Ectropotheciwn mosses (Gepp), 
II. ECTROPOTHECIUM Mitt, in Journ. Linn. Soc. \ p 180 
(18GD). 
1. E. capillisetum Kindb. Enum. Bryin. Exot. p. 98 (If 
II ypnum (Cvpressina) capiUisetwm < '. Muell. in Flora 69. p. .">:' 1 
(1886). 
(hii.i ngo A i ro. «>ii Bhaded rocks in woods oi Raphia /■ 
tin' Dcl.-niilioM river, with .1 few old and young capsules and calyptras 
July L866. No. 177. 
The type of this species was gathered by II. Soyaui in Pungo 
Andongo on moist rocks by the river Engamzambe ; 30 March 1876. 
Possibly the following sterile ami imperfect specimens also 
belong to this species : — • 
G-oli ngoAj to. A brilliant fiavescent green plant, widely csespitose 
on the banks of rivulets in dense woods ; Mats de Quisucula Jan 
L856. No. 172. 
P go Axdongo. On the exposed roots of old trunks in woods 
near Luxillo, apparently rather rare ; May L857. No. 99. 
2. E. strephomischos. 
Hypnum (Leucomium) strephomischos Welw. el Duby in G 
Mem. So.-. Phys. XXI. ii. p. 134. t. i. fig. 6(1872). Leucomium 
8trephornischosJa.eg.ei Sauerb.,Gen.e1 Spec. Muse. ii. p. 539(1879). 
Goli kgo Ai ro.- Flavous-green, rather shining, widely and densely 
eajspitose, Imt apparently very rarely bearing fruit, [the British 
Museum specimens are well supplied with fruit] : on the withering 
fronds of rather large ferns (Plotyoerium angolenw Welw.) in the 
forests of Quibanga ; with fr. July 1856. Xo. 179. En the same place ; 
no! however on Platycerium itself, but at the fool of the same tree: on 
ground by the tree on which was growing Platycerium, the matrix of 
No. 170, in the forests of Quibanga ; with fr. July 18f>(*>. Xo. 179/'. 
In size and general appearance this species approaches exceedingly 
closely to Vesicularia bryocarpa C. Muell. in Dusen's mosses from the 
Oameroons (Xo. 311), but differs in having a pendulous (not inclined) 
theca and in not fruiting copiously. To /.'. contractiU Broth, from the 
Cameroons (Preuss, Xo. 1026) it is also nearly allied, especially in thi 
texture of the leaves. The leaf-cells contract and become indistinct 
when dry, and expand very slowly in water. The leaves of Welwitsch's 
plant are much more longly and gradually acuminate, and the Btems 
are Dot nearly so long as in E. contractile. 
The following specimen, the fruit of which was already 
destroyed when Wehvitseli collected the plant, is allied to the 
above species and also to /■/. glaucuhtm, described by Brotherus 
in Bol. Soc. Brot. viii. p. L86 (1890), and collected in the same 
island by Quintas : — 
Island of St. Thomas.— Caaspitose on moist rocks and on half- 
rotten trunks in the vicinity, in the woods of Novo Destino, at an 
elevation of 2500 ft.: without fr. Dec. 1 B60 No. 123. 
3. E. golungense Jaeg. el Sauerb. Gen. el Spec. Muscii. p. 538. 
Hypnum (Ectropothecium) golwngense Welw. el Duby in Geneve, 
Mem. Sue. Phys. XXI. ii. p. 432. t. ii. fig. I (1872). 
Goltjngo Alto. A very line moss hanging down at Borne length 
from rocks which are constantly wet, hut never noticed t.. he beating 
fruit ; at the cataract of the Quibolo spring : without fr March 1856 
