138 
FETCH : 
strigose. Pores angular, about 0*1 mm. diameter; 
dissepiments thin, appearing somewhat horny and 
translucent when dry. 
Albus, sicco flavobrunneus ; vivo aquosus, sppngio- 
sus, sicco rigidus matrice secernens. Margine albo, 
minute tomentoso, latiusculo ; usque 3 mm, crassitu- 
dine ; poris angulatis, ad 0* 1 mm. diam., intus pallido- 
brunneo ; contextu crasso, compacte, fuscobrunneo ; 
inferiore fuscobrunneo, strigoso. 
Poria gilvoides n. sp. 
2884, Peradeniya, July, 1909, on a dead branch. 
Resupinate, up to 16 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, yellow- 
brown, with a paler tawny margin, becoming ferrugi- 
nous brown when old. Thickness about 1 mm. ; basal 
layer about 0*1 mm. thick, yellow-brown. Margin 
narrow, tomentose. Pores angular, 0* 12-0 *25 mm. 
diameter, dissepiments thin. No setæ. 
Resupinato, ad 16 cm. long., 2 cm. lat., flavobrumieo, 
margine fulvo, ætate ferrugineobrunneo, ad 1 mm. 
crassitudine ; margine angusto, toinentoso ; poris an- 
gulatis, 0* 12-0*25 mm. diam., dissepimentibus tenui- 
bus ; contextu ad 0*1 mm. crassitudine, flavobrunneo. 
Poria purpureogilva n. sp. 
4688, Peradeniya, April, 1915, on a dead branch. 
In patches up to 6 X 2 cm., grayish-purple ; margin 
purple-brown, sub vertical, glabrous. Thickness about 
1 mm. ; internally yellow-brown. Pores minute, 
rounded, about 0* 1 mm. diameter. Basal layer up to 
0*2 mm. thick, yellow-brown. Setæ in the pores, 
conical, or cylindric below and tapering above, acute, 
yellow-brown, 16-32 X 6 [x. 
Griseo-purpureo ; margine purpureo-brunneo, glabro, 
subdirecto ; circa 1 mm. crass. ; intus flavobrunneo ; 
poris parvis, rotundatis, circa 0* 1 mm. diam., setiferis, 
setis acutis, conicis, flavobrunneis, 16-32 x 6 ; 
contextu ad 0*2 mm. crassitudine, flavobrunneo. 
Poria aquosa n. sp. 
Poria vapor aria B. & Br., non Fr., Fungi of Ceylon, 497. 
