ARALIACEAE. Neopanax colensoi: Taranaki, Mt. Egmont, 1,000 m. CONIFERAE. Dacrydium cupressinum: Taranaki, Mt. Egmont, 1,000 m. WINTERACEAE. Pseudowintera colorata: Auckland, Hauhangaroa Ranges, West Taupo, 1,200 m.

Hymenophore annual, membranous, loosely attached, effused forming small irregular areas 1-5 x 1-3 cm; hymenial surface ochraceous or dingy ferruginous, even, at length creviced irregularly, sometimes pruinose; margin thinning out, fibrillose, loosely attached, concolorous, rhizomorphs scanty but always present, white. Context fuscous, 120-200 µm thick, basal layer dense, of parallel hyphae, varying in thickness, intermediate layer of loosely arranged intertwined hyphae embedding masses of stellate setae; generative hyphae 3-3.5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, naked, with occasional bridging hyphae. Gloeocystidia arising in the subhymenium and projecting to 20 µm, commonly fusiform, some subclavate, apices bluntly acuminate with small acute apiculi, 40-54 x 10-22 µm. Stellate setae densely compacted, somewhat scanty near the base, to 120 µm diameter, chestnut-brown, with 4-6 naked aculeate rays, some bifid, to 64 µm long, walls to 2 µm thick. Hymenial layer to 70 µm deep, a scanty palisade of basidia, paraphyses, and gloeocystidia. Asterophyses absent. Basidia cylindrical or slightly constricted in the middle, 30-36 x 7-9 µm, bearing 4 spores; sterigmata slender, to 6 µm long. Paraphyses subclavate, 12-18 x 6-7 µm. Spores globose or subglobose, some almost pyriform, apiculate, 6-7 µm diameter, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.

DISTRIBUTION: North and South America, Porto Rico, New Zealand.

HABITAT: Effused on bark or decorticated wood of dead branches.

Specific features are the globose, smooth, strongly apiculate spores, relatively small gloeocystidia, and absence of asterophyses. Collections agree with a specimen of A. andinum examined in Kew herbarium. They differ from A. laxum Bres., which also has smooth globose spores, by the larger stellate setae and gloeocystidia and absence of asterophyses. Synonyms are given on the authority of Rogers & Jackson (1943, p. 271) who examined types of the four species listed.

TYPE LOCALITY: Quito, South America.