MuvrRRILL: PHILIPPINE POLYPORACEAE 477 
Fomes philippinensis Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus dimidiate, sessile, bracket-shaped, applanate above, plane 
or convex below, 5-10 xX 10-15 x I-2.5 cm.; surface horny, 
thinly encrusted, radiate-rugose, glabrous, somewhat zonate, shal- 
lowly sulcate, becoming slightly rimose with age, pale-isabelline 
to dull-umbrinous ; margin sterile, pallid, glabrous, zonate, rather 
thick, entire, at length somewhat truncate and furrowed: context 
punky, tough, isabelline, zonate, 5-10 mm. thick ; tubes more or 
less distinctly stratified, 2-3 mm. long each season, isabelline 
within, mouths pallid, regular, circular, 5 to a mm., edges thick, 
obtuse, entire: spores ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 5 x 4 #; hyphae 
hyaline, 3-4 2; cystidia none. 
Type collected on the Lamao River, Luzon, 700 m., on a 
dead trunk, March 23, 1904, by-R. S. Williams. 
FomEs semitostus Berk. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 6: 143. 1854. 
(Type from the Khasia Mountains, India.) 
Luzon: Lamao, 80 m., Williams ; Mt. Mariveles, Elmer 6050. 
Leyte: Palo, Elmer 7222. 
GANODERMA AMBOINENSE (Lam.) Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 5: 70. 
1889. Agaricus amboinensis Lam. Enc. 1: 49. 1783. (Type 
from Amboina.) 
Luzon: Lamao, 80 m., Williams. 
Ganoderma subtornatum Murrill, sp. nov. 
Pileus sessile, short-stipitate, flabelliform, with a narrow base, 
applanate, slightly concave below, hard and rigid, 6-11 x 6-12 x 
cm.; surface thinly encrusted, shining-black, except where cov- 
ered with the brown conidia, glabrous, sulcate, radiate-rugose ; 
Margin truncate, slightly furrowed, sterile, entire: context. 2-4 
mm. thick, punky, white above, chestnut-colored below ; tubes 
unstratified, slender, 5-8 mm. long, avellaneous-umbrinous within, 
Mouths regular, circular, 5 to a mm., smoky-fuliginous, edges 
obtuse, entire : spores ovoid, pale-brown, finely asperulate, 9 x 6-7 
EL; hyphae dark-brown, 5-6 p; cystidia none: stipe lateral, com- 
Pressed, 0-2 cm. long, 1.5—2 cm. thick, resembling the pileus in 
Surface and substance. 
Type collected on the Lamao River, Luzon, 100 m., on a 
decayed trunk, November, 1903, by R. S. Williams. Col- 
lected also on Mt. Mariveles, Luzon, November, 1904, 
by A. D. E. Elmer, mo. 6943, and at Palo, Leyte, January, 
1906, by Elmer, vo. 7213. 
