198 XLiv. LEGUMiNOS^. [Crotcdaria 



branchlets spinous ; flowers yellow. On the dry slopes of the moun- 

 tains of Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. and fr. July 1855. On the more 

 elevated slopes of the last ridge of Queta on the right-hand side of the 

 Ambaca road, above Camilungo ; fl. and fr. beginning of June 1856. 

 No. 1906. An undershrub, like Ononis, with yellow flowers and 

 inflated ellipsoidal pods borne on spinous twigs ; Sange ; fr. May 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 369. 



HuiLLA. — Stems whitish, erect or ascending. In the drier thickets 

 near Lopollo, at the right bank of the river, in company with a dwarf 

 species of Myrtacese (cf. Herb. No. 4392) ; fl. and fr. March and 

 beginning of April 1860. No. 1908. 



15. C. cistoides Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 18. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — Leaflets ranging up to 1 in. long by J in. broad. 



In the wooded j^astures, burnt in winter-time, of Serra de Pedras de 

 Guinga ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 1928- 



HuiLLA. — A suffruticose herb, with the habit of a Cistns ; stems 

 erect, branched in a broom-like manner ; leaflets 3, sublinear, somewhat 

 hoary (ranging up to | by ^ in.) ; flowers yellow, nearly enclosed in the 

 calyx ; keel rather obtusely beaked, greenish-yellow ; standard longi- 

 tudinally marked with dark purple lines, orbicular, with a subtomentose 

 callus inside at the broad claw ; ovary stipitate, 3-2-ovuled ; pod 

 globose-turgid, usually 2-seeded ; in sandy thickets near the river 

 Monino, in rather dry places in company with species of Prntea ; fl. 

 and fr. 16 Feb. 1860 : flowers whitish turning to yellow; Empalanca, 

 April 1860. No. 1923. 



16. C. caudata Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 18. 

 PuNGO Andoxgo. — An undershrub, 2 to 2A ft. high, with the stem 



caudate at the apex ; sporadic, in sandy thickets near Sansamanda ; fl. 

 and fr. April 1857. No. 1933. A virgate erect undershrub, 2 ft. high, 

 with yellow flowers ; in gravelly situations in Serra de Pedras de 

 Guinga ; fl. Jan. 1857. No. 1944. 



17. C. variegata Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 19. 

 HuiLLA. — Root perennial ; stems several, spreading all round, 



prostrate ; flowers variegated ; keel and wings yellow ; standard deep- 

 violet. In bushy pastures, flooded in the rainy season, only between 

 Lopollo and Jau ; fl. and fr. end of March 1860. No. 1968. 



18. C. ervoides Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 19. 



HuiLLA. — Stems several from a woody rootstock. slender, decum- 

 bent, quite glabrous as well as the whole plant ; leaflets rigid ; flowers 

 pale-yellow with a tinge of violet. In marshy meadows, dried up at 

 the time of gathering, between Ferrao da Sola and Jau, in the territory 

 of Lopollo, in company with species of TrifoHum and Indignfera ; with 

 few fl. and with fr. April 1860. No. 1984. Fr. No. 4154. 



19. C. abscondita Welw. ex Baker in Oliv Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 19. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — In stony places near the fortress, rather rare ; 



fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 1927i. Coll. Carp. 536. 



HuiLLA. — An undershrub, 12 to 20 in. high, with the habit of a 

 Genista ; flowers small, yellow, almost entirely concealed by the calyx 

 and terminal leaves. In the drier rocky sparingly bushy hilly places 

 from Lopollo in the direction of Jau, and at Monino ; fl. and fr. end 

 of Jan., March and April 1860. No. 1927. 



