Rev. M. J. Berkeley on Exotic Fungu 383 



of Spec. Plant. EfFuso-reflexed or resupinato-aiRxed. Pileus 

 2 — ^3 inches in diameter, suberoso-coriaccous, suborbicular, 

 zoned, quite smooth, sometimes longitudinally rugulose, thin, 

 greyish wood-coloured, blackish towards the margin. Pores 

 cinereous, 6-sided, those towards the margin imperfect and 

 pale. 



Andes between Popayan and Almaguer, Humboldt. Mau- 

 ritius, Mr. Telfair. Calcutta, Dr. Wight. 



Klotzsch has very rightly referred Boh reticulatus, Hook., 

 to this species. The reticulated appearance arises from the 

 specimen having been accidentally reversed, and in conse- 

 quence a new hymenium is in the act of formation on the pi- 

 leus, while on the other hand many of the pores are stopped 

 up with a new incipient pileus. The plant from Calcutta is 

 somewhat different, the pileus being dark brown. The size of 

 the pores is very variable. 



2. P. [Favolus] Klotzschii, Berk., P. sinensis, Kl. I. c. and 

 MSS. Hook. Herb, not Fr. Syst. Myc. Pileus subreniform, 

 zoned, browTi black, clothed with compressed branched bristles, 

 pores brown, rather large, rotundato-hexagonal. Allied to 

 Polyporus hynoideus, but differs in the larger hexagonal pores, 

 which are however many times smaller than in the next spe- 

 cies. The vertex is sometimes lengthened out into a short 

 spurious stem. Pileus 5 inches long, 7 inches broad, ^ — -J of 

 an inch thick at the base, thin in front, vaulted, not flattened 

 as in the next species, margin acute. Much more strongly 

 zoned than PoL sinetisis, Fr., and more hispid. 



Mauritius. Mr, Telfair. 



3. P. (Favolus) sinensis^ Fr., Pol. [Scenidium) Wightii, KL 

 Linn. vol. vii. p. 200. tab. 10. Sessile, thin, mostly reniform ; 

 pileus flat, brown shaded with reddish-grey ; margin zoned ; 

 bristles compressed, dichotomous at their apices, fastigiate, 

 brown; alveoli 6-sided, elongated, pinkish-brown. Pileus 

 sometimes effused at the base, 2^ inches long, 5 inches broad, 

 emarginate, in an early stage of growth crested with the rigid 

 recurved bristles ; these at length are more scattered, com- 

 pressed, wedge-shaped, or palmate, incised above, fastigiate, 

 brown, vanishing towards the margin. Alveoli 3 lines long, 

 2 lines broad, those in the centre deepest, shallow towards the 



