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rather tuberous, velvety ; pores decurrent, large, angular, tliin, at 
length torn, cinnamon. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
b. Sacri. Pileus coriaceous or papery , dry, zoned ; stem with an 
encrusted bark. 
731. Polystictus quadrans. B. § Br. Linn. Trans, i., 
1879, 400. 
Pileus rigid, smooth, thin, sulcate, zoned, dark ochraceous ; 
margin brown (l-ll c.m. diam.) ; stem short, excentric, of the 
same colour as the pileus ; pores minute, round, paler. 
On wood. Queensland. 
732. Polystictus xanthopus. Fries Epicr. 437. Sacc. Syll. 
vi., 5565.=P. cupreo-nitens. Kalch. Myc. Univ. No. 1702. 
Pileus coriaceous, papery, infundibuliform, rather oblique, even 
or rugose, smooth, zoned, shining, bay-brown (4-6 c.m. broad) ; 
stem short, smooth, shining, yellowish (5-10 m.m. long), dilated at 
the base ; pores small, rounded. 
On branches. Victoria. Queensland. N.S.Wales. New 
Guinea. 
c. Disoipedes. Pileus coriaceous, somewhat kidney-shaped, zoned,. 
stem lateral (sometimes elongated), usually very short, dilated 
into a disc at the base. 
* Dilatati. Pileus dry. 
733. Polystictus flabelliformis. Klotsch. Linn, vm., 483. 
iSacc. Syll. vi., 5569. 
Pileus between coriaceous and membranaceous, plane, then de- 
pressed, zoned, clad with a dingy evanescent tomentum, becoming 
smooth, somewhat bay-brown (4-10 c.m. broad) ; stem very short, 
lateral, abruptly black at the base, pores minute, rounded, whitish. 
On dead wood. Victoria. Queensland. N.S.Wales. Fiji. 
N. Caledonia. 
734. Polystictus porphyrites. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1856, 
196. Sacc. Syll. 5571. 
Thin, coriaceous ; pileus flabelliform, with ochraceous zones, 
shining brown, becoming purplish (5 c.m. and more broad), margin 
thin ; stem short, almost of the same colour (8-9 m.m. long), even ; 
hymenium pallid, pores minute, rather angular. 
On rotting branches. Queensland. 
735. Polystictus Adami. Cooke Enum. Poly. 137. Sacc. 
Syll. vi., 5572.=Polyporus dilatatus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1847, 
499, not Leveille. 
Pileus lateral, spathnlate, thin, coriaceous, zoned, becoming 
smooth, bay-brown (8 c.m. broad, 3^-4 c.m. long) ; stem long, 
dilated upwards, mealy, yellow (4-4J c.m. long), hymenium deter- 
minate, pallid ; pores minute. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. N.S.Wales. 
