202 XLiv. LEGUMiNOSJE. [CrotalaHco 



of the forests between Catumba and Hay, at an elevation of 5500 ft. : 

 fl. and fr. end of March 1860. No. 1976. 



39. C. florida Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 30. 

 HuiLLA. — Flowers yellow. Abundant in wooded stony hilly meadows 



about the great lake of Ivantala ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1860. No. 1925. 



Taubert in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 178 (1896) unites this with 

 C. glohifera E. Mey., which however has shortly stipitate not sessile 

 pods and longer calyx-lobes. 



40. C. senegalensis Bade ex DC. Prodr. ii. p. 1 33 ; Baker, ?.c., p. 31 . 

 LoANDA AND Barra DO Bengo. — A prostrate herb ; root apparently 



biennial, rather thick, with long fibres and numerous tops, sending off 

 many prostrate or decumbent much-branched branches 3 to 5 ft. long 

 and spreading in a stellate manner ; keel yellow-greenish, falcate- 

 acuminate at a right or almost acute angle ; standard deep-yellow with 

 red lines ; wings yellow. Rather rare, on grassy slopes between 

 Cacuaco and Quicuxe ; fl. and f r. in the winter, beginning of August 

 1858 ; frequent on grassy hills from Q.uicuxe to Barra do Bengo, near 

 the small pond at Museque de Quicuxe, March 1854, No. 1913. 



Mossamedes. — An erect or prostrate annual very green herb, with 

 yellow flowers ; frequent along the sandy grassy banks of the river 

 Bero ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 1914. 



41. C. fulgida Baker in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 32. 

 Mossamedes. — A copiously flowering plant, cheering the sandy 



deserts with its brilliant yellow flowers. Amongst brushwood in the 

 damp sandy places, flooded in the rainy season, in Mata dos Carpen- 

 teiros, not common ; fl. without fr. August 1859. No. 1977. 



42. C. lachnocarpa Hochst. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss, ii. n. 780 ; 

 Baker, I.e., p. 33. 



PuNGO Andongo.— Stem 2 ft. high ; ripe fruit If in. long. Sporadic, 

 by moist thickets near Lombe ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 1915. 



HuiLLA. — An erect leafy perennial herb, 1 to U in. high ; flowers 

 racemose-spicate, deep-yellow, soon turning purple ; petals, as well as 

 the leaflets, rather thick and rigid. Sporadic, in the wooded meadows 

 of Catumba in the territory of LopoUo ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1859. 

 No. 1916. 



Yar. strictissima. 



Leaflets narrower, the central ones ranging up to 2 by | in. 



HuiLLA. — Annual ; stem very strict ; flowers large, golden-yellow. 

 Frequent, in wooded meadows between Ferrao da Sola and Jau in the 

 territory of Lopollo ; a few specimens fl. without fr. end of March 

 1860. No. 1965. 



43. C. decumbens Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 33. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — On stony declivities alongside streams in the ele- 

 vated parts of Pedras de Gruinga ; sparingly in fl. March 1857. No. 1910. 



HuiLLA. — A perennial weak decumbent herb, with the flowering 

 branchlets ascending ; flowers yellow ; keel purplish ; in the more 

 elevated grassy places, by the sides of rocks, in Morro de Monino ; 

 fl. April 1860. No. 1909. 



44. C. uncinata Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 33. 

 HuiLLA.— A herb, 1^ ft. high ; stem ascending ; corolla yellow ; 



standard brown-orange ; keel very much bent and acute. In tall- grassy 



