Ertropothediwii] mosses (Gepp). .'JOT 



large and oblique mouth when dry ; operculum Brachythecioid- 

 uonic 0'5 mm. long; sporangium with operculum 1'2 mm. long. 



42. LETJCOMIUM Mitt, in Journ. Linn. See. x. p. 180 (1869). 



1. L. golungense Gepp, sp. n. 



Monoicous. Plants laxly ciespitose, pale green, not glistening ; 

 stem creeping, sparingly and irregularly pinnately branched; 

 branchlets 5 to 10 mm. long by 4 to 5 mm. wide (with leaves), 

 complanate, obtuse, with rather lax foliage ; lateral leaves patu- 

 lous, rather curved, lanceolate, median leaves elliptic, all rather 

 hollow piliform-acuminate, nerveless, quite entire ; cells lax, 

 rhomboidal ; pericha^tial bracts much smaller, the innermost 

 being truncate, erose, suddenly longly apiculate ; seta 10 mm. 

 long, red, towards its apex curved and slightly scaberulous ; theca 

 inclined or horizontal, oval, occasionally substrumous, more or 

 less constricted below the mouth when dry. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — Subglaucoscent (when gathered), very laxly 

 caespitulose on rocks and trees alongside the Catombe rivulet in the 

 mountains of Alto Queta, but in small quantity : with fr. middle of 

 June 1867. No. 191. A moss of an intense and bright glaucous-green 

 colour, covering exposed muddy spots by rivulets in the primitive 

 forests of Quisucula, in company with Begonia ; with fr. June 1856. 

 No. 192. On rocks in the forests of Queta-Zengas, growing with 

 Spi-ucella auccida (No. 219) ; gathered with fr. (now lost), no date. 

 No. 1916. An elegant moss of a pleasant green colour, clothing with 

 its wide tufts the rocks by the spring of Capopa ; Oct. 1854. No. 194. 



This species appears to be distinct from the Cameroons plant 

 L perglaucum Broth,, described in Bugler's Botan. Jahrb. Band. xxiv. 

 p. 273 (1897), in several particulars, such as the foliage, the shape of 

 the leaves, and the theca. 



43. STEREOPHYLLTJM Mitt, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Suppl. i. 

 p. 117 (1859). 



1. S. omalosekos Jaeg. et Sauerb. Gen. et Spec. Muse. ii. p. 544 

 (1879). 



Hypnum (Stereophyllum) omalosekos Welw. et Duby in Geneve, 

 M6m Soc. Phys. XXL ii. p. 433. t. iv. f. 3 (1872). 



PxiXGO Andongo. — In enclosed rocky valleys near Catete on bark 

 and on ground at the foot of trees ; with fr. May 1857. No 106, 



The upper cells of the leaves are unipapillate as in S. cubense Mitt. 

 The seta is 9 mm. long. 



2. S. andongense. 



Hypnum Andungense Welw. et Duby in Genfeve, Mem. Soc. 

 Phys. XXI. ii. p. 438. t. i. f. 1 (1872). Raphidosiegium Andungense 

 Jaeg. et Sauerb. Gen. et Spec. Muse. ii. p. 456 (1878). Eypnwni 

 (Thamniunf) decolorans Welw. et Duby, op. cit., p. 435. t. iii. f. 3 

 (1872). Thamnium decolorans Jaeg. et Sauerb., op. cit., p. 216 

 (1877). 



PcTNGO Andongo. — On moist ground by rivulets in the Barrancos 

 de Catete ; with fr. May 1857. No. 93. Barranco grande de Catete ; 

 withont fr. April and beginning of May 1857. No. 936. A widely 

 ctEspitose, brilliantly green, moss found on tree trunks near the great 



