Some South African Stereums. 
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attachment, usually clustered, laterally connate, 3-4-5 cm. across, -5-1 mm. 
thick ; surface concentrically zoned and furrowed, densely strigose, with 
bright cinnamon-brown hairs ; hymenium smooth, ochraceous to lilaceous, 
spores (teste Massee) ellipsoid, hyaline, 7 x 4-5 /x. 
Locality. — Eastern Cape Province, on logs of Rhus laevigata, by J. D. 
Keet. 
Like St. vellereum, this species is also close to St. hirsutum. The surface 
is brighter coloured, and the plants as a whole usually larger and more 
robust. Appears to be rare. 
Stereum lobatum (Kunze), Fr. (Fig. 7.) 
Plants sessile, imbricate ; pileus coriaceous, thin, somewhat flexible, 
cuneate, laterally connate, narrowly attached ; 5-10 cm. broad X 3-7 cm. 
long x -5 mm. thick, surface with multi-coloured zones, finely pubescent 
Fig. 7. 
to subglabrous ; margin thin, undulate to lobed ; hymenium even, 
pinky-buff, cystidia absent ; spores hyaline, flattened od one side, 
4 x 1-5 fx. 
A common South African species ; Cape, Natal, and Transvaal. 
Stereum durbanense, sp. n., P. v. d. B. (Fig. 8.) 
Plants perennial, sessile, effused — reflexed ; pileus thick, corky, drying 
firm and brittle, 2-6 cm. broad x 1-3 mm. thick, imbricate ; surface con- 
centrically sulcate, tomentose, cinnamon, changing to grey in old specimens ; 
margin entire ; hymenium even, light fawn, spores hyaline, 3-4 /x. 
At Durban on old logs. 
St. subpileatum has encrusted cystidia. These we do not find in the 
Durban specimens. Apart from this, the specimen appears close to St. 
