248 XLIV. LEGUMINOSiE. [Abl^S 



stream near Sange, and by the Banza de Quilombo ; ripe fr. June 1856. 

 No. 2248. 



2. A. canescens Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 175. 



Cazengo. — An undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, clothed with appressed 

 pubescence throughout, much branched, with long weak twining or 

 intricate branchlets ; young leaves with a silvery lustre, adult leaves of 

 different colours on the two surfaces, pubescent on both surfaces, 

 hoary beneath ; leaflets 16 to 22 ; pods compressed, yellowish-green, 

 mostly 6-8-seeded, not seen fully ripe, 1^ to 1| in. long by ^ to f in. 

 broad. In dense thickets along the banks of the river Moembege, near 

 Dalatanda ; fr. June 1855, at an elevation of 2000 ft. No. 2249. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A weak slender widely climbing undershrub ; 

 branches thin ; flowering branchlets very long, virgate-sarmentose, 

 more or less hoary-pubescent as also the leaves and bracts ; leaflets 20 

 to 26 ; flowers arranged on a not thickened axis in remote spurious 

 Avhorls, of a deep- violet-purple colour ; pods If to 2 in. long, % to f\ in. 

 broad, compressed, about 8-seeded, yellowish-brown in the living state, 

 appressedly pubescent, not seen . fully ripe. In rocky bushy places 

 along the base of the gigantic rocks of Pungo Andongo fortress, near 

 Canandua and near the road leading to Cambonde. rather rare ; fl. and 

 young fr. April 1857, at an elevation of 3800 ft. No. 2250. 



Baker, I.e., p. 176, regarded the Cazengo plant as probably a diff'erert 

 but closely allied species. 



32. CLITORIA Dillen., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 528. 

 1. C. Ternatea L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 753 (1753) ; Baker in Oliv. 

 PI. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 177. Cf. Robiniacea, Welw. Apont. p. 590, 

 no. 36. 



LoANDA. — An apparently annual herb ; stem at first erect, here and 

 there twining from the sarmentose branched base ; flowers large white ; 

 frequent in dried up clayey fields flooded in the summer, between 

 the city of Loanda and Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. July and Dec. 1858. An 

 undershrub, woody at the base : stem abbreviated ; branches virgate- 

 elongated, twining ; pods whitish, chartaceous, linear, rather compressed, 

 somewhat torulose between the seeds ; between Teba and Quicuxe ; 

 fr. July and August 1858. A herb, apparently lasting for several 

 years but scarcely perennial, sometimes prostrate but mostly scandent ; 

 flowers whitish with a very pale-yellow tinge ; calyx bi-bracteolate, 

 tubular, gradually dilated, at the base with 5 prominent thick nerves, 

 gibbous, equally and deeply 5-clef t ; standard large, much exceeding 

 the wing-petals and keel : stamens 10, diadelphous ; ovary elongate- 

 oblong, softly pilose ; style rather compressed, sigmoid-curved at the 

 base, bearded below at the apex ; in rather dry sandy places, near 

 Maianga do Povo and de El Rei, climbing on species of Euphorbia and 

 RhlpsaUs ; fl. end of Dec. 1858. No. 2215. An undershrub ; flowers 

 whitish, handsome. A form with narrow leaves. On plains flooded 

 in the rainy season, near Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. June 1854. No. 2215^. 

 An annual or biennial herb ; stem branched, twiggy ; leaves pinnate ; 

 flowers large, white. In fields after a crop of maize ; Quicuxe, f r. June 

 1860. Coll. Carp. 458. 



Barka do Bengo. — A heterophyllous form. In bushy places at the 

 banks of the river Bengo, near S. Antonio ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853. 

 No. 2216. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — On bushy hills, on a red-clay soil, near Sange, 

 fl. and fr. May 1855 and August 1857. No. 2217- 



