302 MR. W. MITTEN ON MOSSES AND 



Pragmentaiy specimens of several other species of tliis genus 

 were collected during the first journey, but all too small in 

 quantity to determine. 



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Oncophoeijs, Brid. 



O. (§ Euabdoweista) ctathicaepus (Zygodon, Mont.). 



Sah. Kilimanjaro, Mr. H. _5". Johnston, No. 12, with fruit. 

 Under 8000 feet without fruit, Bishop JEannington. 



This Moss appears to inhabit the w^hole of Africa where there 

 are suitable mountain-regions. 



ScHiSTOMiTEirM, Bozy et Molh. 



S. ACUTiEOLiUM, sp. u. Csespitosum, humile densifolium ; 

 folia patentia recta secundave abasi ovali concava, lamina utraque 

 e cellulis tribus lata inde marginibus incurvis subulato canalicu- 

 late, apice excavata mucrone parvo angusto terminata Isevia inte- 

 gerrima, perichsetialia caulinis longiora subulata obscuriora. 



Sab. TJsagara Mountains, Bishop BLannington and Mr, Last. 

 Natal, Mrs. Saunders. Madagascar, Br. Meller. 



1 vix 3 mm. latus. Folia superiora 

 glaueo-viridia, inferiora albescentia, 2 mm. longa. 



Similar to S. cucuUattim, Thw. et Mitt., but with more subulate 



contracted leaves. 



All the species yet known to belong to this genus agree very 

 closely in the form of their leaves and in their having a mucro- 

 nate point. >S^. apiculatum and S. rohustum have been figured 

 with fructification, which is absent in S. cucullatum and in S, acu- 

 tifolium, although in the last perichaetia at the apices of some of 

 the stems are present. The gepus, so far as known, seems re- 

 stricted to the Indian Archipelago, Ceylon, and Tropical Africa, 

 and, beside those mentioned, must include another gathered on 

 Kina Balu by Mr. Low ; 



S. Lowii, sp. n. Eolia secunda falcatave dense inserta oblongo- 

 lanceolata concava inferne limbo e seriebus cellularum oblongarum 

 4-marginata inde marginibus incurvis canaliculata, apice abrupte 

 excavato, apiculo parvo terminata Isevia perichsetialia vix diversa ; 

 theca in pedunculo gracili aurantiaco leevi cylindracea, calyptra 

 basi fimbriis divergentibus. 



This is a little less than S. rohustum, and thus much larger 

 than ;S'. apiculatv/in or S. acutifolium^ 



