230 



Balance Sheet. 



As on 29th February, 1008. 



Liabilities. 



Assets. 



Cash in Chartered Bank of I. A. C. 



460 66 



Balance as per expenditure and receipts a/c 



460 66 



Total 



... 460 66 



460 66 



G. V. L. Scott, Secretary. 



FUNGUS INSIDE A BAMBOO. 



While cutting dead stems of a Bamboo in the Botanic Gardens 

 Singapore, one joint of a dead but not rotten culm was found to be 

 lined inside with a leathery mass of a kaki colour. The hollow space 

 was completely covered by a tube of this substance s of an inch or 

 more thick, firm and leathery- and detached like a cylinder exactly 

 fitting the hollow of the Bamboo. A small specimen of a Polystictiis 

 was found growing on the outside of a bamboo on the clump, and this 

 and the mat of mycelium inside were sent to Kew. 



Mr. G. Massee reports on the specimens. "The fungus is Polys- 

 tictus occidentalism Klotsch. and the mycelium belongs to it as proved 

 by examination of specimens in the herbarium. P. occidentals is 

 cosmopolitan in the warmer regious, notwithstanding its specific 

 name." 



MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF THE MALAY 

 PENINSULA. 



The Indexes to the three volumes of Monocotyledons of the 

 Malay peninsula are now printed and can be had free by purchasers 

 of the volumes on application to the Editor. 



H. N. Ridley. 



