The Philppine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. XIII, No. 4, July, 1918. 
FUNGI FROM BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 
By Harry S. Yates 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory , Bureau of 
Science, Manila) 
The fungus flora of Borneo is at present but little known. 
In 1844 Leveille 1 cited two species of Exidia, one of which is 
described as new, collected in Borneo by Korthals. Berkeley 2 
gives a list of thirty-four fungi collected in Borneo; of these 
one is described as new. Nineteen are referred to the genus 
Polyporus and of the remainder all but three belong either to 
the Polyporacecte or Agaricaceae. In 1898 Massee 3 cited nine 
species of fungi from the east coast of British North Borneo, 
one of which is described as new. Three species belong to the 
Agaricaceae and the remainder are Polyporaceae. Hennings 4 
describes a species of Omphalia from western Borneo near Beng- 
kajang. Bresadola 5 6 gives the results of a study of a collection 
of fungi made by Winkler in 1908 in southeast Borneo. In this 
paper he cites twenty-one species all appertaining to the higher 
fungi, three of which are described as new. In 1912 Sydow 0 
described five new species of lower fungi all collected in south- 
east Borneo by Winkler. 
By far the most important paper dealing with Borneo fungi 
is that of Cesati 7 in which the fungi collected by Beccari during 
his travels in Borneo are listed and the new forms described. 
Unfortunately this publication is not available in Manila, but 
by a search through Saccardo’s Sylloge Fungorum what is be- 
lieved to be a fairly complete list of the fungi known from Bor- 
neo has been compiled. The total number of fungi reported 
from Borneo previous to the present paper is two hundred 
ninety-six; of these about thirty are Agaricaceae, eighty-three 
Polyporaceae, sixteen Tlielephoraceae, three Clavariaceae, and 
one Hydnaceae, making a total of one hundred thirty-two to be 
referred to the higher fungi. Of the remainder, forty-three 
species belong to the Xylariaceae and about thirteen to the 
1 Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. Ill 2 (1844) 167-221. 
2 Hooker Journ. Bot. Kew Miscel. 4 (1852) 161-164. 
3 Kew Bulletin (1898) 119-120. 
4 Hedwigia 32 (1893) 63, t. 7, f. 3. 
6 Ann. Myc. 9 (1911) 549—553. 
6 Ann. Myc. 10 (1912) 77-85. 
7 Atti Accad. Sci. Napoli 8 (1878) 1-28, t. 1—J) 
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