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Br yum argenteum Hedw. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, exposed trunks of a 

 forest tree, 1820 m., 16684 in part. 



Bryum capillare Hedw. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, lower trunks of forest 

 trees, 1820 m., 16590. 



Bryum truncorum Brid. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, occasional at bases of trees in rain-forest, 

 1450 m., 16209. Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, epiphytic 

 in forest, 1820 m., 16589, 16686. Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, abundant 

 on rocks in Brachystegia woodland, 1400 m., 16946. 



MNIACEAE 



Milium longirostrum Brid. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, lower trunks of a tree in montane forest, 

 2250 m., 17275. 



RHIZOGONIACEAE 



Rhizogonium spiniforme (Hedw.) Bruch. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, forming cushions on 

 forest floor, 1880 m., 16800. 



BARTRAMIACEAE 



Philonotis afro-fontana (C. Mull.) Par. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, massed on wet, sunny 

 rock faces in forest, 1800 m., 16692. 



Breutelia gnaphalea (Beauv.) Schimp. ? 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, massed on shaded seep- 

 age slopes, 16461. 



ORTHOTRICH ACE AE 



Macromitrium tenue (Hook. & Grev.) Brid. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, on bamboos in forest, 

 1820 m., 16560; ibid., on twigs of a forest bamboo, 1820 m., 16565 in part, 16594; 

 ibid., on isolated low trees on a bleak ridge, 2150 m., 16799; ibid., on bark of a 

 grassland shrub, 1950 m., 16831. Cholo District: Cholo Mountain, crown of a rain- 

 forest canopy tree, 1200 m., 17785. 



Macromitrium borbonicum (Besch.) Broth. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, small cushions on Vel- 

 lozia splendens on grasslands, I960 m., 16857; ibid., cushioned on a relic tree 

 on grassland, I960 m., 16856; ibid., epiphytic in forest undergrowth, 1890 m., 



16829. 



Macromitrium mannii Jaeg. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje v Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, branches of trees on 

 riverbanks, 1820 m., 16558; ibid., on exposed trunks of forest trees, 1820 m., 

 16683. North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, exposed branch of a tree in montane 

 forest, 2100 m., 17310. 



Schlotheimia percuspidata C. Mull. 



Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, trunk of tree in sunny 

 forest edge, 1890 m., 16619. Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, exposed trunk 

 of tree in edge of rain-forest, 1600 m., 17068. 



