CEYLON POLYPORI. 
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pileus ; depth of pores 5 mm., mouths strongly toothed 
and irregular, medium size, 
I have seen only one specimen of this, which was 
brought to me in 1907. Mr. Lloyd, who saw it at Kew 
in 1911, informed me then that it was an unnamed 
species. 
Pileo rotund o, convexo, 13 cm. diam., tomento 
griseo-albo, erecto, fasciculate, sicco fusco-griseo, dense 
vestito, margine incurvo ; carne albo, spongioso, 
crasso ; stipite centrah, sursum in pileo dilatato, 
sordide albo, intus spongioso, extra lento ; hymenio 
albo, piano, in stipite decurrente ; poris dentatis, 
irregularibus, ad 5 mm. long., mediocribus. 
Polyporus violaceo-cinerascens n. sp. 
2678, Peradeniya, October, 1908 ; 2845, Peradeniya, 
May, 1909. 
Mesopodial. At first violet or purple, becoming 
ashy or pale brown when old.' Pileus circular, 
up to 11 cm,, diameter, strongly lobed, centre 
depressed and irregularly nodulose, obscurely zoned, 
minutely tomentose, subcartilaginous, tough. Flesh 
thin, brownish- white. Pore surface white, then 
violet, descending irregularly on the stem ; pores large, 
up to 0*75 mm. diam,eter, angular ; with a broad sterile 
margin. Stalk of the same colour and texture as the 
pileus, irregularly compressed and lacunose, up to 
7 cm. high, 1*5 cm. broad, 7 m,m.. thick, central, equal 
or expanding upwards, sometimes bulbous at the base, 
V sometimes rooting, clothed with violet or purple-black 
bristles. Spores white, broadly oval, 7-9 x 5-6 
In rings among grass, probably from buried wood. 
Shown in 1911 to Mr. Lloyd, who informed me that it 
was then undescribed. 
Mesopus ; primo violaceus vel purpureus, deinde 
cinereus vel pallide brunneus. Pileo rotundo, ad 
11 cm. diam., lobato, centro depresso, irregulariter 
noduloso, obscure zonato, subtiliter tomentoso, sub- 
cartilagineo, lento ; carne tenui, brunneo-albo ; 
hymenio albo, deinde violaceo, in stipite irregulariter 
