jEschynomene] xliv. leguminos^. 235 



6. M. pygmsea Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Ti-op. Afr. ii. p. 148. 

 HuiLLA. — A dwarf, viscid-glandulcar, hispidulous, copiously flowering 



undershrub, 3 to 7 in, high, growing in a caespitose manner ; stems 

 branched from the base, muricate, yellowish ; branches erect, bearing 

 at the apex many-flowered racemes ; stipules lanceolate, rigid, scarcely 

 drawn out at the base, persistent ; leaflets 10-15-jugate, terminating 

 with a seta ; flowers deep-orange-yellow, brilliant, about ^ in. long ; 

 bracts fugacious ; ovary bi-ovulate ; joints of the fruit half-orbicular, 

 glabrous. In thinly-bushy sandy pastures, along the borders of forests, 

 in company with species of Thesi/nn and Thunhergia, near Mumpulla, 

 towards Nene, at an elevation of about 4000 ft., and seen nowhere else ; 

 fl. and sparingly fr. end of Oct. 1859. No. 2180. 



7. M. glabrescens Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii.p. 148. 

 HuiLLA. — A herb, |^ to 1 ft. high, growing almost in a caespitose 



manner ; root thick, woody, several-headed ; stems branched from the 

 base, purplish, pluri-sulcate, remotely hispid ; flowers orange-coloured. 

 In the elevated sandy, sparingly bushy, somewhat damp pastures of 

 Empalanca, but rather rare ; only a few specimens seen in flower and 

 fruit, the rest barren ; fl. and fr. end of March 1860. No. 2177. 



8. m. fulgida Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 149. 

 HuiLLA. — A little erect shrub, 2 to 2^ ft. high ; stem and branches 



bright-purple, viscid in the living state ; flowers of a fulgid-orange 

 colour when fresh. The most beautiful of all the species of this genus 

 in Angola. Abundant on the bushy slopes of Morro de Lopollo in the 

 direction of Humpata, on mica-schist, at an elevation of about 5200 ft. ; 

 fl. and ripe fr. April 1860. No. 2178. 



9. M. bracteosa Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 150. 

 HuiLLA. — A hard rigid slender erect undershrub, l^ to 2 ft. high ; 



stems purplish ; branches rather patent ; leaves glaucous ; stipules 

 very fugacious ; flowers golden or saffron-yellow ; bracts glandular- 

 toothed, persistent even after the fall of the fruit ; ramifications of 

 the inflorescence muricate. Not uncommon, at an elevation of about 

 4000 to 5000 ft., in shortly bushy pastures near Humpata ; fl. and ripe 

 fr. end of March and beginning of April 1860. No. 2176. 



10. M. tenuirama Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 150. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — A slender erect shrub, 2 to 3^ ft. high ; stems 



several, virgately branched ; stipules lanceolate, not drawn out down- 

 wards at the base, fugacious ; leaflets 15-20-jugate, not with raised 

 lateral nerves beneath ; petioles as well as the branches glandular- 

 pilose ; racemes terminating the paniculate branchlets ; flowers deep- 

 yellow, J to ^ in. long. Frequent at the bushy borders of primitive 

 forests between Mutollo and Candumba ; fl. and fr. March 1857 ; at an 

 elevation of 3800 to 4000 ft. No. 2181. 



Var. p. sculpta Welw. ms. in Herb. 



Leaflets 30-50-jugate, with 6 to 10 raised secondary nerves on 

 each side of the midrib beneath ; flowers few, deciduous. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In exposed primitive woods at the banks of the 

 river Cuanza ; scarcely in full fl. Feb. 1857. Nos. 21816, 2182. 



Var. y. huillensis Welw. ms. in Herb. 



An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, either erect or ascending at the 

 base, virgate, very elegant ; stems simple at the base, towards the 



