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sublabyrinthiform, 2 mm. long. When dry, the hyménium 
is minutely tomentose, being covered everywhere with erect 
hairs, up to 50 ^ long and 5 ^ diameter, minutely verrucose. 
On rotting logs in jungle, Hakgala. 
114. — Irpex colllculosus B. & Br. 
This species was described in Fungi of Ceylon, 555, as 
“ Totus resupinatus orbicularis, demum confluens convexus 
gilvus, margine tenui subbyssoideo paliido aculeis compressis 
farinaceis. On dead wood. Forming little elevated patches, 
which at length become confluent ; hyménium sometimes 
persistently poriform, at first black-purple when moist. ” 
From the co-type in Herb. Peradeniya it appears to be resupi- 
nate, immature Trametes versatilis. 
115. — Hymenochæte floridea B. & Br. 
Thwaites 366 was listed by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi 
of Ceylon as two species, viz., Hymenochæte flor idea B. & Br. 
(619), and Thelephora floridea B. & Br. (579). The former 
was described as Resupinata, immarginata, tenuissima, 
purpureo-rubiginosa ” ; and the latter as Resupinata, tenuis, 
atropurpurea, subtiliter tomentosa, margine pallidiore vel 
obsolete.” 
There is only one specimen of Thwaites 366 in Herb. 
Peradeniya, and that is marked ‘^619 H. floridea ” ; it 
contains several pieces, which are all Hymenochæte. Massee, 
in Monograph of the Thelephoreæ, does not mention either 
species, but the type specimen of T. floridea is in Herb. Kew, 
and is marked Hymenochæte by him ; the specimens are 
Hymenochæte. It would appear, therefore, that the attribu- 
tion of Thwaites 366 to two species by Berkeley and Broome 
was a mistake. 
This species is fairly common on dead sticks and tree trunks 
at Hakgala. It is totally resupinate, effused, indeterminate, 
extremely thin, forming purple-red, oval or irregular patches, 
up to 5 cm. long and 2 cm. broad. The setæ, which are scarcely 
evident with a hand lens, are conical, yellow-brown, 30-50 (jl 
long and 7 ^ diameter at the base, projecting 15-30 ^ above 
the surface. 
