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FETCH : 
Polyporus ochroleucus Berk. 
3447, Hakgala, May, 1912 (det. Lloyd); 2970, 
Hapugastenna, October, 1909 ; 2684, Hakgala, Sep- 
tember, 1908 ; 3154, Hakgala, May, 1910 ; 3975, 
Hakgala, April, 1914 ; 4144, Hakgala, September, 1914 ; 
4717, Hakgala, April 1915 ; 4086, Peradeniya, August, 
1914 ; 4738, Peradeniya, June 1915. 
Common at Hakgala ; usually pendent from com- 
paratively thin branches or stems. 
Polyporus obtusus Berk._ 
3551, Peradeniya, August, 1912 (det. Lloyd). 
Pure white when fresh. 
Polyporus hydnophorus B. & Br. 
Polyporus iBesupinali) hydnophorus B. Br., Fungi 
of Ceylon, 504. 
4225, Peradeniya, October, 1914 ; 4374, Peradeniya, 
1912. 
Dimidiate, deciirrent behind. PiJei narrow orbicular, 
about 2 cm. long, 0*5 cm. broad, confluent; white, 
becoming ochraceous when old. Upper surface strigose, 
or bearing erect, Stilbum-like processes. Pores up to 
3 mm. deep, dissepiments at first thick, becoming thin, 
irregular. Pores about 0 * 2 mm. diameter, but variable, 
up to 1 mm. Substance soft. Frequently forming 
pulvinate cushions, circular, up to 1 cm. diameter, or 
linear when emerging from cracks in the bark ; margin 
tomentose ; these cushions may bear pores in the 
centre and stilboid processes towards the margin, or 
may be covered with stilboid processes only. These 
processes are clavate, up to 0*5 mm. high, 0*1 mm. 
diameter below, 0*2 min. diameter above; stalks 
tomentose ; head bearing simple basidia with oval, 
pointed conidia, 8-12 x 5 [l. 
In cases where the fungus has emerged from a crack 
hi the bark of a branch, and the bark has subsequently 
fallen off and exposed the thin film of mycelium which 
overlies the wood, this mycelium produces the Stilbum 
conidial form in abundance. 
