Barbula] mosses (Gepp). 283 



1857. No. 90. In small quantity on moist ground in the more 

 elevated rocky parts of Pedra de S. Antonio, within the prroaidium ; 

 sterile, May 1857. No. 119. 



8. SYRRHOPOLON Schwaegr. Suppl. II. i. p. 110 (1824). 



1. S. Welwitschii Besdi. in Ann. 8oi. Nat. ser. 7, torn. i. p. 307 

 (1895). 



Calymperes? Welwitschii Duby in Geneve, Mem. Soc. Phys. XXI. 

 ii. p. 444, t. iv. fig. 8 (1872). 



HuiLLA. — On moist soil at the foot of rotting trunks in swampy 

 woods near Humpata ; without fr. May 1860. No. 6. 



Bescherelle {lor. c/t.) has indicated the affinity of this plant to 

 Syrrhopodon Spruceanus Mitt. 



Another species, indeterminate, is represented by the following 

 number : — 



GoLUNOO Alto. — On the base of trunks and on fallen branches on 

 the ground in the primitive forests of Cungulungulo ; sterile, July 1856. 

 No. 129c. 



9. CALYMPERES Swartz ex Weber, Tabula exhib. Calyptr. 

 Operc. (1813). 



1. C. Afzelii Swaitz in Sprang. Sclirad. et Link, Jahrb. d. 

 Gewachsk. I. i. p. 3 (1818), c. tab. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Csspitose, bright green ; stems erect ; leaves 

 widely sheathing, much crisped and twisted by drought ; calyptra 

 acutely angulate, flavescent ; at an elevation of about 2000 ft. On 

 palm -trunks {Elmis guineensis) in shady woods on the banks of the 

 river Quango ; without fr. June 1856. No. 129. Common, but 

 rarely bearing fr. on palm-stems, etc. ; foundi with fr. on Raphia 

 textilis Welw. on Oaminho (road) para Mussengue near Sange, on the 

 eve of Welwitsch's departure, Aug. 1857. No. 129&. 



10. ZYGODON Hook, et Tayl. Muse. Brit. ed. i. p. 70 (1818). 

 1. Z. Welwitschii Duby in Geneve, Mem. Soc. Phys. XXI. ii. 



p. 444. t. 1, fig. 7 (1872). 



HuiLLA. — A minute moss, remarkable for the, many and prominent 

 ribs on its capsule. A great rarity, found in one place only, very 

 sparingly interspersed in tufts of Brachymenium angolense, on old 

 trunks of a Sapotaceous kind of tree called " Mutambote "' {Chryso- 

 phyllum argyrophyllum) in the mountain woods of Morro de Lopollo at 

 an elevation of 5100 ft. ; at the end of March 1860. No. 27. 



11. SCHLOTHEIMIA Schwaegr. Muse. Recent. Suppl. ii. p. 

 16 (1812). 



1. S. rugifolia Brid. in Bryol. Univ. I. p. 322 (1826). 



Orthotrichum riugifolivmi Hook. Muse. Exot. II. t. 128 (1820). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In broad tufts on old trunks of a tree called 

 " Muccamba-Camba " (loxylon excelsum Hiern, Herb Welw. No. 1569) 

 in woody places near Sange, Dec. 1854. No. 132. Csespitose on tree- 

 trunks in Queta Orient ; gathered with a solitary capsule and a few 

 fallen calyptras ; July 1856. No. 1326. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A widely cEespitose, fulvous-green moss , 



