72 D1rxon: NEW AND RARE AFRICAN MOSSES 
describes the nerve as smooth, but Brotherus places the species — 
in the section with nerve toothed at back. 2 
The habit of the species is unusual, the stems being filiform, — 
flexuose and not at all dendroid, but it is quite probable that the — 
scanty material may not represent the true habit altogether — 
correctly. The leaf characters, however, are in any case distinctive. — 
Entodon brevirameus Dixon, sp. nov. 
E. Dregeano peraffinis. Differt caule elongato, sat regulariter 
pinnatim ramoso, ramis patentibus brevibus obtusis, vix 0.5 cm. 
superantibus, foliis magis decurvatis; foliis perichaetialibus squar- 
rosis; columella valde exserta; peristomii dentibus ubique fere — 
longitudinalhiter, ad infimam basin tantum transverse, striolatis, 
longioribus, melius evolutis, sporis Jaevibus. [Fic. 3.] : 
HaBitaT: on stones in bed of stream, 2,000-3,000 ft. alt. 
Pieter Maritzburg, Natal, 1909, H. A. Wager 9. : 
The characters above detailed are, I think, sufficient to separate 
this plant from E. Dregeanus (Hornsch.) C. Miill., which however. 
apparently correctly named, have the perichaetial bracts squat 
rose. For the present, however, I am not inclined to lay much - 
stress on this character, nor on the single seta, in view of the 
small quantity of material available (in E. Dregeanus the setae 
are said to be usually aggregate, but I doubt if this be correct) 
the habit, branching and peristome characters are, however, prob- : 
ably reliable and of sufficient importance even though the others 
should prove invalid. In E. Dregeanus the peristome teeth are 
transversely striolate in the lower half, they ate shorter and less 
regular, the columella I have not found exserted, the spores are 
slightly papillose. The inner peristome here is very delicate am 
adherent to the columella. 
TRACHYPHYLLUM GASTRODES (Welw. & Dub.) Gepp 
Barberton, Transvaal, H. A. Wager 265. 
Eight African species have been described of this small genus 
all of them are, as Brotherus has remarked, very closely relate 
one to the other, and I should not be surprised if several of them 
have ultimately to be reduced to T. fabronioides (C. Miill.) GepP 
