Specimens from Florida Mrs. M. A. Noble, C. G. Lloyd; Louisiana 

 A. B. Langlois; Southern California T. S. Brandegee; West Indies Wm. 

 Cradwick, Thos. Langton, H. Miller; Central America S. Schumo; Brazil 

 G. Peckolt, M. L. Demazio; Africa Rev. J. Gillet, J. M. Wood. 



LENTINUS STUPPEUS. From the nature of the hairs this is the 

 same as villosus but the color is dark, almost black. It is apparently an 

 African species only. I have heretofore referred it to cirrosus, which is 

 probably same species. I have specimens from Madagascar Henri Perrier 

 de la Bathie (three collections). 



LENTINUS NICOTIANA is for me only a form of Lentinus stuppeus 

 with the hairs fasciculate, into scale-like bundles. 



LENTINUS VELUTINUS. Color brown. Stem densely and persist- 

 ently hirsute, velutinate. Pileus with similar covering but on the margin 

 the hairs are longer and rigid. A most common species in tropical America, 

 more rare in Africa and the East. I have species from Theodore Stuckert, 

 Argentine; Leon Castillon, Argentine; Dr. Anna Brockes, Brazil; Donor 

 unknown, India; Henri Perrier de la Bathie, Madagascar; S. Hutchings, 

 Bengal. 



LENTINUS EGREGIUS of Australia is quite close to velutinus but is 

 a larger plant with narrow, close gills. It is only known from the type. 



LENTINUS DICHROUS. There is no material at Kew, but my col- 

 lection from Samoa has been so determined. It has the same velutinate 

 stipe as velutinus, but hairs on the pileus are more reduced and scabrous. 

 It is also a smaller and more slender species. Lentinus dichrous was based 

 on an old Zollinger collection which I have not located, but I know no other 

 name for the Samoa collection. 



LENTINUS BLEPHARODES. This species of the American tropics 

 has been confused both with velutinus and with similis of the East. It is 

 intermediate, different from velutinus in having a usually striate pileus, 

 also yellowish, more distant gills. It is frequent in the American tropics, 

 and was originally from Cuba. I have a specimen from the East deter- 

 mined as Lentinus braccatus which is probably the same thing. Specimen 

 from Gustavo Peckolt, Brazil, and Botanical Garden, Saharanpur, India. 



LENTINUS SIMILIS. This species is very similar to blepharodes as 

 to the pileus. It occurs only in the East, not in the American tropics, but 

 the Ceylon specimens were mostly misreferred by Berkeley to Lentinus 

 blepharodes. It differs from blepharodes in the covering of the stipe not 

 being velutinate but has a spongy, matted covering, as first pointed out 

 by Fetch. Berkeley also misreferred one Ceylon collection to Lentinus 

 badius, a glabrous species of the Philippines. I have a collection (old and 

 effete) from M. A. D. Machardo, Perak. I have also one specimen that I 

 collected in Samoa, where it must have been very rare as I only found 

 one specimen. 



LENTINUS FULVUS. Color dark brown. Stipe strongly hirsute, 

 velutinate. Pileus hispid, hirsute. This species, known at Kew only from 

 Australia, could be regarded as an exaggerated velutinus, same general 



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