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pileus flabelliform, 1-5-5 cm. long, 1-5-6 cm. broad, when young evidently 
at times infundibuliform and splitting on one side, zoned, finely velvety, 
chestnut-coloured ; margin thin, lobed, lighter than pileus ; stalk -5-1 cm. 
long x 1-3 mm. thick, velvety, brown ; hymenium even, pinky-buff, 
spores hyaline, subglobose, 4 /x diam. 
Not an unfrequent fungus in the native bush of Zululand. W. Haygarth. 
Stereum proximum, Lloyd. (Fig. 2.) 
Plants usually growing densely clustered ; pileus thin spathulate to 
suborbiculate, attached by a reduced base, upper surface finely velvety, 
light cinnamon to light ochre, partly glabrous with age, concentrically 
Fig. 2. 
zoned, -5-5 cm. broad, 1-5-3-5 cm. high ; hymenium reddish bay, with a 
waxy appearance ; encrusted cystidia scanty, 49 /x x 14 /x, projecting 
beyond the hymenium ; spores globose, 4 /x diam. 
Gillitts, Natal. W. Haygarth. 
The finely velvety surface, combined with habit of growth and waxy, 
reddish-bay hymenium, should aid in recognising this fungus. 
2. Sessile Species. 
Stereum australe, Lloyd. (Fig. 3.) 
Pileus coriaceous, attached by the reflexed side or broadly centrally, 
densely tomentose, becoming concentrically furrowed, brown to ashy ; 
about -5-1 mm. thick ; margin entire ; hymenium even, smooth, grey to 
light fawnish, with coloured conducting ducts (lacticiferous ducts) which curve 
into the hymenium between the basidia ; ducts, 4 fi diam. ; spores hyaline, 
flattened on one side, 3 x 4 /x. 
Occurs in Natal and the Transvaal. 
