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FETCH : 
occurs in abundance on the fallen flowers of Artocarpus 
integrifoUa. In Ceylon morphologically identical species 
have been “found on ripe plantains (bananas) and on drying 
copra (the “ kernel ” of the coconut). 
214. — Cyphella reticulata B. & Br. 
This was described by Berkeley and Broome in Fungi of 
Ceylon, 667, “ Pallida brevis erecta vel decumbens massam 
reticulatam polyporoideam simulans (Nos. 265, 958). On 
dead wood.” 
Part of the type specimen is in Herb. Peradeniya, and fresh 
specimens have been collected. The individual cups are 
either peziziform, up to 0*2 mm. diameter, or tubular, up to 
1 mm. high, 0 *2 mm. diameter, or infundibuliform, up to 1 mm. 
high, 0*2 mm. diameter below, 0*8 mm. diameter above. 
The margin is indexed at first. They are white, with a 
powdery outer layer, but pale yellow internally and beneath 
the powdery layer. In old weathered specimens and the old 
herbarium specimens the white layer has usually disappeared, 
and the cups are then yellow, and somewhat translucent. 
The basidia are clavate, about 15 X 6 and the spores 
hyaline, oval, 4-6 X 3-4 When growing close together, 
the cups coalesce, and form a Poria-like fructification, with 
irregular “ pores,” varying from 0*2 to 0*8 mm. in diameter. 
