CEYLON LENTINI. 
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(up to 3 mm.), decurrent, edge naked. Stalk white, blacken- 
ing at the base, about half the total height of the fungus, up 
to 5 mm. diameter, usually squarrose, sometimes almost 
smooth. Spores white, narrow oval, 6-9 X 2-3 pi. 
Common on logs and stumps at Peradeniya and in the 
low-country. 
Lentinus percomis B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 402. 
Up to 7 cm. diameter and 7 cm. high, infund ibuliform, 
feebly radially sulcate, at first purple or reddish -purple, 
becoming pale ochraceous or cream-coloured, glabrous, margin 
ciliate or almost naked. Gills decurrent, purple, then cream- 
coloured, moderately broad, rather distant. Stalk up to 2 cm. 
high, 6 mm. diameter, clothed with spongy tomentum, or 
minutely scurf y-tomentose. 
Hakgala, on fallen trunks, fairly common. 
Lentinus Lecomtei Fr., Epier., p. 368. 
Centrally stalked, deeply infundibuliform to almost plane, 
or laterally stalked, orbicular to reniform, usually growing 
in tufts, connate at the base. Pileus up to 11 cm. diameter ; 
at first violet or violet-purple, becoming brown, yellow-brown, 
or pale ochraceous ; densely clothed with erect hairs which 
form fasciculate spine-like tufts at the margin ; margin regular 
or lobed. On young examples, the hairs are white, but become 
yellow-brown later. Gills decurrent, violet then pale ochra- 
ceous, crowded, rather broad (up to 3 mm.). Stalk usually 
short and stout, about 1 cm. long, and 6-8 mm. diameter, 
densely strigose. Spores oval, 6-7 X 3 faintly yellow. 
Common at Peradeniya on decaying stumps. 
Lentinus Hookerianus Berk., Decades of Fungi, 322. 
Lentinus zonifer B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 413. 
Up to 5 cm. diameter, and 7 cm. high.' Infundibuliform, 
sometimes lobed, covered with erect bristly fascicles of brown 
hairs, chocolate-brown. Gills at first purple, then pallid, 
finally brown, da^rk when dry, crowded, very narrow, deourrent. 
Stalk comparatively long and thin, up to 5 cm. high, 4 mm. 
diameter, clothed as the pileus. Spores white, oval, 5-6 X 
3-3*5^. 
On stumps and fallen logs, Peradeniya, Gallawatta, &c. 
The form named L. zonifer is concentrically depressed or 
