Crotalao'ia] xliv. leguminos^. 203 



wooded pastures and meadows, between Ferrao da Sola and Jau, at an 

 elevation of 5500 ft. ; fl. and young fr. March and May 18(jO. No. 1974. 



45. C. comosa Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 34. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — Flowers yellow ; keel pale-sulphur ; standard 



deep yellow marked with dark-purple lines ; in low thickets at the 

 base of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. May, fl. and fr. end 

 of July 1855. No. 1959. A herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, scarcely branched, 

 nearly always with a single stem ; flowers yellow, densely spicate ; pods 

 in ripening imbricated downwards ; not common, on the grassy slopes 

 of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, above N-delle ; fl. and young 

 fr. beginning of April 1856. No. I960. In the wooded meadows of 

 Muangue near N-delle ; fl. and young fr. June 1850. A form with the 

 leaflets sub-oval instead of sub-linear. No. 1961. 



Cazengo. — An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, sparingly branched ; 

 flowers j-ellow ; in rather dry grassy places, at the skirts of forests, 

 among the mountains of Serra de Muxaula ; fl. and ripe fr. June 1855. 

 No. 1960&. 



46. C. iiatalitia Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot. ii. p. 67 

 (1843); Baker, Z.c, p. 34. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In sandy thinly shrubby thickets, between 

 Quibinda and Quitage ; fl. March 1857. No. 1970. 



47. C. protensa Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 35. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — A decumbent herb, with stem 2 to 4 ft. long and 



brilliant yellow flowers. In damp pastures near Condo at the great 

 cataract, and near Quitage ; fl. without fr. March 1857. No. 1929. 



48. C. intermedia Kotschy in Sitzungsb. Acad. Wien, 1864, 

 p. 362, t. 3 ; Baker, I.e., p. 37. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In rather damp fields of Pliaseolus and at the 

 skirts of palm-groves, near Sange and Bango, frequent ; fl. and fr. Feb. 



1855. On bushy hills near Sange towards Camilungo ; fl. and fr. April 



1856. No. 1956. An annual erect branched herb, with yellow flowers ; 

 several specimens monstrous, the inflorescence being rendered abnormal 

 by the attack of insects ; at the margin of the forest, Sobato Cabanga- 

 Cacalunga ; fl. and young fr. beginning of June 1856. No. 1985. 



Amp.aca. — In hilly situations near the river Lucala, Oct. 1856 ; no 

 specimen separated for the British Museum. No. 1958. 



49. C. Saltiana Andr. Bot. Eep. x. t. 648 (1811-12); Br. in 

 Salt, Yoy. Abyss., App., p. Ixv. (1814). 



C. striata DC. Prodr. ii. p. 131 (1825); Baker, I.e., p. 38. 



LoANDA AND Barra DO Bengo. — An erect herb, 2 to 3 ft. high ; 

 branches patent-ascending ; keel of the corolla yellowish ; wings and 

 standard orange-coloured. Not uncommon, in bushy places along the 

 sea-shore between Barro do Bengo and Cacuaco, fl. end of Sept. 1858 ; 

 in grassy places near Cacuaco, with few fl. and with ripe fr. Dec. 1853 ; 

 Praia de Zamba Grande Feb. 1858 ; July 1854. No. 1953. Annual and 

 biennial, not rarely suffrutescent ; branches patent ; leaves pinnately 

 trifoliolate ; racemes acute, pyramidal, yellow. In maritime sandy 

 situations at Praia de Zamba Grande; fr. Jan. 1859. Coll. Carp. 370. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An ascending or erect herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; 

 flowers yeUow, marked with purple-velvety lines ; in moist places at 

 the banks of the river Coango ; fl. and fr. May 1855. A herb, 

 occasionally suffruticose, 4 to 6 ft. high, branched towards the apex ; 



