290 MOSSES (Gepp). [Hookerin 



cells and geminate apical teeth. They belong to that section of the 

 genus Hoohcria which Hampe has called LanipmphylJum^ in Kjobenhavn 

 Vidensk. Meddel. 1874, 9, p. 158. Other species which belong to this 

 section are //. Pappeann Hampe, //. macrdjjyxis Rehm. (Musci Austro- 

 Afric. nos. 339, 023), H. utaramimdkma Mont., //. accitnda Griff., 

 H. macrnpus Doz. et Molk., //. nltens Hornsch., H. Glaziovil Hampe, 

 H. hreviscta Hampe, and probably Lcpidopihiin clevexum Mitt. 



31. FABRONIA Raddi in Att. d. Accad. d, Scienz. di Siena ix. 

 p. 231 (1808). 



1. F. angolensis Welw. et Duby in Geneve, Mem. Sec. Phys. 

 XXI. ii. p. 425. t. i. fig. 3 (1872). 



PuNCio Andonco. — A moss of a most beautiful green colour during 

 life, but turning pale when dried. Common on the aerial roots of 

 Tlariiita imrasitica on the highest western rocks of the prfesidium at an 

 elevation of about 3800 to 4000 ft. on Pedra Cabonda, also on lichenous 

 ground : with ripe fr., and occasionally young calyptras, towards the 

 end of May 1857. No. 72. 



Var. acuminata Gepp. var. nov. 



Leaves acuminate not piliform-acuminate. 



PuNOo Andongo. — A small whitish-green moss, widely cajspitose, 

 very rarely fruiting. Common on old palm-trunks (Elceis (luhiconsis), 

 but only in the neighbourhood of Candumba in open woods by the 

 river Cuanza ; with fr. March 1857. No. 74. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small moss growing with Octohle.plumim alhidum 

 on trunks of palms (Elwis) on the lower slopes of the mountains of 

 Alta Queta ; without fr. Dec. 1854. No. 197- 



32. ANACAMPTODON Brid. Mant. Muse. p. 136 (1819). 



1. A. fabronioides Welw. et Duby in Geneve, Mem. Sec. Phys. 

 XXI. ii. p. 426. t. i. fig. 5 (1872). 



GoLi'NGo Alto. — A tender, widely coespitose, flavescent-green moss, 

 growing on bark and seldom producing fruit. On old trunks of 

 Moiiddn/ri Mi/rlstica Dun. near the rivulet of Quibolo in Queta ; with 

 fr. end of July 185G. No. 157- On the bark of trees {}fnnodora 

 Myrhtica) in the dense woods of Capopa ; with fr. Feb. 1856. No. 157^'- 

 On the' ground in the coffee-yielding woods of Cungulungulo, but 

 seldom met with ; without fr. Feb. 1855. No. 190. 



Cazex(;(). — A small creeping moss of Fabronioid habit, but with 

 double peristome. On trunks beside the river Muxaula on the Serra 

 de Muxaula ; a few specimens with old fr. Jan. 1855. No. 186. 



33. THUIDIUM Schimp. in Br., Sch. et Guemb. Bry. Eur. V. 

 (1851-55). 



1. T. varians Welw. et Duby in Geneve, Mem. See. Phys. XXI. 

 ii. p. 440. t. V. fig. 3 '(1872). 



PuNGO Andongo. — Growing in company with Madotheca, Plagiochila 

 and other Hepatics on the ground and on trunks, Barrancos de Catete ; 

 with fr. beginning of Dec. 1856. No. 101. A cfespitose moss occurring 

 but sparingly on the bark of old trees of " Mucu^o " {Girialnhmin 

 nhyssiniaim) in the more elevated parts of Pedra de Cazella within the 

 prfesidium ; with but scanty fr. beginning of May 1857. No. 102. A 

 yellowish green, very widely cgespitose moss, growing on the ground 



