208 XLiv. LEGUMiNOS.E. [Indigofevct 



purple gland ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Sparingly in sandy thickets 

 along the margins of forests about the fortress near Sansamanda and 

 near the river Lombe ; fi. and fr. March and May 1857. Near Cazella ; 

 flower-bud Oct. 1856. No. 2006. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, apparently persisting for two or several years, 

 very widely csespitose and quite prostrate ; flowers splendidly scarlet- 

 red. Frequent in damp meadows, along the Catumba stream, by 

 hardened ant-hills ; fl. and very sparingly fr. Jan. and Feb. 1860. 

 No. 2008. 



5. I. nummularia Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 74. 

 Anil{a) nummularia O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 939. 



PuNGO Andoxgo. — Rootstock many-headed, woody ; stems 1^ to 

 2 ft. long, prostrate, much branched ; leaves obovate-orbicular. 

 Common and abundant in sandy places at the river Cuanza, the 

 banks of which it decks with its briUiant rose-purple flowers ; fl. and 

 sparingly fr. Jan. 1857. No. 2009. 



6. I. capitata Kotschy in Sitz. Akad. Wien LI. i. p. 365, t. 6a 

 (1865) ; Baker, I.e., p. 75. 



Anil{a) cajntata 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 939. 



Ambriz. — In thickets along the coast to the north of the city of 

 Ambriz ; fl. Nov. 1853. No. 2040. 



7. I. pulchra Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 1239 (1800) ; Baker, I.e., p. 76. 

 LOANDA. — A slender undershrub ; stems densely casspitose, the 



central ones erect, the lateral ones ascending, 1^ to 2^ ft. high, virgate, 

 furnished below with pinnate leaves and above with simple leaves ; 

 flowers bright red, fugacious ; calyx in the living state golden-tawny ; 

 frequent and polymorphic in sandy fields to the south of the city of 

 Loanda ; fl. and fr. October 1853 to March 1854 ; Alto das Cruzes, in 

 fruit and with very few flowers at the beginning of December 1858. 

 No. 2010- A shaded form ; in overhung roadways by their sandy sides 

 among bushes of leafless Euphorhki, with a few flowers and fruits in 

 March 1854. No. 2010&. 1 to 2 ft. high ; by fences of Euphorbia ; 

 fr. Oct. 1853. Coll. Carp. 457. 



Var. andongensis. 



A low spreading undershrub ; leaflets ranging in number up to 9. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Flowers bright scarlet. Abundant about the 

 fortress in dry thickets near the Luxillo bridge ; fl. April 1857. This 

 plant bears a close resemblance to /. Brassil Baker (/.c, p. 76), the leaves 

 of which however have a greater number of leaflets. No. 2047. 



8. I. pilosa Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Meth. Suppl., iii. p. 151 

 (1813); Baker, I.e., p. 82. 



Anil{a) pilosa O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 939. 



Loanda. — A slender annual or biennial herb, 1|- to 2 ft. high, with 

 the habitof aio^Ms; stems prostrate-ascending from a much-branched 

 base ; flowers very small, rose-coloured or rose-blood-red ; fully ripe 

 pods black. In sandy fields, abundant in the district to the south of 

 the city ; Museque of Luis Gomes ; fl. and fr. July 1858. In tracts 

 of FimhristyUs, near Quicuxe ; in fl. and fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 2022. 

 A prostrate annual ; flowers small ; petals deep-purple, very caducous. 

 In sandy places above the city, amongst plantations of Manihot utilis- 

 sima ; fr. April 1854. Coll. Carp. 377. 



