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Perichaetium ei praecedentis sat simile, paullo longius, foliis Fi : 
internis longius argutius acuminatis; seta rubra, paullo longior, — 
theca rufescens. Operculum haud visum. Peristomium paullo 
saturatius flavidum, ceterum simile. Spori paullo minores. — 
[Fic. 6.] 
Hasitat: Rydal Mount, Pretoria, South Africa, 1914, H. As 
Wager 29. 
Entirely different in habit, color, leaf-form and areolation from 
the last; in these respects closely resembling certain species 0 
Haplocladium, though differing in the quite smooth cells. The 
sporophytic characters are almost those of L. pseudoleskeoides; i: 
the general color only being a little deeper in all the parts. 
HAPLOCLADIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM (Hampe & C. Mill.) Broth. 
Macomo’s Hoek, South Africa, 1897, Mrs. Clarke Williams, 2 
communicated by Rev. C. H. Binstead; near Pretoria (on dry — 
earth) and at Van Reenen, Transvaal, H. A. Wager. 
These plants agree in leaf characters with the specimens in 
Hampe’s herbarium; they manifest some considerable degree of 
variability, especially in habit and branching, but I believe they 
all belong to one type, which like its congener, H. capillatum 3, 
(Mitt.) Broth. in southern and eastern Asia, is somewhat poly- 
morphous. I believe that H. afro-capillatum Broth. and H. am — 
plexicaule (C. Miill.) Broth. are likely to prove forms of the : 
same thing. % 
PSEUDOLESKEA DISPERSA C. Miill. : 
Kilimanjaro, Bishop Hannington, Mitten’s herbarium; Solty 
Mt. Kenya, 1911, R. Kemp, communicated by W. R. Sherrin. 
Although I have not see P. dispersa C. Miill., I have no hesita- 
tion in referring the above plant to it, from the description give? — | 
by Brotherus.* The plants of the Cameroons were entirely sterile: — | 
and Mitten’s specimen is an unnamed, sterile scrap. Kemp's, 08 | 
the other hand, is in good condition and fruiting, though the cap- 
sules are old and deoperculate, with only fragments of peristome 
showing. The sporophytic characters may be described, so fat 
as shown, as follows: 
REEDS ri a UO ac wd Sel ce cutee 
* Bot. Jahrb. 24: 282. 1897. 
