228 XLIV. LEGUMINOS.E. [MiUettia 



banks of the Luinha, fl. Dec. and Jan. ; nearly ripe fr. Coll. 

 Carp. 459. 



5. M. urophylla Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 129. 

 Phaseolodes urophyllum 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 202. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A robust arborescent twining shrub, climbing to 

 a great height, rambling over the crowns of trees, 5 to 6 ft. high in the 

 thickets, 20 to 30 ft. high in the dense forests, in open ground standing 

 as a little shrub, evergreen ; trunk 2 to 2J in. diam., more rarely 3^ to 

 4 in. ; leaves, according to Welwitsch, resembling those of the tree 

 " Mu9umba " ; flowers about h in. long, of a deep violet-rose colour ; 

 calyx bibracteolate at the base, velvety, shining with a golden-tawny 

 gloss, sub-bilabiate-campanulate ; upper lip somewhat bidentate ; 

 lower lip tridentate ; corolla regularly jiapilionaceous, more or less of 

 a rose colour ; standard ovate-rounded, clawed, pubescent and sordid 

 whitish-yellow outside, rose-coloured and spotted with green above the 

 claw inside ; wings of a deep rose colour, with a long claw, partly 

 adhering to the keel ; keel-petals free up to the middle, cohering 

 towards the apex where the keel is puberulous with golden-tawny 

 pilose hairs, in other respects altogether rose-coloured ; stamens 10, 

 much thickened and of a deep blood-purple colour at the base, in other 

 parts white ; the vexillary stamen free, the 9 other stamens connate in 

 a half cylinder curved upwards at the apex, all fertile ; ovary sessile, 

 girt by a disk of moderate size, compressed, appressed-hairy, falcate ; 

 ovules several ; pods very similar to those of MiUettia versicolor Welw., 

 and as in them promptly dehiscing when fully ripe. Frequent in the 

 primitive forests around Sange and Mussengue, etc. ; fl. March, Oct. 

 and Nov. 1855, fr. Nov. and Dec. 1855. No. 1851. 



The following No. should be compared with this species, and 

 with M. macrojihylla Benth. in Hook. Ic. t. 788-9 (1848), a species 

 which much resembles the former and may perhaps be identical 

 with it : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub as tall as a man, perhaps becoming sub- 

 sequently a tree ; leaves evergreen, chartaceous, glossy and deep-green 

 above, whitish almost silvery-shining beneath, very delicately pellucid- 

 punctate. In the tliickets of Sobato de Mussengue ; without either 

 fl. or fr. August 1855. No. 6687. 



6. M. nudiflora Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 130; 

 Fiealho PI. Uteis, p. 132 (1884). 



Phaseolodes nudijlorum 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 202. 



Goll'ngo Alto. — A vast beautiful tree, 30 to 40 ft. high, or a small 

 tree of 15 ft. ; trunk usually obliquely erect : branches spreading, some- 

 times pendulous, tuberculate : branchlets nodding, leafless or nearly so 

 at the time of flowering ; leaflets softly and thinly coriaceous, almost 

 fleshy, deep-green and shining above, velvety-jjubescent beneath ; 

 inflorescence ranging up to a foot in length ; flowers of a brilliant 

 violet-purple colour, crowded, covering as it were the whole tree ; 

 calyx brown-black at the base, red-brown from the middle of the tube 

 up to the limb, bilabiately 5-toothed ; standard obovate, hardly exceed- 

 ing the wings and keel ; erect or sub-reflexed at the time of flowering ; 

 callus green, furnished with 2 larger and other smaller glands, which 

 however are sometimes obsolete ; wings and keel of the same length, 

 densely ciliate on the claws and at the base of the laminas ; stamens 10, 

 diadelphous ; the vexillary one free, curved in a sigmoid manner at the 



