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I have the plant also from Solia, Mt. Kenya, leg. Kemp, 1911, 
st.; Aberdare Mts., leg. Kemp, 1910, c. fr.; and Knysna, Cape 
Colony, leg. Hewitt, 1910, comm. W. Ingha 
Assuming the identity of the two plants, a rather troublesome 
problem in nomenclature is solved, as OC. Miiller’s specific na 
must supersede the synonymy of the S. African plant. Paris gives 
Calyptothecium africanum Mitt. in Journ. of the Linn. Soc. 1886, 
p. 312, with, as synonym, Trachyloma africanum Rehm. M. Afr. 
austr. n. 332. Both, however, of these are invalid names, no 
descriptions in either case being published until Brotherus de- 
scribed it in 1894. 
fi Adopting the views above expressed, the synonymy will stand 
us :— 
ReNAvLDIA HoErHNELII (C. M.) Broth., Musci ii. 792 (1906). 
Syn. Neckera Hoehnelit C. M. in Fl., 1890, p. 489. 
Trachyloma africanum Rehm. M. Afr. austr. n. 332 
nomen). 
Calyptothecium africanum Mitt. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
(Bo , p. 312 (nomen) ; Brotherus in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. 1894, p. 198. 
Renauldia africana Broth., Musci, loc. cit. 
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN AUSTRALIA. 
By Dr. A. B. Renpuz, F.B.S. 
shore. These were generall: shaped like a Rugby football, not 
spherical as are the similar Put much smaller bails of P. oceanica 
