Ftmaria] kossi - (< tepp). 
14. FUNARIA Bchreb. Gen. Plant, p. 760 | L791 |. 
1. F. hygrometrica Bedw. Sp. Muse. p. L72 (1801). 
[slams of St. Thomas Laxly ceespitose. growing with various 
Bryoid mosses ami occurring principally on half burnt, half-rotten 
trunks in w Is mi Monti GaS4 at an elevation of about 2500 ft. 
with Er. Deo. I860. No 127. 
Also collected in woods in the kingdom of Lunda to the east of the 
district of ( laaange and given to Welwitsch b\ Li\ ingstone. Ma 
No. 115. 
15. PHILONOTIS Brid. Bry. Oniv. [I. p. 15 (1827). 
P. spongiosa. 
/ir>/nii> spongiosum Welw. el Dnby in Geneve, Mem. Soc. Phya 
XXI. i. p. 218, t. i. 6g. 3 (1871). 
Anomobryv/m spongiosum Jaeg. Gen. et Spec. Muse. |. n, 603. 
Pungo Andongo. — A densely caespitose, brilliantly green moss 
occurring in spongy pulvinate tufts on wet gneiss rocks; frequently 
visited by Welwitsch, but always found in tbe sterile state ; at the 
cataracts above I'alunda in the most lofty parts of the pra-sidiiim. 
Oct. 1856; by rills in Mata de Pungo, Nov. 1856, and Feb., Aj.nl 
and middle of May 1857 : near Cabondo, Jan., Feb., March 1857 ; 
by the springs of Pedra Cabondo, Dec. 1856, Feb. and May l s -~»7 ; bj 
the cataracts of the prsesidium, March 1857. No. 61. Closely 
associated with Bryum argenteum (No. 70) on wet rocks by the rivulet 
in Barranco de S. Antonio within the prassidinm, always sterile, May 
1857. No. 62 Also Alga No. 152. 
The stems of this moss are usually branched at base, bearing long 
(2 cm.) simple branches which are straight or curved at apex, and 
tomentose below ; leaves congested at apex ; the mature leaves exceed 
1 mm. in length and are slightly papillate on the upper surface ; the 
nerve is shortly excurrent at apex and decurrent at base, and the 
margin is narrowly revolute along the whole of one side and in 
the middle of the other side : the basal cells near the nerve are large 
and lax and those near the margin are shorter, quadrate and sub- 
obscure ; the upper cells are lax and the contracted primordial utricle 
in them is persistent ; inflorescence not observed. 
Some of the specimens under Wei witsch's No. 61 may turn out to 
belong to another Bpecies, with stems more branched, less fcom< 
Among tbe indeterminate specimens belonging to this genus 
are the following numbers: — 
Hi ii i \. ( >n the roots of old trees and on rocks dose by, near 
rivulets in rather dense woods, near Catumba : sterile. April I860 
No. 29. in part. 
l'i \.,(i Andongo. On rocks by rivulets in forests of Caesalpinise 
and Acacias, near Pedras de Guinga ; sterile, dan. 1857. X<>. 57 
Very bright green, widely ceespitose, providing > suitable basis for tin- 
growth of terrestrial Dtricularise ; on the Bides of the Casalale* river 
within the presidium ; sterile. March [867. X >. 79. 
(on i tJGO Ail". On shaded moist -round by the rivulet of 
Quibolo ; sterile, 19 March 1856. No. 156- A mOSS never found in 
the fruiting state though visited at different periods; OD the margins 
Of the ferruginous Bpring near BangO Aquitamba, end of April and 
in Nov. 1856. No. 182. On rocks covered with a Bpong] cruBtof sand] 
mud alongside the BpringS near Bange : sterile. Feb 1855 No. 188- 
