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FETCH : 
In 1844 Léveillé, in “ Champignons Exotiques,” Ann. Sei. 
Nat., Ser. 3, II., pp. 167-221, also recorded P. crenatus and 
Favolus agariceus for Ceylon ; and in 1846, in “ Descriptions 
des Champignons de I’herhier du Museum de Paris,” Ann. 
Sei. Nat., Ser. 3, V., pp. 111-167, he described Polyporus 
sericellus and P. pTiæus from Ceylon. 
About 1846 Gardner forwarded to Berkeley a consign- 
ment of 135 gatherings of fungi, which were recorded in 
Decades of Fungi, XV .-XIX., Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot., 
VI., ]3p. 479-514. Forty-three of these were Polyporoids. 
Thwaites, on succeeding Gardner in 1849, continued sending 
fungi to Berkeley, and several records of Ceylon species are to 
be found in the lists published by the latter up to 1871, in 
which year Berkeley and Broome began the publication of 
“ The Fungi of Ceylon ” in the Journal of the Linnean Society. 
This memoir was based on a large consignment from 
Thwaites, which has provided the bulk of the Ceylon fungi 
now found in European herbaria. The section dealing with the 
Polyporoids, over one hundred species, was published in 1873. 
In 1879 Cesati published an account of the fungi collected 
in Ceylon and Borneo by Beccari, and enumerated ten Poly- 
poroids from this country. After this active period of the 
seventies work ceased, and except for a few odd specimens 
collected at random, and the christening of species which 
Berkeley left unnamed, no further additions were made to our 
knowledge of Ceylon Polyporoids until the present century. 
Professor F. von Höhnel visited Ceylon in 1907, and the 
Polyporoids collected by him, about fifteen, were enumerated 
by Bresadola in Polyporaceæ Javanicæ,” Ann. Myc., X. 
(1912), pp. 492-508. Three of von Höhnel’s species had not 
been previously recorded for Ceylon. 
The present paper includes (1) a list of all the species 
previously recorded from Ceylon, with notes on the specimens 
where these are available ; and (2) a list of the species which 
have been collected in Ceylon up to the present time. In the 
compilation of both of these fists I have been greatly indebted 
to Mr. C. G. Lloyd, both for the ever ready assistance afforded 
in numerous letters, and for the critical information contained 
in his published writings. 
