308 XLiv. LEGUMiNOS^. [Tefrapkura 



both ends from four-fifths way up. In primitive woods from Bango 

 Aquitamba towards Quilombo Quiacatubia ; fr. Oct. 1855. No. 1751 

 and Coll. Carp, 511. 



84. DICHROSTACHYS DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 592. 



1. D. nutans Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. p. 353 (1842); 

 Welw. Apont. p. 575, snb n. 176 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 333; 

 Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 382 (1875). 



Dichrostachis (sp.), Welw. Apont. p. 589, n. 66. 



Ambriz. — A shrub, 5 ft. high; leaves 4-5-iugate; leaflets 17-1 9-jugate. 

 Sporadic, at the rocky skirts of forests in the region of Mossul, between 

 Libongo and Ambriz, not far from the ocean, above the mouth of the 

 river Ongo ; fl. Nov. 1853. No. 1795. 



LoANDA, Barra do Bengo, and Icolo e Ben(;o. — Sometimes a small 

 tree of 10 to 15 ft., at other times a distorted shrub of 3 to 6 ft. ; bark 

 snow-white ; branches tortuous, spiny, divaricate ; flowers very elegant, 

 of an orange-rose colour, nodding. Common, in dry hilly places and 

 in groves of Adansonia^ etc., occasionally forming dense thickets, around 

 Loanda, Cacuaco, Quicuxe, Boa Vista, Imbondeiro dos Lobos, Foto, 

 Quifandongo, etc.; fl. Dec. 1853 and Julv 1854, fr. Oct. 1853, 10 August 

 1854, Sept, 1857, and Sept. 1860. No. 1796 and Coll. Carp. 512, 513. 

 To this may perhaps belong a specimen cultivated at Lisbon in July 

 1863 from Angolan seeds. No. 1796&. 



PuNGO Anuongo. — A tree, 25 ft. high, with divaricate branches and 

 dilated crown ; pinnag 7-11-jugate ; leaflets 14-17-jugate. In the less 

 densely wooded places, near Candumba, at the banks of the river 

 Cuanza ; fl.and young fr. March 1857. No. 1799. 



Bumbo. — A much-branched small tree, about 8 ft. high ; pinnae 

 5-7-jugate ; leaflets 18-24-jugate ; interjugal glands long-stalked. 

 Sporadic, in thickets near Bumbo, at the foot of the mountains of 

 Serra da Xella ; fl. end of Oct. 1859. No. 1798. 



Var. setulosa Welw. ex Oliv., I.e. 



HuiLLA. — A divaricately branched arborescent shrub ; pinnae 10-13- 

 jugate ; leaflets about 20-jugate, pilose and ciliate, with a setulose tip. 

 Sporadic, in hilly shrubby places, near Lopollo, at the foot of Morro 

 de Lopollo ; fl. Feb. 1860. No. 1800. 



Compare with this species the following, without either flower 

 or fruit : — 



Zenza do Golungo. — Calumguembo, Sept. 1854. No. 4155. 



2. D. platycarpa Welw. Apont. p. 576, sub n. 176 (1859); 

 W. Bull, Ketail List, 1866, p. 4; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 333; 

 Benth , I.e., p. 382. 



Golungo Alto. — A slender elegant tree, 10 to 15 ft. high or more, 

 with rambling tortuous elongated spreading branches ; pinnse of the 

 leaves 16-18-jugate ; leaflets about 22-jugate ; flower-spikes much 

 shorter than the leaves. Not uncommon, in mixed woods along the 

 river Delamboa, near Sange ; fl. Dec. 1855 and Jan. 1856, fr. Oct. and 

 Nov. 1854-5. No 1797. Branches with fully developed leaves, but 

 without either fl. or fr. April 18-55, Delamboa. No. 1797/>. Pods 

 flattened, spirally curved. In mountainous wooded places behind Senr. 

 Perreira's house near Canguerasange ; fr. Nov. 1854. Coll. Carp. 514. 

 A straight tree of 8 to 1 0, rarely 15 ft., Delamboa, fr. Coll. Carp. 515. 

 lu open woods; fr. 1857. Coll. Carp. 516. 



