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latioribus, alaribus haud numerosis, quadratis, plerumque valde chloro- 
phyllosis, opacis. Folia ramea similia, minora, breviora. 
Autoicus. Folia perichaetialia omnes erecto-appressa, e basi vaginante 
longa sat hreviter latiuscule stricte acuminata, integra. Setae singulae, 
hreves, 6-8 mm. altae, tennes, flavae ; theca parva, angiiste elliptica, (de- 
operculata) 2 mm. longa. Peristomium, operculum, haud visa. 
Hah. — Moorddrift, Waterberg District, Northern Transvaal, 1916; coll. 
H. A. W. (No. 408). 
A very distinct species in the small cymbiform leaves, short seta, etc. 
E. stereophylloides Broth, would seem to be the only species at all near it. 
This I have not seen, but from the description it differs considerably, inter 
alia, in the leaves only moderately concave, more pointed {" ovato- 
acuminata"), and the perichaetial leaves filiform pointed. 
Stereophyllum odontocalyx (C. M.) Par. Barberton, Transvaal, 1914 ; 
coll. H. A. W. (No. 261),c.fr. ; Kaapsche Hoop, Transvaal, 1915 ; coll. H. A. W. 
(Nos. 261, 328), c. fr. No. 261 was sent me for description, as S. Wageri 
Broth, sp. n. I cannot, however, separate it from S. odontocalyx. I presume 
the subentire perichaetial leaves form the ground for its separation, but in 
plants from Ehodesia, coll. F. Eyles, Herb. Mus. Brit., I find them some- 
times very little toothed while at other times fairly normal, and I think it 
is impossible to found a new species on this character alone. 
Fabroniaceae. 
I find the S. African species very difficult to elucidate, and I do not 
feel at present to have at all mastered them. This is partly due to the fact 
that the leaves show much variability even on the same plant, in the degree 
of dentation of the margin, and to some extent also in the strength of the 
nerve and the character of the areolation. The difficulty also in part arises 
from C. Mueller's having described several species of which specimens are 
not available in our national collections, and which it is not easy to recognise 
from the descriptions alone, added to which there is an extreme probability, 
almost amounting to certainty, that some at least of his species are identical 
with species already described from tropical or sub-tropical Africa. 
A considerable portion of the S. African specimens I have seen 
appear to me identical with F. ahyssinica CM., which may be roughly 
described thus : Tufts grey with the leaf -points, owing to the great density 
of the leaves ; leaves moderately denticulate, long pointed, areolation rather 
obscure, not very chloropliyllose nor pellucid ; capsule rather wide and sub- 
globose, with an indistinct collum. 
Several other plants I cannot separate from F. angolensis Welw. & Duby, 
This is a rather dark green plant, with the leaves much less densely arranged, 
and hence the tufts are not grey, the leaves are greener and more chloro- 
