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2. Z.bracteataGmel.Syst.A'eg. p. 1096(1791); Baker,^.c.,p.l59. 



HuiLLA. — Leaflets 4, lanceolate ; joints of the pod densely echinate. 

 Common in the elevated sandy-earthy pastures of the plateau of 

 Empalanca, often flooded in the rainy (summer) season, at an elevation 

 of about 5500 ft. ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 2116. 



25. MEIBOMIA Heister (1732) & ex Fabric. Enum. PI. Hort. 

 Helmstad. edit. 1, p. 168 (1759). Desmodium Desv. (1813); 

 Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 519. 



1. M. polygonodes O. Kuntze, Hev. Gen. PI. i. p. 198 (1891). 

 Desmodium 2)ol't/gonoides Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 



ii. p. 161. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A perennial herb ; root long, very tenacious, 

 thick, woody, many-headed ; stems a span long or shorter ; habit like 

 some small Polygonum ; leaves thin, re volute at the margins ; flowers 

 from whitish to violet ; pods deeply waved on both sutures. On dry 

 open rocks within the lines of fortification of Pungo Andongo, near 

 Luxillo ; fl. and fr. May 1857, rare. No. 2160. 



2. M. dimorpha 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 198 (1891). 

 Destnodium dimoiyhum Welw., I.e., p. 161. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, sometimes an undershrub, 1 to 2J ft. high, 

 pale-green or glaucous-ashy, branched from the base ; root perennial ; 

 stem sometimes simple below with branchlets at the apex, at other 

 times stems elongated quite simple ; leaves in some cases unifoliolate, 

 at other times trifoliolate ; leaflets usually folded, wonderfully variable 

 as to indumentum, \ to If in. long by ^ to tV in. broad. On the rather 

 elevated and dry hills of Sobato de Bumba, at an elevation of 2400 ft. ; 

 fl. and fr. May 1856. No. 2161. 



Pungo Andongo. — In gravelly thinly-bushy places between Quitage 

 and Bumba ; fl. and fr. March 1857. Leaflets 1 to 2 in. long. No. 2164. 

 A perennial herb ; stems thin, crowded, a palm high ; leaves on some 

 forms all unifoliolate, on other forms the lower ones unifoliolate and 

 the upper trifoliolate, the two forms being crowded together ; leaflets 

 ^ to 1\ in. long. On shortly-grassy slopes of the mountains of Serra 

 de Pedras de Guinga ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 2165. 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb ; stems decumbent-erect, scarcely a foot 

 high ; leaflets i to 1 in. long ; flowers white. In pastures with short 

 bushes and dense herbage, Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1859 and one 

 specimen in Feb. 1860. No. 2163. 



Yar. [i. argyrea (Welw. ex Baker, I.e.) 



HuiLLA. — Stem and petioles silvery-silky ; leaflets 1^ to 2\ in. long. 

 In stony thickets along the borders of forests between Catumba and 

 Ohay, in the camp of 15,000 Monanos ; in early fl. May 1860. No. 2162. 



This species is met with throughout nearly the whole of Angola, but 

 is said to be nowhere abundant ; it occurs also in the Mozambique 

 district and in the island of Madagascar. 



3. M. gangetica 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 196 (1891). 

 Desmodium gangeticum DC. Prodr. ii. p. 327 (1825) ; Baker, I.e., 



p. 161. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A small shrub, 3 to .^| ft. high : branches spread- 

 ing, elongate-virgate ; flowers violet-coloured. At the bushy borders 

 of the mountainous forest of Mata de Quisucula, about Bango 

 Aquitamba ; fl. and fr. April 1856. No. 2159. 



