286 MOSSES (Gepp). [Brachymeniwm 



16. BRACHYMENIUM Hook, ex Schwaegr. Spec. Muse. 

 Suppl. II. i. p. 131 (1824). 



1. B. angolense Jaeg. Gen. et Spec. Muse. I. p. 579 (1875). 

 Bryum (Brachymenium) angolense Welw. et Duby in Genfeve, 



Mem. Soc. Phys. XXI. i. p. 219, t. i. fig. 4 (1871). 



HuiLLA. — A widely csespitoae moss ; stems very densely woven 

 together by an abundance of dark red fibrils ; leaves imbricate, 

 piliferous at apex ; capsule elliptic, dark red, borne on a straight 

 straw-coloured seta ; operculum obtusely conic, shortly raamiUate ; 

 on rather old trunks of a Sapotaceous tree called by the negroes 

 "Mutambote " (Chrysophyllum argyrophyllum) on the way from Morro 

 de LopoUo towards Nene, at an elevation of 5300 ft. ; with fr. at end 

 of March 1860. No. 26. On the base of old trunks in forests, near 

 Lopollo, without fr. May 1860. No. 37. 



2. B. Welwitsehii Jaeg. Gen. et Spec. Muse. I. p. 581 (1875). 

 Bryum {Brachymenium) Welwitsehii Duby in Genfeve, Mem. Soc. 



Phys. XXI. i. p. 219, t. ii. fig. 3 (1871). 



PuNGO Andongo.- — A flavo-viresoent, widely caespitose moss of 

 splachnoid habit, growing in elevated rocky bogs ; very rare and 

 noticed by Welwitsch in one spot only, in Barranco de Catete ; with 

 fr. May 1857. No. 56. 



17. BRYUM Dill.; Br.,Sch.etGuemb.Bry.Eur.IV.(1836-51). 



1. B. coronatum Sehwaegr. Sp. Muse. Suppl. I. ii. p. 103 (1816). 

 HuiLLA. — By no means common in the shortly grassy pastures of 



Empalanca, fiooded in the rainy season, at an elevation of about 

 -5600 ft., on the Huilla plateau ; with fr. May 1860. No. 24. Near 

 Lopollo, April 1860. No. 76. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Common, but sparingly with fruit, in rifts of 

 the higher rooks of Pedras de (juinga ; March 1857. No. 59. By the 

 great cataract of the Cuanza River near Oondo ; with unripe fr. 

 March 1857. No. 206. 



Island op St. Thomas. — A luxuriant form occurring on fallen 

 half-burnt half-rotten trunks in woods at an elevation of 2500 ft. in 

 the locality called " Monte Caff^," growing with a sterile species of 

 Orthodon ; with fr. Dec. 1860. No. 126. 



Also gathered at Freetown in Sierra Leone by Vogel. 



2. B. argenteum Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 1120 (1753). 



PuNGO Andongo. — In wide tufts on volcanic rooks near Cabondo 

 within the prsesidium ; with fr. end of Feb. 1857. Nos. 70 and 706. 



3. B. squarripilum O.M. in Flora LXIX. p. 280 (1886). 

 Pdngo Andongo. — In rifts of rocks at an elevation of about 4000 ft., 



Serra de Pedras de Guinga ; with immature fr. Jan. 1867. No. 63. 

 On rooks near the base of Pedra Cabonda within the prsesidium, not 

 uncommon but sparingly with fr. ; Deo. 1856. No. 71. 



Huilla.— Among thickets in clayey-sandy wooded pastures near 

 MumpuUa ; end of Oct. 1859. No. 7. 



This species beans the name of B. argenteum var. nervosum Welw. et 

 Duby. It answers closely to C. Miiller's description of B.{Argyrohryum) 

 -squarripilum, which was gathered in St. Thomas's Island by Moller. 



4. B. caespitioium L. Sp. PI. p. 1121 (1753). 



LUNDA.— Gathered in the kingdom of Lunda, at a distance of about 



