Hook&ria mosses (< tepp). 
This species i- allied perhaps to //. (EnJtookeria) /' 
described by Brotherus in Engler's Botan. Jahrb. w. p. _'nl 
(1894), and is distinct From it in having wider branches, longer 
and more easily istened leaves and probably larger areola tion. 
It is a larger planl than //. Breuteliana Hampe, and it- leaves 
are ool half as wide as those of //. VaUis-gratia Hampe. 
II i \. A moss with leavea remarkably glaucnnr- and rather 
Beahy in the Living state: rather rarely occurring on the ground by 
oldish tree-trunks, in company with Utriculariae and Xyridea3, etc., in 
the spongy swamps on Morro de Monino at an elevation of 5400 ft.; 
without £r. April I860. No. 39. 
•_'. H. angolensis Wflw. ei Duby in Geneve, Mem. Soc. Phys. 
XXI. ii. p. 142. t. v. fig. 5 (1872). 
Lepidopilum angolt rise Jaeg. Gen. el Spec. Muse. ii. p. 234(1877). 
Pi sgci A.XDOXOO. A vi i\ pretty teiTestrial moss, occurring on the 
-had. d sides of springs and rivulets in almost entirely rocky plate- ai 
a considerable elevation but only in the Barranco de Pedra de S. 
Antonio did Welwitsch gathei it in a fruiting state, and that was on 
mossy ground shaded by Cyathea angola k and rarely conspicuoua ; 
with'fr. May 1857. No." 108. 
GOLUNGO A.LTO. Apparently a rare ami sporadic moss, occurring 
among Hepatics at the foot of tree trunks very scantily in the primitive 
w Is of Quisucula mar Bango-Aquitamba ; with poor t'r. .June 1856. 
No. 193. 
3. H. contracta Gepp. sp. n. 
M i ico . . ' en, dilute at apex ; yellowish at base. Branches 
ads© oding, simple or laxly and irregularly pinnate, 2'5 to 7*0 cm. 
long, complanate, with the foliage 3*5 mm. wide; branchlets 0*6 
to 1*2 cm. long, obtuse. Lateral haves reflexo-patulous, eon 
tracted, unaltered when wet, variously flexed, asymmetrical, 
2*0 mm. long by <h : wide, oblongo lanceolate, acuminate ; margins 
elimbate, more or less infolded on one side and with a small 
auricle nt the base of the other (convex) side, stronglj serrate 
above the mi. Idle, with the subapical serrations geminate; nerves 
two. short, vanishing below the middle: cells elongated (5 by 1 ». 
contracted, densely chlorophyllose, with pellucid walls. .Median 
leaves shorter. Perichaetial bracts .-mailer, more narrowly 
acuminate, less strongly serrate, with subapical serrations 
geminate. Seta 17 mm. long, smooth, red ; theca (unique, 
damaged) inclined, oval?, with neck scaberulous, as long; 
operculum rost rate. ' as long. 
This plant is readily distinguished from //. angolensis Welw. el 
Duby by the less crowded, less imbricate, more fiexuous, more 
sharply acuminate leave-, the cells of which are contracted and 
obscured bj chlorophyll. In the apical leaves only do the cells, 
when moistened, expand and become hexagonal and pellucid. 
Punoo Ajtdongo. On -had. d ground in the forest called "Mata 
de Pungo"; in small quantity and almost without fr. May l B57. No. 80 
H. angoletisis and II. ■ nUracta present at first Bighl the appearance 
of a Lepidopilum, but differ from that genus by having a Sookeriaoeous 
peristome and a long smooth Beta and leaves witl 
