300 xLiv. LEGUMiNos^. [Iiitsia 



GoLUNt;o Alto. — A tree with the habit of Ceratonia SHiqua L., 15 

 to 28 ft. high ; crown ample, spreading ; branches patent ; branchlets 

 drooping ; leaves abruptly pinnate, 4 to 9- or even 10-jugate ; leaflets 

 coriaceous, yellowish-green and glossy above, glaucous beneath with 

 the yellowish midrib rather prominent ; calyx velvety, green, fleshy, 

 bibracteate at the base ; bracts large, rather fleshy, concave, obtuse ; 

 calyx-tube turbinate ; limb 4-partite, segments obovate-oblong, rather 

 rigid, concave, two opposite ones smaller than the others ; petal soli- 

 tary, inserted on the throat of the calyx, opposite to the carinal suture 

 of the ovary, with a long channelled green claw ; limb broadly obcor- 

 date or rarely 3 or 4-lobed, blood-red-scarlet inside ; more or less curved- 

 inflected as if protecting the ovary ; stamens 7 to 9, inserted with 

 the petal, variously bent or tortuous, more or less united at the base, 

 yellowish-green, 5 to 7 of them fertile ; anthers cordate, 2-celled, 

 longitudinally dehiscing ; ovary shortly stipitate, rather pilose, com- 

 pressed, curved in a sigmoid manner ; style arching ; stigma narrowly 

 capitate (as a thickened and truncate tip of the style), very delicately 

 papillose. Sobato de Bumba, at the margin of the forest, near Sange, 

 very rare, only one tree seen ; fl. beginning of Dec. 1855. The wood 

 is used for musical instruments. No. 628. Near Sange in wooded 

 situations, rare ; fl. Jan. 1855. Probably introduced into this district 

 from the banks of the river Cuanza, where it forms a prominent 

 feature in the character of the landscape. No. 593. Coll. Cakp. 490. 



PuNCio Andongo. — A tree, 12 to 25 ft. high ; crown depressed-dilated 

 in the form of an umbrella ; the lower branches nodding ; legume 

 woody, very hard, 6 to 9-seeded, many-celled, nearly two years old 

 when ripe ; seeds as hard as a stone. Common in wooded stations 

 along the banks of the river Cuanza ; from Sansamanda to Quisonde ; 

 fl. Jan. 1857, ripe fr. May 1857. Near Candumba ; fr. March 1857. 

 In company with Phoenix spinosa Schum. & Thoun., and with a 

 SYyedea oi Comhretutu. No. 594. Coll. Carp. 173. Legume dehiscent. 

 Candumba ; fr. March 1857. Coll. Carp. 489. 



73. CRYPTOSEPALUM Benth. in Bentb. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 

 p. 584. 



1. C. ? mimosoides Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 305. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A dwarf shrub, a few inches high, resembling in 

 habit Caaaia mimosoides L. ; stems erect ; flower-buds red or rose- 

 purple. At the margins of woods in bushy places near the great 

 cataract of the river Cuanza at Condo ; in young fl. March 1857. 

 No. 610. Scarcely a foot high, caespitose ; rootstock creeping ; 

 branches erect or ascending. In the shady mountainous parts of 

 woods composed of Muzamba (Herb. 571, see under Brac/n/stegia 

 tamarimhides Welw.), between Pedras de Guinga and Mutollo ; with- 

 out either fl. or fr. March 1857. No. 611. A small shrub, 4 to 6 in. 

 high ; branches erect from a thick woody horizontal rootstock. In 

 (mica-schist) stony places at the base of Pedras de Guinga, without 

 either fl. or fr., Jan. 1857. No. 612. 



74. BRACHYSTEGIA Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 

 p. 582. Uidelotia, sect. Brachystegia, Taub., vix Baill. 



1. B. spicaeformis Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. p. 312 (1865) ; 

 Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxvii. t. 22 (ramulus, J?f^. 1) 

 (1869); Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 306; Ficallio, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 155 (1884). 



