MYCOLOGICAL NOTES C. G. LLOYD Page 1032 
POLYSTiCTUS CAPERATUS PROM T. F* CHIPP, SINGAPORE (Fig.1870). 
A iorm bearing on the surface curious hydnoid processes better shown 
°^* p ^ographs (Fig. 1870) than ?>re can describe it. This is not 
the first collection with such a feature. Dr. G. Zenker sent it from 
Cameroun Africa in 1912, exactly the same thing. Nor is it a charact- 
er ei "kaer collection for in both occur specimens with even surface 
and specimens with these processes. It is exceptional for on 41 col¬ 
lections that we now have it occurs only on two, nor did we find it on 
any of the numerous specimens we saw tin the museums of Europe. 
. . P°lystictus caperatus was named by Berkeley from Mauritius. 
Type is m the British Museum. It is readily known by the dark, umber 
soft, velutinate, usually zonate surface, small pores with 
white mouths. It varies much as to surface aspect, due perhaps to age. 
Many collections (as Fig, 1872) have a uniform, velutinate, strigose 
mv 11 ^ type form (Fig, 1869 ) has conspicuous, dark metallic 
. lhese zones are prevalent on Brazilian collections and occur 
less frequently in the Eastern tropics. An unusually pubescent form 
is represented, Fig. 1871. ' J 
Most collections are thin but rigid and would be classed as 
Polystictus. One collection we have, however, is thicker, about l/2 
cm,, hard and rigid and better classed as a Trametes. The type col¬ 
lection was of this nature. Although a rather frequent species 
Polystictus caperatus has been mostly known correctly and has escaped 
the usual synonyms of common, tropical species, Polystictus myrrhinus 
as named by Kickx from Mexico is indorsed as a synonymon the label in 
Montagne’s herbarium. 
FORMS - POLYSTICTUS PHOCINUS ( Fig. 1875) is a thin, unzoned, 
velutinate form from Ceylon and we type form does not occur there. We 
have it, however, from Java, Philippines, South Africa and Brazil. 
Polystictus comatus as described by Fries from tropical America is 
doubtless the same thing though no type exists to confirm it. Poly¬ 
stictus beharensis as received by me from Miss Wakefield, Africa, is a 
subresupinate collection of Polystictus phocinus. 
POLYSTICTUS ACULEANS (Fig. 1873 ).- A form with a strongly 
fibrillose uniform surface. We recently received it from John 
Gossweiler, Angola, Africa, but it is rare, 
POLYSTICTUS FISCHERI (Fig. 1874) in the original sense of 
Hennings is not much different from the usual Polystictus caperatus. 
We apply the name, however, as a convenience to a subglabrous form 
which frequently reaches us. 
PODOCREA TRANSVAALII FROM A. M, BOTTOMLEY, SOUTH AFRICA 
(Fig. 1876 ).- Clubs fasciculate from the top of a thick, rooting 
stem, obtuse, irregular, with a light brown cortex. Stroma fleshy 
white. Perithecia globose with hyaline walls, arranged almost con¬ 
tiguous beneath the cortex. 
It appears that the rooting stem is buried, the fruit bodies 
developed on the surface of the ground. Unfortunately the specimens 
are immature, only the perithecia are developed, no asci or spores. 
It is a Hypocreaceae and if named in old times would no doubt have 
been as a Hypocrea, or Podocrea as clavate Bypocrea are now called. 
It has entirely different aspect and habits from any species describ¬ 
ed. 
