236 XLiv. LEGUMiNos.^. [.Escliynomene 



apex with crowded slender branches ; branchlets filiform, bearing 

 racemes at the apex ; stipules lanceolate, enlarged at the base 

 with an acute auriculate tooth, but scarcely spurred; leaflets 

 about 40-jugate, subcordate at the base ; common axis remotely 

 spinulose beneath ; petiolule compressed- flat ; flowering branches 

 pyramidally paniculate towards the apex of the stem ; flowers 

 golden yellow. 



HuiLLA. — Rather sparingly in shortly-bushy pastures between None 

 and Humpata ; fl. and fr. April 1860 ; at an elevation of 4800 to 5000 ft. 

 No. 2183. By streams near Lopollo ; fr. Dec. 1859. Coll. Carp. 446. 



11. ^. debilis Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 150. 

 HuiLLA. — An undershrub ; stem 2 to 3 ft. long, thin, weak, half 



scandent ; branches crowded, elongated, lying on neighbouring shrubs : 

 stipules not spurred at the base ; inflorescence glandular- viscid ; flowers 

 yellow. In bushy damp places at the skirts of forests along the road 

 leading from Lopollo in the direction of Jau, at an elevation of about 

 5000 ft. ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 2175. 



12. M. dimidiata Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 151. 

 HuiLLA.— An undershrub, 2 ft. high : stems several, sub-erect or 



obhque ; branches elongated, bearing ;vt the apex paniculate racemes ; 

 stems branches petioles and branchlets of the inflorescence glandular- 

 viscid hispid and muricate ; leaflets 25-50-jugate, glaucous, glabrous, 

 dimidiate, one side being abortive or very naiTow and the principal 

 nerve sub-lateral ; flowers yellow, ^ to J in. long. On bushy hills, in 

 damp places, with tall herbage, between Nene and Lopollo, at an 

 elevation of 5000 ft. ; fl. and ripe fr. end of May 1860. No. 2179. 

 Leaves sensitive, viscid ; flowers rarely fruiting. Mumpulla ; fr. 

 1 June 1860. Coll. Carp. 447. 



13. JE. siifolia Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 151. 

 PuNGO Andongo. — A strictly erect herb, 3 to 5 feet high ; stem 



sub-simple, very rough with acute crowded papillae (but the upper part 

 nearly smooth on the di'ied specimen) ; stipules not spurred at the 

 base, leaflets 30-35- jugate, those towards the apex of the common 

 axis gradually smaller, the extreme ones very small ; the leaves, 

 especially the stem ones, rather resembling in this respect those of 

 some species of Shtm ; flowers yellow. In damp places amidst reeds 

 and in palm-groves consisting of PhctJi/x redhmta Jacq., along the 

 marshy banks of the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda, at an elevation of 

 about 3800 ft. ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857. No. 2174. 



21. DAMAPANA Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 323 (1763). Smithia 

 Ait. (1789); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 516. 



1. D. capitulifera O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PI. i. p. 179 (1891). 



Smithia capitulifera Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl, Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 152. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An annual erect gregarious herb, a palm high, 

 branched from the base ; stem and branches flowering at the apex, with 

 spreading pilose hairs ; leaflets 6-7-jugate, highly sensitive to the touch ; 

 the upper calyx-teeth longer than the lower ones, all acute ; standard 

 shortly unguiculate ; ovary scarcely or very shortly stipitate, bi-ovulate ; 

 pod hyaline-membranous, bi-articulate, drawn back within the calyx. 

 Frequent in the marshy pastures of Serra de Pedras de Guinga, at 



