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FETCH : 
Polyporus zonalis Berk. 
Polyporus cartilagineus B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 
459 ; Polyporus (Besupinati) epilinfeus B. & Br., 
Fungi of Ceylon, 509. 
2685, October, 1908, May, 1909 ; 3295, December, 
1911 ; 4236, November, 1914 ; 4484, January, 1915 ; 
all Peradeniya. 
Common throughout the low-country. The pilei 
develop on anything that comes in the way of the 
mycelium, even on bricks. Easily distinguished from 
Pomes lignosus, when fresh, by the livid gray, sometimes 
pallid, hyménium, and by the upper surface being 
wood colour or reddish when wet, instead of the deep 
red-brown of Pomes lignosus. 
Polyporus rug^losus Lév., recorded by Bresadola as 
collected by von Höhnel at Peradeniya, is stated by 
Lloyd to be usually applied to a thin form of P. zonalis. 
This form is apparently abundant in Malaya, but we 
have not collected it in Ceylon 
Polyporus strigatus Berk. 
Not collected recently .- 
Polyporus semilaccatus Berk. 
2967, Hapugastenna, October, 1909 (det. Lloyd) ; 
3754, Moratuwa, September, 1913 (det. Lloyd) ; 3441, 
Hakgala, May, 1912 (det. Lloyd). 
At first grayish -white or grayish -brown, with faintly 
brown zones, minutely tomentose ; gradually becoming 
almost entirely purple-brown or blockish -brown, and 
glabrous, sometimes a few grayish zones persisting. 
Hymenium white, becoming ochraceous ; substance 
white. The Hakgala specimen had, when young, a 
yellow margin, followed by a red-brown zone, then 
reddish -purple to purple -black ; it is possibly a different 
species. 
Polyporus anebus Berk. 
Polyporus bicolor Jungh. Polyporus polytropus B. 
& Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 455. 
