Damapana] xliv. leguminos^e. 237 



an elevation of about 4000 ft., above that occupied by jlfyrothamnus 

 flahelUfoUus Welw. ; fl. and fr. end of March 1857. No. 2138. 



HuiLLA. — An annual herb, scarcely a span high, with somewhat the 

 habit of the small species of Phyllanthu^, branched from the base in an 

 ascending manner ; leaves alternate, pinnate, very highly sensitive, the 

 leaflets after being touched quickly lying together along the common 

 rachis ; flowers in little cymes at the apex of the stem and branches, 

 white, deflexed-nodding ; bracts rather large, glandular at the margin, 

 glands long-pilose, hairs solitary hyaline ; ovary scarcely or very shortly 

 stipitate, bi-ovulate. Frequent in very elevated, rather spongy meadows 

 on the Humpata plain, also on the highest parts of Empalanca in com- 

 pany with species of Eriocaulon and Gentianacese, etc. ; fl. but not yet 

 in fr. 2 April 1860. No. 2139. 



2. D. seschynomenodes 0. Kuntze, Kev. Gen. PL i. p. 179 (1891). 

 Smithia ceschynortienoides Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 153. 

 Htjilla. — An erect shrub, 2 to 2J ft. high, setose-hispidulous ; leaflets 



ranging up to 17- jugate, sensitive ; flowers purplish, quickly turning 

 yellow ; bracteoles 2, opposite, horizontally spreading at the base of the 

 calyx ; calyx bilabiate, the upper lip emarginate, the lower lip trifid ; 

 all the lobes rounded ; standard with a rather long claw ; ovary 

 stipitate, 2- very rarely 3-ovulate ; pod 2-jointed, 2-seeded, retracted 

 within the calyx ; joints smooth, rather compressed. In damp, grassy 

 places along the borders of forests, at a place called O Monino or 

 Moninho ; fl. and young fr. April 1860. No. 2136. A slender hispidu- 

 lous undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; stipules thin, scarious, whitish, very 

 caducous ; in grassy places along rivulets near Catumba, sparingly ; 

 not yet in fl. March 1860. No. 2136&. 



The following No., without either flower or fruit, should be 

 compared with this species and may belong to it : — 



HuiLLA. — An undershrub, 3 ft. high, wholly glandular-pilose, with 

 quite the habit of the species of Dama'pana of this district, and with 

 glaucescent sensitive leaflets ; in grassy places at the banks of the river 

 Cacolovar between Ivantala and Quilengues ; not yet in fl. end of Feb. 

 1860. No. 2140. 



3. D. strobilantha 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 179 (1891). 

 Smithia strohilanthcL Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p, 154. 



HuiLLA. — A low shrub ; stems woody, branched from the base : 

 branches straggling, often decumbent, flexuous, hard, tenacious, with 

 glandular spreading shaggy hairs ; leaflets in three pairs, glabrous, 

 glaucous beneath, about 5-nerved from the base, oblique, veins between 

 the nerves transverse ; petiole shaggy ; stipules not produced at the 

 base of the compact strobile. Frequent enough in thickets on a dry 

 sandy-clayey very hard soil, with short grass, near Ferrao da Sola, in 

 the Lopollo territory ; fl. May 1860. No. 2137. 



4. D. strigosa 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 179 (1891). 

 Smitlda strigosa Benth. in PL Jungh. p. 211 (1852); Baker, I.e., 



p. 154. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, erect ; stem and branches clothed 

 with strict hispid hairs bulbous at the base ; leaves sensitive ; flowers 

 of two colours in the living state, orange-coloured in the dry state ; 

 standard and wing-petals violet, keel yellow ; ovary often bi-ovulate, 

 appressedly pilose ; style moderately curved, compressedly dilated up 

 to the apex, shorter than in the other species. Not uncommon in 



