CEYLON FUNGI. 
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Centro viridi, olivaceo-viridi, vel olivaceo-brunneo, glauco, 
zonis flavo-viridi et flavo cincto ; margine albo, floccoso. 
Ætate flavo vel brunneo. Contextu albo, tenüi ; superflcei 
æquali. Sporis ovalibus, levibus, pallide flavo -brunneis, 
coacervatis fusco -brunneis, 8-10 x 5-6 (j.. 
Thelephoraceæ. 
Thelephora terrestris Ehrh. 
' Common at Hakgala in one locality, perhaps introduced, 
December, 1905, &c. 
Skepperia zeylanica n. sp. 
Stalked, orbicular, auricular, or spathulate, up to 5 mm. 
high and broad. Margin at first strongly incurved, so that 
the pileus appears infundibuliform but split down one side ; 
finally plane or reflexed, white, waxy, translucent, brown 
when old. Stalk 0*5-3 mm. high, 0*3 mm. diameter, 
yellow-brown, translucent, blackening when old, sometimes 
slightly fibrillose at the base. Stalk and pileus covered with 
hyaline cystidia, consisting of a fusoid or cylindrical stalk, 
50 (j. long, 4-6 [JL diameter, with a globose, slightly flattened 
head up to 10 [i diameter, stalk and head rough with minute 
conical warts. Basidiaclavate, four-spored, 40 X 7 Spores 
oval, inequilateral, 7-10 X .4-5 (i. On decaying fronds of 
Oncosperma, Peradeniya, July, 1909 ; No. 2894 in Herb. 
Peradeniya. 
Stipitata, orbicularis, auricularis, vel spathulata, ad 5 mm. 
alt. et lat. ; margine primo valde involuto, dein pileo piano 
vel reflexo, albo, ceraceo, pellucido, ætate brunneo ; stipite 
0*5-3 mm. alt., 0*3 mm. diam., flavo -brunneo, pellucido, 
ætate nigrescenti, interdum basi fibrilloso ; toto fungillo 
cystidiis hyalinis induto ; cystidiis stipite fusoideo vel cylin- 
draceo, 50 long., 4-6 (jl diam., capite globoso, subappla- 
nato, ad 10 (x diam., verrucis minutis conicis asperis ; 
basidiis clavatis, 4-sporis, 40 x 7 [x ; sporis ovalibus, inæqui- 
lateralibus, 7-10 X 4*5 
Exobasidium indicum Syd. & Butl. 
On Symplocos sp., Hakgala, May, 1912. 
