Meibomict] xliv. leguminos^. 241 



4. M. lasiocarpa 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 196 (1891). 

 Desmodium lasiocarpum DC. Prodr. ii. p. 328 (1825) ; Baker, I.e., 



p. 162. 



GoLUNCJO Alto. — An erect shrub, usually 3 to 4 ft. high ; branches 

 sometimes nearly erect and firm, at other times weak and spreading ; 

 flowers violet-coloured ; abundant in secondary thickets by the road- 

 side between Trombeta and Cambondo ; fl. and young fr. Sept. 1854. 

 An erect shrub, 3 ft. high : stems gregarious, erect, sparingly branched ; 

 at the borders of the dampish forests of Sange, near Camilungo, at an 

 elevation of 2400 ft. ; fl. April 1855 and 1856. A form with the leaves 

 attenuate not cordate at the base. A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high ; branches 

 erect, virgate ; flowers of a deep-violet colour ; abundant, in secondary 

 thickets, both in damp and very dry spots, near Bango Aquitamba ; fl. 

 and fr. June 1856. No. 2157. 



The following No. was referred by Baker, I.e., p. 162, to M. 

 gangetica ; but it was considered by Welwitsch a variety of M. 

 lasiocarpa, with the leaves attenuate at the base ; the leaves are 

 obscurely repand and not quite entire : — 



Prince's Island. — On the lower wooded slopes of the mountain 

 called Pico de Papagaio ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 2158. 



5. M. adscendens 0. Kuntze, Pvev. Gen. PI. i. p. 195 (1891). 

 Besmodiicm adscendens DC. Prodr. ii. p. 332 (1825) ; Baker, I.e., 



p. 162 (aseendens). 



HuiLLA. — Perennial ; habit and mode of growth like those of some 

 species of Medtcago ; root many-headed ; stems slender, 2 to 3 ft. 

 long, decumbent, from the base up to the apex beset with crowded 

 subdistichous slenderer branchlets which bear shoots at the apex r 

 flowers from orange to purple : pods when thoroughly ripe in the 

 living state yellowish. In damp sandy pastures and marshy thickets 

 alongside streams, as for example the Quipumpunhime, and on the road 

 from Ferrao da Sola to Jau ; fl. and ripe fr. beginning of April 1860. 

 No. 2153. 



6. M. hirta O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 198 (1891). 

 Desmodium hirtum Guill. et Perr. in Guill. Perr. et A. Rich. FL 



Seneg. Tent, (i.) p. 209 (1833); Baker, I.e., p. 163. 



GoLVNGO Alto. — A perennial herb, prostrate, rooting : flowering 

 shoots ascending ; flowers violet-coloured. In damp spongy places and 

 alongside streams, near the springs of Capopa near Sange, and Sobato 

 de Quilombo, common ; fairly abundant in marshy and shaded places 

 covering extensive tracts and somewhat resembling clover, but then 

 permanently short and rarely flowering ; fl. and fr. Feb., March and 

 July 1854 and 1855. No. 2150. Joints of the pod almost orbicular. 

 In marshy primitive forests, Sobato de Mussengue ; fl. and fr. Jan. 

 1856. No. 2152. A perennial, much-branched herb ; branches elon- 

 gated, sub-sarmentose, climbing among bushes ; stems 3 to 4 ft. long, 

 weak, purple, but on account of the shaggy indumentum turning ashy, 

 as also the leaves, in the living state ; flowers small, rose-violet and 

 variegated with white. In marshy places, swamps and ditches at the 

 banks of streams along the Ambaca road, about a league and a half 

 from Sange ; fl. and fr. beginning of June 1856. No. 2154. 



Prince's Island. — Along rivulets in shady places, at the foot of Pico 

 de Papagaio, at about 8000 ft. alt., in company with Caladium bicolor 

 Vent. ; without either fl. orfr. Sept. 1853. No. 2151. 



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