260 XLiv. LEGUMiNos^. [Vigua 



whitish pale- sulphur colour ; "vving-petals violet-purple ; keel whitish. 

 Very rarely spontaneous, at the edges of fields ; very frequently 

 cultivated throughout the district. Near Alto das Cruzes and in the 

 island of Cazanga Maringa do Povo ; fl. end of Feb. 1858. No. 2272. 



LiBONGO. — Frequently cultivated and subspontaneous, at the banks of 

 the river Lif une, in moist fields ; fl. and young f r. Sept. 1 858. No. 2272/>. 



GoLUNG(3 Alto. — An annual herb, sometimes prostrate on the 

 ground, at other times twining and climbing ; flowers yellowish or 

 the standard yellow-violet, wing-petals violet ; keel whitish-yellowish ; 

 seeds dark-purple. In fields throughout the district, and more or less 

 cultivated in nearly all mountainous parts ; occasionally spontaneous ; 

 fl. and fr. at Sange in May 1856. Native name " Macundi " (plural), 

 " Licundi " (singular). No. 2273. Sange, frequently cultivated, and 

 also spontaneous ; seeds July 1856. Coll. Carp. 422. Two crops 

 in a year, in April and Dec. ; frequently cultivated from Sange to 

 Trombeta. Coll. Carp. 423. 



17. V. glabra Savi, Obs. Gen. Phased., Mem. iii. p. 8 (1825). 

 V. luteola Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. I. p. 194, t. 50, f. 2 

 (1859); Baker, ?.c., p. 205. 



HuiLLA. — A slender, widely climbing herb, with yellow-violet- 

 variegated flowers ; in damp meadows near Catumba ; fl. and young 

 fr. April 1860. No. 2267. Along wooded thickets near the great lake 

 of Ivantala, sporadic ; fl. and young fr. Feb. 1860. No. 2267^. 



Yar. (B. villosa. V. villosa Savi, I.e., p. 9. V. luteola, var. ^, 

 Baker, I.e., p. 206. 



GoLUXGO Alto. — Twining, puberulous or hispidulous ; flowers 

 yellow, standard orange-red, pubescent ; in damp palm-groves, 

 Mussengue, between Sange and Bango, by the road, along streams ; 

 fl. and ripe fr. 1 May 1856. No. 2255. A twining herb, climbing 

 high ; racemes very acute ; flowers violet-purple, mostly set two 

 together in the axil of a papilliform body ; in the wooded thickets of 

 stream Quibolo, rather rare, Arimo do Mariano ; fl. and young fr. 

 April 1856. No. 2256. A hispid rather rigid climbing herb ; flowers 

 soon after opening beautifully blue before midday, but after some 

 hours' exposure to the sun becoming red or violet ; in the wooded 

 thickets of the primitive forest of Quisuculo ; fl. April 1856. No. 2256^. 



The following No. is of quite uncertain species, but must be 

 compared with this ; it is represented in the British Museum set 

 by a drawing and a detached flower : — 



Ambaca. — A perennial herb, at the time of collection in flower but 

 entirely destitute of foliage, about 3 in. high ; flowering stem some- 

 what hairy with downward hairs ; flowers rose-violet. In the rather 

 dry pastures near N-gombe ; Oct. 1856. No. 2265. 



42. VOANDZEIA P. Thouars ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 207. 



1. V. subterranea P. Thouars ex DC. Prodr. ii. p. 474 (1825). 

 Welw. Apont. p. 573; Baker, I.e., p. 207; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 142 (1884). 



GoLUNGo Alto. — Cultivated, ratlier rare ; seeds in Oct. 1854. 

 Coll. Carp. 427. 



PuNfiO Andongo. — Flowers smaller than described in Fl. Trop. 

 Af r , I.e. Rather rarely cultivated about Caghuy and Bumba ; not 



