Ceylon Lentinl. 
BY 
T. FETCH, B.A., B.Sc. 
TTT HEN König visited Ceylon in 1777-81, he gathered, 
^ ^ an^ong other fungi, a Lmtinus, which Berkeley, sixty 
years later, assigned to Lentinus connatus (Ann. Nat. Hist., X. 
(1842), pp. 369-384), the latter being a Philippine species 
which Berkeley had recently described. Specimens of this 
gathering are in the herbaria of the British Museum and Kew, 
and these support Berkeley’s identification. 
In the collection sent from Ceylon by Gardner, and described 
by Berkeley in Decades of Fungi, XV .-XIX. (Hook. Bond. 
Jour. Bot., VI., pp. 479-514), there were five white Lentini, 
viz., L. revelatus n. sp., L. subnudus n. sp., L. pergameneus 
Lév., L, inconspicuus, and L, exilis Klotzsch. 
The type of L. revelatus, Gardner 117, Herb. Kew, is L. 
connatus. L. subnudus, Gardner 116, type in Herb. Kew, 
had not been previously described from Ceylon. The speci- 
mens assigned to ‘‘ L. pergameneus,'^ now in Herb. Kew, are 
L. subnudus. L. inconspicuus, Talagalla, Gardner,” without 
any number, type in Herb. Kew, is also L. subnudus. Gardner 
107, two sheets in Herb. Kew, said to be allied to L. antJio- 
cephalus, but injured by insects, is, as far as can be determined, 
L. subnudus. The specimens assigned to L. exilis Klotzsch, 
Gardner 67 and 81, are in each case identical with L. sajor- 
caju Fr. 
Twenty years later, Berkeley and Broome examined and 
described the large collection forwarded by Thwaites. They 
found only one of the six species previously recorded, viz., 
L. exilis, but they described as new the following closely 
allied species, L. velatus, L. multiformis, L. cretaceus, L. infundi- 
buliformis, L. manipularis, L. lobatus, and L. apalus. It will 
be convenient to consider these under Thwaites’ numbers. 
L. velatus is Thwaites 1057. From the figure and specimen 
it was evidently quite immature, the pileus having just begun 
Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Vol. VI., Part II., Nov., 1916. 
