284 mosses (Gepp). [Schlotheimia 
calyptras flavescent, splitting at base into eight regular subtruncate 
laciniae. On branches of Xerqphyta squarrosa Baker (Hb. Wehv. 
No. 1555), often entirely enveloping them, on elevated rocks of the 
presidium, seldom bearing fr., but found with fr. at BarraEco de 
Catete ; April, May, 1857. No. 66. 
This species was previously known to occur in Brazil only : and the 
original plant was gathered by Swainson near Rio de Janeiro, according 
to Hooker (Muse. Exot. t. 128). Hooker's Herbarium, however, 
affords reason for the belief that the original locality was Bahia. The 
African plant appears to differ from the Brazilian as redescribed by 
C. Mueller (Synops. I. p. 761) in the lighter colour (yellowish brown), 
more laciniate base and less rough (merely scab'ous) apex of the 
calyptra. 
12. MA.CROMITRIUM Brid. Mant. Muse. p. 132 (1819). 
1. M. tenue Brid. Bryol. Univ. I. p. 740. 
Orthotrickum tenue Hook, et Grev. in Brewster's Edinburgh 
Journ. I. p. 120, t. v. (1824). 
PUNGO ANDONGO, — A blackish-green, densely csespitose moss, closely 
enveloping the upper branches of Xerophyta squamosa Baker, Hb. 
Welw. No. 1555 ; common, but very seldom producing fruit owing to 
the exposed situation it occupies on unsheltered rocks in the fierce 
heat of the sun ; Pedra de Causambe, within the presidium ; with fr. 
in very small quantity, 3 May 1857. No. 53 A few specimens 
found on a half-dry branch which had fallen from an old tree in the 
primitive wood called Mata de Pungo, within the presidium : with fr. 
beginning of June 1857. No. 86 
2. M. lycopodioides Schwaegr. Spec. Muse. Suppl. II. ii. p. 141, 
t. 193 (1827). 
Orthotrickum lycopodioides Burchell, Catalog. Geogr. Plant. Afr. 
Austr. Extratrop. ms. No. 5144-47. 
Huilla. — Very common ; growing with Braunia arbuscula (No. 32) 
on old trunks which are bearded with Usnea and Physcia on the 
summit of Serra da Xelia, where Welwitsch often saw it bearing fruit 
on a species of Tarchonanthus and other trees : gathered in a very dry 
and fragile state with fr. June 1860. No. 19. (The British Museum 
specimen has no fruit). A very dry and brittle moss with a conical 
straightly rostrate operculum and hardly any peristome except a very 
short white membrane ; mingled in tufts of Braunia arbuscula (No. 32), 
but much more slender than that plant ; in company with various 
Lichens on branches of old trees on the highest parts of Serra da 
Xella at an elevation of about 4000 ft. ; with fr. June 1860. No. 198. 
Golungo Alto. — Growing with Erytkrodontium on old trunks, 
especially of Edward/a lurida, in rocky woody parts of Sobato de 
Quilombo-Quiacatubia ; with fr. July 185G. No. 144. 
13. EPHEMERUM Hampe in Flora XX. p. 285 (1837). 
1. E. aethiopicum Welw. et Duby in Geneve, Mem. Soc. Phys. 
XXI. ii. p. 443. t. iii. fig. 8 (1872). 
Golungo Alto. — Casspitose, yellowish green, springing from a basal 
weft of confervoid protonematous filaments ; theca subsessile, turning 
red at maturity ; on clayey sandy soil by the roadside between Sange 
and Bango ; with fr. Dec. 1855. No. 155- 
