230 
Balance Sheet. 
As on 29th February, 190S. 
Cash in Chartered Bank of I. A. C. 
Balance as per expenditure and receipts a/c 
Total 
G. V. L. Scott, Secretary. 
Liabilities. Assets. 
460 66 
• •• 460 66 
460 66 460 66 
FUNGUS INSIDE A BAMBOO. 
While cutting dead stems of a Bamboo in the Botanic Gardens 
Singapore, one joint of a dead but not rotten culm was found to be 
lined inside with a leathery mass of a kaki colour. The hollow space 
was completely covered by a tube of this substance 1 of an inch or 
more thick, firm and leathery-and detached like a cylinder exactly 
fitting the hollow of the Bamboo. A small specimen of a Polystictus 
was found growing on the outside of a bamboo on the clump, and this 
and the mat of mycelium inside were sent to Kew. 
Mr. G. Massee reports on the specimens. “The fungus is Polys- 
tictus Occident ahs, IUotsch. and the mycelium belongs to it as proved 
by examination of specimens in the herbarium. P. occidentalis is 
cosmopolitan in the warmer regions, notwithstanding its specific 
name. 
MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF TIJE MALAY 
PENINSULA. 
Ibexes to the three volumes of Monocotyledons of the 
Malay peninsula are now printed and can be had free by purchasers 
of the volumes on application to the Editor. 
H. N. Bidley. 
