatus. 



This is based on one collection in Ellis' herbarium, made by 

 Smith in Nicaragua. It was named Fomes laminatus by Ellis and so 

 distributed, Smith No. 138. Afterwards Murrill renamed it as above. 



Compare laminatus. 



FOMES DOCHMIUS (Fig. 575). Pileus thin, applanate, with 

 thin edge. Surface with a black, rimose crust. Context pinkish cin- 

 namon. Pores very minute, hard, concolorous, with soft, pubescent 

 mouths. 



This seems to be quite a frequent species in the East and West 

 Indies, but most of the specimens at Kew are from Ceylon. It has 

 been confused with Fomes ferreus by Berkeley and others. A single 

 specimen (Wright 248) from Cuba, is at Kew. It was published from 

 Cuba by Berkeley as Fomes ferreus, and is the same plant that 

 Murrill calls Fomes subferreus in part. The recent Vienna exsiccatae 

 1908, under the latter name, is Fomes dochmius. 



SPECIMENS. Ceylon, T. Fetch. 

 Compare subferreus. 



