Pseudai'th'ia] xliv. leguminos^. 245 



pyramidal manner towards the apex ; flowers violet-purple. Not 

 uncommon on the higher slopes of Serra de Alto Queta, in damp 

 places, among species of Andropogon and Pennisetum ; fl. and fr. May 

 1856. Xo. 2142. 



PuNGO Andongo. — ^A robust herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, erect ; stem simple 

 in the more robust individuals, loosely branched towards the apex ; 

 leaflets broadly or obscurely crenate ; flowers purple, sometimes violet, 

 very rarely whitish ; pods quite continuous inside. Common, in 

 elevated damp secondary thickets by streams near Caghuy within the 

 lines of fortification ; fl. Feb. fr. April and May 1857. No. 2143. 



3. P. crenata Welw. ms. in Herb. 



An erect herb, 2 to 2| ft. high, scarcely branched up to the 

 inflorescence; stem furrowed, hispid-pubescent, rigid, reddish- 

 brown ; leaves trifoliolate or the uppermost simple by abortion, 

 shortly petiolate, rather longer than the internodes ; petiole 

 shaggy, ^ in. long ; stipules narrowly linear-lanceolate, ^ to | in. 

 long ; leaflets oval-elongate, cuspidate-apiculate, subglabrous and 

 rather glossy above, pubescent beneath, the lateral leaflets sub- 

 sessile 2 to 3 by ^ to § in., the terminal leaflet 3 to 4 by f to | in. 

 on a petiolule of about g in. ; stipels similar to the stipules but 

 not half the size, deciduous ; inflorescence terminal, erect, rather 

 lax, half the length of the plant ; racemes arranged in a pyramidal 

 manner ; flowers purple, ^ to ^ in. long, on slender thinly pubes- 

 cent pedicels ranging up to ^ in. fascicled a few together ; calyx 

 half the length of the flower, thinly pubescent ; upper lip bidentate, 

 lower lip trifid ; stamens diadelphous, vexillary stamen free ; 

 anthers uniform, short, obtuse ; ovary pilose, linear-oblong, curved 

 at the apex; pods linear-oblong, 1 to 1| in. long by ^ to ^ in. 

 broad, flatly compressed, shortly pubescent at least on the crenate 

 margins, not articulated, about 5-8-seeded. 



HuiLLA. — In bushy places with tall herbage at the borders of forests, 

 along the river Cacolovar, near the great lake of Ivantala ; fl. and fr. 

 end of Feb. 1860. No. 2145. 



27. URARIA Desv. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 521. 



1. U. picta DC. Prodr. ii. p. 324 (1825); Baker in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. ii. p. 169; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 139 (1884). 



GOLUNGO Alto. — A very rough tenacious herb, scarcely shrubby. 

 2 to 8 ft. high, sometimes erect, at other times sarmentose-decumbent 

 or obliquely ascending or climbing amongst bushes ; rootstock woody, 

 very tenacious, oblique, 2 to 4 ft. long, thickened in a fusiform manner, 

 fibrous inside but remaining juicy, in much repute with the negroes of 

 this region as an aphrodisiac ; leaves rigid ; leaflets 1 to 9, usually 7, 

 subcordate at the base ; petals rose-coloured or violet, fugacious ; pod 

 moniliform, with 3 to 7 circular pearly obliquely placed joints, the 

 extreme one bearing the long persistent flaccid style. In thickets 

 alongside primitive forests, here and there throughout the district, as 

 for instance near Sange and at Mussengue : fl. April and May 1855, 

 and July and August 1856 ; Avithout fl. beginning of December 1855 ; 

 fr. August 1856. Native name " Caiala camoxe," or " Camoxo-caiala," 

 that is, "always a boy." No. 2111. 



Ambaca. — A herb apparently perennial, in some cases scarcely a foot 



