290 MOSSES (Gepp). [Fissideng 



PuNGO Andongo. — Tufts 1 to 3 ft. in diameter, indeed covering the 

 whole vertical face of a great rock, but lax and fragile ; at the base of 

 the gigantic rocks of Cabonda ; with fr. middle of Jan. and middle of 

 March 1857. No. 69. 



6. F. Dubyanus Jaeg. Gen. et Spec. Muse. p. 23 (1876). 



F. macropJiTjllus Welw. et Dubv in Geneve, Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 XXI. i. p. 223 t. iii. fig. 3 (1871)." 



GoLUNGO Alto. — On very shaded clayey soil in road-cuttings between 

 Bango and Bumba ; with unripe fr. Jan. 1856. No. 136. 



To the present genus belong the following numbers : — 



PuNcio Andongo.- — In company with Octohlephariiia albidum, rather 

 sparingly on wet rocks by rivulets in Barranco de Pedra Songue, 

 originally with an old theca or two, now lost ; middle of May 1857. 

 No. 68- On .spongy-wet mossy ground, sparingly interwoven with 

 other mosses ; Barrancos de Catete ; with fr. middle of May 1857. 

 No. 202. Imperfect specimens of two species growing with Hookeria 

 angolen.'<fs (No. 108) on moist ground shaded by Cyathea angolensis 

 alongside rivulets and springs in Barranco da Pedra de S. Antonio ; 

 middle of May 1857. No. 109. 



21. OCTODICERAS Brid. Muse. Eecent. Suppl. III. i. p. 162 



(1806). 



1. 0. capense Jaeg. et Sauerb. Gen. et Spec. Muse. II. p. 51 (1876). 



Gonomitriimi cape^ise 0. Muell. Synops. II. p. 524 (1851). 



Bumbo. — Plentiful in very cold rivulets and springs at Arreial de 

 Caionda, and observed elsewhere throughout this region ; on the 

 highest peaks of Serra da Xella, and gathered in a nice state of fruit 

 in the Fonte de Caionda at an elevation of 4000 ft. ; Oct. 1859, also 

 June 1860. No. 2. 



MosSAMEDES. — In rivulets, Serra da Xella ; with fr. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 335. 



Welwitsch paid much attention to this species. He considered that 

 it differs from 0. Julianum, which is common in Portugal, only in its 

 somewhat more acute leaves, with nerve usually vanishing at two- 

 thirds the leaf's length and not just below the apex, and in its rather 

 larger capsule. The African plant has its older stems compressed, 

 almost complanate, nigrescent. He observed the operculum of several 

 capsules to be not conical but depresso-hemispherical, its rostrum 

 becoming more equally cylindrical and not conical at the base ; but 

 after examining more than twenty capsules in different stages of ripen- 

 ing, he was constrained to modify his view as to this variation of form 

 or proportion, the normal operculum being formed almost or indeed 

 exactly as in 0. Julianum. 



22. RACOPILUM Pal.-Beauv. Prodr. p. 36 (1805). 

 Ehacopilimi C. Muell. et aliorum. 



1. R. tomentosum Brid. Bry. Univ. II. p. 719 (1827). 



Hypnum tomentosum Sw. Prodr. p. 141 (1788); Hedw. Muse. 

 Frond, iv. p. 48. t. 19 (1791). H. mucronatumV&\.-^eai,\\v. Prodr. 

 p. 66 (1805). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Growing in company with Hepatics on rocks by 

 the banks of the Cuango stream, but in this situation seldom bearing 

 fruit ; with fr. June 1856. No. 165. On trunks of old trees by the 



