296 MOSSES (Gepp). [Hookeria 



cells and geminate apical teeth. They belong to that section of the 

 genus Hookeria which Hampe has called Lamprophyllum, in Kjobenhavn 

 Vidensk. Meddel. 1874, 9, p. 158. Other species which belong to this 

 section are H. Pappeana Hampe, H. macropyxis Rehm. (Musci Austro- 

 Afric. nos. 339, 023), E. utacamundiana Mont., H. secunda Griff., 

 H. macropus Doz. et Molk,, H. nitens Hornsch., H. Glaziovii Hampe, 

 H. hreviseta Hampe, and probably Lepidopilum devexum Mitt. 



31. FABRONIA Eaddi in Att. d. Accad. d. Soienz. di Siena ix. 

 p. 231 (1808). 



1. F. ang^olensis Welw. et Duby in Geneve, Mem. Soc. Phys. 

 XXI. ii. p. 425. t. i. fig. 3 (1872). 



PuNfin Andongo. — A moss of a most beautiful green colour dui-ing 

 life, but turning pale when dried. Common on the aerial roots of 

 ITarioia jmrasitica on the highest western rocks of the prsesidium at an 

 elevation of about 3800 to 4000 ft. on Pedra Cabonda, also on lichenous 

 ground ; with ripe fr., and occasionally young ealyptras, towards the 

 end of May 1857. No. 72. 



Var. acuminata Gepp. var. nov. 



Leaves acuminate not piliform-aouminate. 



PuNGO Andongo.— A small whitish-green moss, widely csespitose, 

 very rarely fruiting. Common on old palm-trunks (Elceis gwneensis), 

 but only in the neighbourhood of Caudumba in open woods by the 

 river Cuanza ; with fr. March 1857. No. 74. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A small moss growing with Octohlepharum alUdum 

 on trunks of palms (Elmis) on the lower slopes of the mountains of 

 Alta Queta ; without fr. Dec. 1854. No. 197. 



32. ANACAMPTODON Brid. Mant. Muse. p. 136 (1819). 



1. A. fabronioides Welw. et Duby in Geneve, Mem. Soc. Phys 

 XXI. ii. p. 426. t. i. fig. 5 (1872). 



GoLUNTio Alto.— A tender, widely csespitose, flavescent-green moss, 

 growmg on bark and seldom producing fruit. On old trunks of 

 Monodora Miiristica Dun. near the rivulet of Quibolo in Queta • with 

 fr. end of July 1856. No. 157. On the bark of trees (Monodora 

 Myrtatica) m the dense woods of Capopa ; with f r. Feb. 1 856. No. 157i 

 On the ground in the coffee-yielding woods of Cungulungulo, but 

 seldom met with ; without fr. Feb. 1856. No. 190. 



Cazexc(j.— A small creeping moss of Fabronioid habit, but with 

 double peristome. On trunks beside the river Muxaiila on the Serra 

 de Muxaula ; a few specimens with old fr. Jan. 1855. No. 186. 



33. THUIDIUM Schimp. in Br., Sch. et Guemb. Bry. Eur V 

 (1851-55). •' 



1. T. varians Welw. et Duby in Genfeve, Mem. Soc. Phys XXI 

 u. p. 440. t. v. fig. 3 (1872). ' 



.„d nfW ^^"'"J^o—Growingin company with J/a^o</icca, Plagiochila 

 and other Hepatics on the ground and on trunks, Barrancos de Catete : 

 with fr. beginning of Dec. 1856. No. 101. A cfflspitose moss occurring 

 but sparingly on the bark of old trees of "Mucugo" (GiqllSi 

 abyssimcum) in the more elevated parts of Pedra de Cazella within the 

 prsesidium ; with but scanty fr. beginning of May 1857. mm A 

 yellowish green, very widely csespitose moss, growing on the ground 



