CEYLON POLYPORI 
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One of our commonest Polyporoids. Records of 
Trametes cinnabarina from the tropics appear to relate 
to thick or misshapen specimens of sanguineus ; the 
Ceylon specimens under the two names are 
indistinguishable. White specimens, i.e., fresh, not 
old and bleached, occur with the normal form. 
Polyporus udus Jungh. 
4662, Peradeniya, May, 1915 (det. Lloyd) ; 4364, 
Peradeniya, December, 1914. 
Brownish-gray, with scattered, irregular, purple- 
brown spots ; or sordid brown, with radial irregular, 
black-brown streaks. Flesh white, more than 1 cm. 
thick in the centre ; hyménium pallid, subtranslucent. 
Spores white, oblong-oval, 10-13 X 5-6 ^ ; basidia 
4-spored ; sterigmata up to 8 long, conical. Soft and 
watery, becoming membranous when dried. 
Polyporus rhipidium Berk. 
3557, Peradeniya, August, 1912 ; 4174, Peradeniya, 
October, 1914. AVhite at first. 
Polyporus dictyopus Mont. 
Polyporus picipes Fr., in B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 
442. 
2809, 2810, 2689, 3732, 4045, 4495, all from Hakgala. 
3472, Hakgala, May, 1912 (det. Lloyd as P. 
Blanchetianus ) . 
I find this chiefly up-country. The pileus is at first 
white, then yellow-brown to chestnut, finally black. 
The specimen determined as P. Blanchetianus was a 
small example of the normal form. It varies in 
diameter from 1-10 cm. 
Polyporus hemicapnodes B. & Br. 
2710, Hakgala, September, 1908. 
Cartilaginous, deeply umbilicate, or infundibuliform, 
margin incurved, pale ochraceous brown, smooth. 
Pore surface white, turning brown when bruised ; pores 
minute. Stalk black-brown, slightly tomentose, base 
expanded or not. My specimens are not “ primum 
mimitissime sericeo-lineato.” 
