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FETCH : 
decurrente ; poris magnis, angulatis ; margine sterile 
lato ; stipite coneolori, irregulariter compresso, lacunoso 
ad. 7 cm. long., 1*5 cm. lat., 7 mm. crass., centrali, 
æquale vel sursum dilatato, modo basi inflato, modo 
radicante, violaceis vel purpureo-nigris setis vestito ; 
sporis albis, ovalibus, 7-9 X 5-6 
Polyporus obscurus n. sp. 
3481, Peradeniya, May, 1912, on rotten wood. 
White, resupinate over a large area, with dimidiate 
pilei at the margin. Pilei semi-elliptic, about 1*5 cm. 
long, 6 mm. broad, laterally fused, white, fibrillose, 
radially ridged, margin acute. Pores small, oval, 
about 0*15 X 0*1 mm. Resupinate parts stout, pores 
up to 3 mm. long, not splitting on drying. Basal layer 
a thin weft of hyphæ from 0* 1-0*2 mm. thick. 
Albo, resupinato, margine diroidiato ; püeis semi- 
ellipticis circa 1 * 5 cm. long., 6 mm. lat., supra fibrillosis, 
radiatim rugosis, margine acuto. Parte resupinata, 
crassa, poris ad 3 mm. long. ; poris parvis, ovalibus, 
0*15 X 0*1 mm. ; contextu tenui. 
POLYSTIOTUS. 
Polystictus xanthopus Fr. 
2429, Peradeniya, 1909 ; 2774, Peradeniya, January, 
1909 ; 3609, Peradeniya, January, 1913 ; 3835, Pera- 
deniya, June, 1913 ; 3901, Peradeniya, December, 
1913 ; 4073, Peradeniya, July, 1914 ; 4506, Peradeniya, 
November, 1914 ; 4507, January, 1915 ; 2107, Ritigala, 
March, 1905 ; 3310, Maha Iluppallama, January, 1912 ; 
2174, Polgahawela, February, 1907. 
Common in the low-country. 
Polystictus luteus Nees. 
3581, Sigiriya, August, 1912 (det. Lloyd). 
Polystictus afflnis (Bl. et Nees) Fr. 
2980, Maha Iluppallama, August, 1909 (det. Lloyd). 
Polystictus flabelliformis Kl. 
Polyporus crenatus Berk., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., X. 
(1842), pp, 369-384. 
