A Preliminary List of Ceylon Polypori. 
BY 
T. FETCH, B.A., B.Sc. 
HE earliest record discovered, up to the present, of any 
Ceylon Polyporoid is contained in Houttuyn, Handleid- 
ing tot de Plant-en Kruidkunde, &c., published at Amsterdam 
in 1783. In that work two Ceylon fungi, obtained by the 
author from Herr Chr. P. Meijer, are described, under the 
names of Peziza Ceylonsche and Peziza limbosa, with figures. 
From the description Peziza Ceylonsche was probably Poly- 
sticius xanthopus, but the figure is that of a Lentinus : Peziza 
limbosa may have been Trametes ochroleuca. 
It might have been expected that the numerous botanists 
who collected in Ceylon from the time of Hermann would have 
gathered some of the larger fungi, but no record of their having 
done so has been found, except in the case of König (1777- 
1781). König’s specimens remained in the British Museum 
unnamed until 1842, when Berkeley described them in 
“ Notices of Fungi in the Herbarium of the British Museum,” 
Ann. Nat. Hist., X., pp. 369-384. The Polyporoids recorded 
for Ceylon in that paper are : — 
Poly poms agariceus. 
P. xanthopus. 
P. crenatus. 
P. Kœnigii. 
P. dubius. 
P. zonalis. 
P. zeylanicus. 
P. nigrocinctus. 
Trametes læticolor, 
Dædalea inæquabilis. 
Hexagonia Kœnigii, 
Trametes lactinea, described without locafity, was probably 
also from Ceylon. König’s specimens are still in the Her- 
barium of the Natural History Museum (South Kensington). 
Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniyä, Yol. VÏ., Part ïï., Nor., 1916. 
