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species has a long rooting base, and when sent by Thwaites 
was re-named L. mdimns B. & Br. (see Ann. Perad., V., p. 273). 
The specimens collected by Thwaites and assigned by 
Berkeley and Broome to L. hlej)harodes B. & C. are not 
that species, but are identical with L. similis B. & Br. 
Similarly, the Ceylon specimens assigned to L. badius are 
L. similis B. & Br., and differ from the original L. badius 
from the Philippines (see Ann. Perad., V., p. 274). 
Gardner 18 assigned to L. strigosus Fr., and Gardner 1 and 
13, named L. Lecomtei Fr., are the same species. When sent 
by Thwaites, this species v/as again attributed to L. Lecomtei. 
It seems to be now generally held that this species is identical 
with Panus rudis, but this determination would appear 
doubtful. 
L. cartilagineus B. is identical with Collybia albuminosa 
(Berk.) Fetch. L. percomis B. & Br. is distinct from all the 
other Lentini recorded from Ceylon. 
Fron^ the herbarium specimens, L. eximius B. & Br. is 
identical with L. estriatus B. & Br. There is another collection 
of the same species in Herb. Kew labelled Lentinus 
Thwaitesii B. & Br. by Berkeley ; apparently this name was 
never published. 
There is apparently no type specimen of L. zonifer B. & Br. 
either in Herb. Kew or in Herb. British Museum. Herb. 
Peradeniya contains both L. zonifer B. & Br. and the Ceylon 
specimens attributed to L. HooTcerianus B. These were part 
of the same Thwaites’ number, 532, and are the same species. 
It appears to be A. Hookerianus . 
Lentinus giganteus Berk., Decades of Fungi, 162. 
L. stenophyllus Berk., Hook. Bond. Jour. Bot. (1847), 
p.495; L. obnubilus Berk., loc.cit.,-p. 4:96 ; L.maculatus Berk., 
loc. cit., p. 494 ; L. radicans B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 416. 
When unexpanded, wholly black, except the subterranean 
rooting base, the convex pileus covered with scattered black 
fibrillose scales. Universal veil black, remaining attached 
in fragments to the margin for some time. When expanded, 
typically infundibuliform, up to 30 cm. in diameter and 28 cm. 
high, rarely plane, sometimes campanulate. Pileus ochra- 
ceous or yellow-brown, covered with blackish -brown squamules, 
