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FETCH : 
at the top of the hills it is generally so. Even the 
large specimens become stratose there, as shown in 
Plate XII., Circular 10, Vol. V., Root Diseases of 
Acacia decurrens. 
Polyporus cupreus Fr. 
4700, Korossa, May, 1915 (det. Lloyd). 
A thin form of F . applanatus. 
Fomes pallidus n. sp. 
2793, Colombo, February, 1909 ; 2840, Deviturai, 
April, 1908. 
Resupinate ; in large patches, usually oval, up to 
20 X 10 cm. ; lenticular in section, up to 6 mm. thick, 
stratose ; gray or pale slate -coloured, bleaching almost 
white when old. Margin thin, definite, tomentose, 
brownish-gray, blackening when old. Pores up to 
0*15 mni. diameter, circular, dark brown in section, 
usually mottled with white ingrowths. Basal layer 
thin, dark brown, or absent. 
This is a common species in the low-country. It is 
represented in Thwaites’ collection by three pieces in 
Herb. Peradeniya included under Polyporus epimiltinus 
B. & Br. 
Resupinato, stratoso, griseo, ætate pallescente ; 
margine tenui, limitato, tomentoso, brunneogriseo, 
ætate nigrescente ; poris rotundatis, ad 0*15 mm. 
diam., intus fuscobrunneo ; contextu tenui vel nullo, 
fuscobrunneo. 
Pori A. 
Poria mellea B. & Br. 
4021, Peradeniya, May, 1914 ; 4291, Peradeniya, 
November, 1914 ; 4535, Peradeniya, January, 1915. 
Sulphur yellow, margin paler ; resupinate, spreading 
in circular or elongated patches, with a more or less 
orbicularly lobed margin ; context very thin ; margin 
adpressed, about 1 mm. wide, radially tomentose ; 
pores variable, generally large, dissepiments thin and 
toothed. 
