298 mosses (Gepp). [Erythrodontiwrn 
34. ERYTHRODONTIUM Hampe in Kjobnh. Vidensk. 
Meddel. (1870), p. 27!). 
1. E. subjulaceum Paris Index Bryolog. p. 437 (1895). 
Pterigynamd/rwm mbjidaceum G. Muell. in Linmea xxxix. p. 453 
(1875). 
Var. impolitum Gepp. var. nov. 
Ramuline leaves not shining, in the dry state less closely 
appressed than in the type, plicate under pressure, more widely 
acuminulate. 
Pu.Mii> ANDONGO. — A yellowish green, creeping, widely caespitose 
moss, found on rotting old trunks in Barrancos de Catete, and more 
rarely on the bare ground in the same place ; with operculate fr. and 
very fugacious calyptras, May 1H.07. No. 84. 
GiiU'Niin Alto. — On trunks and branches of Edwardia lurida in the 
forests of Quilombo-Quiacatubia. at an elevation of 2400 ft. ; with old 
fr. end of Feb. 1855. Xo. 164. Growing with Macromitrium lyco- 
podioides on old trunks, especially on Edwardia, in the rocky woody 
parts of Sobato de Quilombo-Quiacatubia ; July 1856. Xo. 144- Wel- 
witsch says he also gathered the plant at Alto Queta. 
2. E. bicolor Gepp sp. n. 
Plant closely and widely interwoven. Stem creeping, rooting, 
pimiately branched, with leaves homomallous. Branches numerous, 
ascending, curved, brunnescent below, navescent above, terete - 
julaceous, scarcely polished, obtuse, 3 to 5 mm. long, 0'4 mm. wide 
when dry, 1 "0 wide when wet. Ramuline leaves appressed when 
dry, erecto-patent when wet, 0'85 mm. long by - 375 mm. wide, 
from a broad cordate base elliptic-ovate acuminate, slightly 
hollowed, shortly binervate, with margins erect or slightly re- 
curved, minutely serrulate above middle ; alar cells quadrate 
numerous, ascending to -J length of margin, - 01 to 0*015 mm. 
diam., with primordial utricle contracted, dense ; upper cells 
vermiform-elongate (0-05 by 0*006 mm.), smooth, with walls 
lutescent. 
Huilla. — A densely and widely ctespitose moss, covering the older 
tree-trunks on the northern and western sides ; on nearly lifeless bark 
in the elevated woods of Monino near Lopollo ; without fr. Apr. 1860. 
Xo. 8. 
This sterile specimen appears to belong to the present genus. In 
habit and in leaf-structure it is related to E. subjulaceum Paris, but 
differs in the shape of the leaves which are oblong-ovate, half as wide, 
much less excavate. The leaves approach in shape more nearly to 
those of E. Schweinfurthi Paris (Index Bryolog. p. 437), but are much 
less excavate and have much less visibly reflexed margins. 
35. TRACHYPHYLLUM Gepp gen. nov. 
A genus of the family Entodontece, nearest to Erythrodontiwrn 
and differing in the papillate dorsal surface of the leaves and in 
the inclined, lopsided theca. It is distinguished from Pterigi/n- 
andrurn by the very numerous alar cells of its leaves. 
Stem prostrate, more or less pinnate ; branches ascending, 
julaceous ; leaves appressed (apex patent) when dry, very patent 
