CEYLON POLYPORI. 
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Fomes lucidus (Leys.) Fr. 
2839, Mirigama, March, 1909 ; 3390, Maha Ilup- 
pallama, December, 1911 ; 3391, Kandy, January, 1912 
(det. Lloyd) ; 4523, Peradeniya, February, 1915 ; 2979, 
Maha Iluppallama, August, 1909 ; 2927, Culloden, 
August, 1909 (det. Lloyd), &c. 
One of our commonest species. Always stalked, but 
varying greatly in the length and breadth of the stalk. 
The thin-stalked forms, after the j^attern of P. rugosus, 
are often found growing in bamboo clumps, and are 
called Una Bimmal, the bamboo fungus, by the 
Sinhalese. In the more massive forms the stalk is 
reduced to a broad base several inches in diameter, but 
only an inch or less in height. My largest specimen 
(3389, Peradeniya) measures 50 x 42 cm. Specimens 
2927 from Culloden are exactly the shape of Polyporus 
fornicatus ; they were dull red-brown, not shining, 
when fresh ; stalk and pileus unicolorous. 
Fomes PetcMi Lloyd. 
3238, Hakgala, May, 1910. 
Specimen sent to Lloyd as ‘‘ Fomes Ivxidus peren- 
nial.” This form occurs at Hakgala (5,600 feet). The 
stalk is lateral, as in Fomes lucidus 2927 (see above). 
It differs from F. lucidus in being perennial, with a 
vertical ridged margin, exactly as F. annularis differs 
from F . applamatus. 
Fomes applanatus Pers. 
3751, Peradeniya, September, 1913 ; 3471, Hakgala, 
May, 1912 ; 2728, Hakgala, September, 1908 ; 2729, 
2730, Peradeniya, October, 1908. 
Extremely common and highly variable in shape. 
Stalked forms, matching P. gibhosus Nees, are frequent, 
but Nees’ figure shows setæ in the pores (?). 
Fomes annularis Lloyd. 
This form occurs at Hakgala, the specimens being 
sometimes about 8 inches in diameter and a foot thick. 
We take it to be a stratose form of F . applanatus. F , 
applanatus is rarely stratose at lower elevations, but 
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