Revisions of Ceylon Fungi, 
(PART IV.) 
BY 
T. FETCH, B.A., B.Sc. 
107. — Panus melanophyllus Fr. 
N The Fungi of Ceylon ” Berkeley and Brooni,e recorded 
-JL Xerotus Bertierii Mont. ” on dead wood, Hakgala, and 
Xerotus lateritius B. & C. on dead wood, Peradeniya, February, 
1869 ; and Beccari, when passing through Ceylon, gathered 
a fungus, for which Cesati instituted the new genus Anihra- 
cophyllum, the species being A. Beccarianum. 
Cesati’s genus was characterized as follows : — “ Genus 
Marasmius affine, hymenio extus intusque nigrescenti, lamellis 
arescentibus, exsiccatione immutatis et ipsi cultro duris 
cornels. Pileus suborbicularis sessilis, vix pollicaris dianxetri, 
sat explanatus, supra sulcatus (more Schizophylli) fulvellus 
adustus et fere pulverulentus ; lamellæ distantes, acie acuta, 
integerrimæ, inæquales, 2-3 mill, latæ, attingentes, ad centrum 
attenuatæ.” 
In Fungi Macowaniani (Grevillea, IX., p. 137), Kalchbrenner 
adopted Cesati’s genus and species, but changed the name to 
Anthracophyllum nigrita on the ground that Cesati’s Anihra- 
cophyllum Beccarianum was identical with Xerotus nigrita 
Lév. He gives the synonymy Anihracophyllum nigrita (Lév.) 
Kalch. = Panus melanophyllus Fr. == Xerotus nigrita Lév. = 
Anthracophyllum Beccarianum Ces. It had been previously 
stated by Fries (Novæ Symbolæ Mycologicæ, p. 41) that if the 
specimen supplied to him was authentic, Xerotus nigrita Lév. 
was not different from Panus melanophyllus. 
According to Kalchbrenner, the spores were black, and 
therefore the fungus could not be included under Panus 
or Xerotus ; the pileus was “ sulcis parallelis, ad modum 
Schizophylli in lobos radiantibus ornatus.” 
Annals of the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Vol. VI., Part II., Nov., 1916. 
