Dolichos] XLIV. LEGUMINOS.E. 263 



PuNGO Andongo. — A poor specimen in fl. and young fr. No notes. 

 No. 4128. 



MosSAMEDES. — A tall herb, widely climbing ; leaves rather rigid, 

 deep-green ; flowers yellow, rather large ; seeds eaten by the negroes. 

 In reedy places and amidst shrubs in damp places about the mouth of 

 the river Giraiil ; fl. and fr. 18 July 1859. No. 2202. Coll. Carp. 434. 



2. D. biflorus L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 727 (1753) ; Baker, I.e., p. 210. 



LoANDA. — Weak ; flowers solitary, of a deep-sulphur colour ; pods 

 membranous- or cellulose-septate inside, afterwards 1-celled. On 

 rather dry elevated hills near Mutullo above Quicuxe, rare, climbing 

 on low plants of Eujjhorbia ; in sparse fl. and in ripe fr. May 1854, 

 No. 2212. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An annual herb ; stems rooting at the base, soon 

 twining ; flowers yellow. On dry sparingly grassy hills of Serra de 

 Queta Occidental (Moangue), at an elevation of 2400 ft.; fl.and young 

 fr. March 1856. No. 2210. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shaggy herb ; stem procumbent-twining, 

 extremities scandent ; flowers whitish-yellow. Sparingly, in rather 

 sandy dampish pastures, between Lombe and Quibinda (or Cabinda), 

 at an elevation of 3800 ft. ; fl. and young fr. March 1857. A variety, 

 according to Baker, I.e., p. 211. No. 2209. 



3. D. axillaris E. Mey. Comment. PL Afr. Austr. Dreg. p. 144 

 (Dolichus) (1836); Baker, I.e., p. 211. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A slender twining herb ; leaflets deep-green, 

 membranous ; flowers green ; petals all herbaceous-green at first, at 

 length gradually somewhat sulphur-yellow. In plantations of Manihot 

 utilissima Pohl, at the base of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, 

 near Undelle ; fl. and young fr. end of April 1856. No. 2211. 



HuiLLA. — A herb, prostrate at the base ; stems at length twining, 

 climbing on low shrubs ; flowers pale-yellow. In shortly bushy rather 

 dry pastures between Eme and the great lake of Ivantala, rather 

 sparingly ; fl. and young fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 2208. 



4. D. rupestris Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 212. 



HuiLLA. — Root woody, many-headed, penetrating the stony soil or 

 clefts of the rocks with its firm elongated fibres ; stems prostrate, 

 somewhat flexuous, extending ; leaves and yellow flowers secund 

 downwards ; pods long and gradually acuminate. In stony places and 

 in the clefts of rocks, along the borders of forests, near MumpuUa, at 

 an elevation of 4000 ft. ; fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859. No. 2219. 



5. D, stipulosus Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 212. 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb ; root somewhat woody ; fibres stout 

 tubercle-shaped, nearly filipendular ; stems erect or ascending, 4 to 6 in. 

 long, sparingly branched, flexuous, shortly tomentose ; leaves trif olio- 

 late ; leaflets obovate-lanceolate ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, broad, 

 persistent, as well as the stipels nerved-striate or rather lined-sulcate ; 

 flowers yellow yellowish or whitish ; style gradually subulate, thinly 

 pubescent ; stigma capitate. Sparingly, in the elevated shortly bushy 

 pastures of Empalanca, on the highest parts of Morro de Lopollo, at an 

 elevation of 5000 ft. ; fl. and very young fr. Nov. 1859. No. 2220. 



The following No. seems to be a taller form of this species ; it is 

 a unique specimen : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect herb, 15 in. high ; lower leaves simple, 

 upper leaves trifoliolate ; stipules the length of the petiole ; leaflets 



