NO. 8 UGANDA MOSSES — DIXON 5 



ENTODONTACEAE 



ERYTHRODONTIUM SUBJULACEUM (C. M.) Par. 



Chiko Forest, Busoga, alt. 3,500 ft., 1916, Snowden 3 p. p. and 7; 

 c. fr. On bark of Erythrina, grassland, Kipayo, alt. 4,000 ft., May, 

 1914, Dtimmer 820; c. fr. 



FABRONIACEAE 



FABRONIA ANGOLENSIS Welw. & Dub. 



On Erythrina, grassland, Kijnde, alt. 4,000 ft., Nov., 1915, 

 Diiminer 2645b; c. fr. Tree trunk, savannah, Namonyungi, alt. 

 4,000 ft., June, 1915, Diimmer 2577b; c. fr. 



HOOKERIACEAE 

 HOOKERIOPSIS PAPPEANA (Hampe) Jaeg. 



A stem or two with one or two capsules, associated with Rhaco- 

 pilum marginatum (Dummer 984). 



Mitten 1 records this species, with some uncertainty, from the 

 Usagara Mountains. 



HYPOPTERYGIACEAE 

 CYATHOPHORUM AFRICANUM Dixon, sp. nov. 



§ Cyathophorclla. Stirps pergracilis; caules 4-6 cm. alti, flexuosi, 

 cum foliis 5 mm. lati, apice hand Hagelliformi desinentes. Folia sat 

 conferta, paullo recurvata, 3-4 mm. longa, valde asymmetrica, latere 

 inferiore plus minusve concavo, superiore valde convexo, margine 

 omnino piano, e basi fere minute, apicem versus magis magisque 

 acute, subspinose dentato, valde indistincte marginato ; costa pro 

 more valida, tertiam partem folii longitudinis vel supra attingens. 

 Areolatio sat densa, valde chlorophyllosa, superne e cellulis rhom- 

 boideis 40-50 /x longis, 14-18 fx latis, marginalibus 1-2 seriebus angus- 

 tioribus limbum indistinctum efficientibus. 



Amphigastria multo minora, lanceolata, sensim auguste acuminata, 

 argute dentata, laxius areolata, minus chlorophyllosa, costa unica, 

 longa 1/2-2/3 f° m longitudinem aequante praedita. 



Seta erecta, tenuiuscula, 1.5-2 mm. longa; theca erecta, breviter 

 oblonga valde leptodcrmica, pallide fusca. Peristomium pallid inn, 

 externum e dentibus angustis inacqualibus articulatis dense grosse 



1 Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 22: 309. 1886. 



