286 MOSSES (Gepp). [Brachymenium 



16. BRACHYMENIUM Hook, ex Schwaegr. Spec. Muse. 

 Suppl. II. i. p. 131 (1824). 



1. B. angolense Jaeg. Gen. et Spec. Muse. I. p. 579 (1875). 

 Bryum {Brachymenium) angolense Welw. et Duby in Geneve, 



Mem. Soc. Phys. XXI. i. p. 219, t. i. fig. 4 (1871). 



HuiLLA. — A widely caBspitose moss ; stems very densely woven 

 together by an abundance of dark red fibrils ; leaves imbricate, 

 piliferous at apex ; capsule elliptic, dark red, borne on a straight 

 straw-coloured seta ; operculum obtusely conic, shortly mamillate ; 

 on rather old trunks of a Sapotaceous tree called by the negroes 

 "Mutambote" {Chrysopl\yllnin argyrophyllum') on the way from Morro 

 de Lopollo towards Nene, at an elevation of 5300 ft. ; with fr. at end 

 of March 18G0. No. 26. On the base of old trunks in forests, near 

 Lopollo, without fr. May 1860. No. 37- 



2. B. Welwitschii Jaeg. Gen. et Spec. Muse. I. p. 581 (1875). 

 Bryum {Brachymenium) TFeZiozfec/ai Duby in Geneve, Mem. Soc. 



Phys. XXI. i. p. 219, t. ii. fig. 3 (1871). 



PuNGO Andongo. — A flavo-virescent. widely caespitose moss of 

 splachnoid habit, growing in elevated rocky bogs ; very rare and 

 noticed by Welwitsch in one spot only, in Barranco de Catete ; with 

 fr. May 1857. No. 56. 



17. BRYUM Dill.; Br.,Sch.etGuemb.Bry.Eur. IV. (1836-51). 



1. B. coronatum Schwaegr. Sp. Muse. Suppl. I. ii. p. 103 (1816). 

 HuiLLA. — By no means common in the sLortly grassy pastures of 



Empalanca, flooded in the rainy season, at an elevation of about 

 5600 ft., on the Huilla plateau ; with fr. May 1860. No. 24. Near 

 Lopollo, April 1860. No. lb. 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — Common, but sparingly with fruit, in rifts of 

 the higher rocks of Pedras de Guinga ; March 1857. No. 59. By the 

 great cataract of the Cuanza River near Condo ; with unripe fr. 

 March 1857. No. 206. 



Island of St. Thomas. — A luxuriant form occurring on fallen 

 half-burnt half-rotten trunks in woods at an elevation of 2500 ft. in 

 the locality called " Monte Caife," growing with a sterile species of 

 Orthodnn ; with fr. Dec. 18G0. No. 126. 



Also gathered at Freetown in Sierra Leone by Vogel. 



2. B. argenteum Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 1120 (1753). 



PuNGO AxDONGO. — In wide tufts on volcanic rocks near Cabondo 

 within the prsesidium ; with fr. end of Feb. 1857. Nos. 70 and 70ft. 



3. B. squarripilum CM. in Flora LXIX. p. 280 (1886). 

 PuNGO Andongo. — In rifts of rocks at an elevation of about 4000 ft., 



Serra de Pedras de Guinga ; with immature fr. Jan. 1857. No. 63. 

 On rocks near the base of Pedra Cabonda within the praesidium, not 

 uncommon but sparingly with fr. ; Dec. 1856. No. 71- 



Huilla. — Among thickets in clayey-sandy wooded pastures near 

 MumpuUa ; end of Oct. 1859. No. 7. 



This species bear.s the name of B. argentewn var. nervosum Welw. et 

 Duby. It answers closely to C. Mtiller's description of B.{Argyrohryum) 

 sqiharripilwrn, which was gathered in St. Thomas's Island by Moller. 



4. B. csespiticium L. Sp. PI. p. 1121 (1753). 



LuNDA. — Gathered in the kingdom of Lunda, at a distance of about 



