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GoLUNGO Alto. — A widely climbing herb, in habit of foliage 

 resembling a species of Lygodhua ; flowers reddish. In the wooded 

 thickets of Mato de Quisuculo ; fl. and young fr. April 1855 ; at an 

 elevation of 2400 ft. No. 2251. 



PuNGO Andongo. — Leaflets rather rigid ; flowers violet-purple. In 

 grassy woods near Mopopo, at an elevation of 3800 ft.; fl. 30 April 

 1857. No. 2252. 



5. V. golungensis Baker in Oliv. Fl, Trop. Afr. ii. p. 199. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — A scandent or prostrate herb, with yellow flowers. 



In wooded places on a sandy schist, near Mussengue ; fl. without fr. 

 April 1856. No. 2271. 



6. V. capensis Walp. in Linnsea xiii. p. 533 (1839). 



V. vexillata Benth. in Mart. M, Bras. sv. I. p. 193, t. 50 f. 1 

 (1859); Baker, I.e., ii. p. 199. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A twining herb, remarkable for the hairiness of 

 all parts except the corolla and also for the elongated teeth of the calyx ; 

 standard of a dirty- violet colour longitudinally overrun with rather 

 raised dark-purjjle veins ; wing-petals blue-violet ; keel pale-violet, 

 almost whitish. Not common, in grassy places, at the borders of the 

 primitive forest of Sobato de Mussengue ; fl. and young fr. 24 May 

 1856. No. 2253. A twining herb, climbing far but not high ; flowers 

 violet-coloured ; rather rare, at the skirts of the reed-beds and thickets 

 of Sobato de Bumba, near the house of Luis Pereira ; fr. 17 Feb. 1856. 

 No. 2275. Flowers violet-purple ; by the road at the skirts of the 

 primitive forests of Sobato de Mussengiie ; fl. and young fr. May, in 

 ripe fr. June 1856. No. 2276. 



MossAMEDES. — Flowers large, violet-coloured ; standard much curved 

 inwards. In fields planted with Saccharum ojjicinarum L., near Boa 

 Vista ; one specimen ; fl. and fr. July 1859. A form with leaflets 

 1^ to 21 by f to If in., all rounded at the base. No. 2270. 



Var. ? albiflora (Welw. ms.). 

 Flowers white. 



MossAMEDES. — At the banks of the river Bero (Rio das Mortes) near 

 the town ; fl. June 1859, fr. June 1860. Coll. Cakp. 426. 



7. V. phaseoloides Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 200. 

 PuNGo Andongo. — Flowers about 1 in. long, violet-purple ; calyx 



.T in. long ; pods narrowly linear, subulate-apiculate. In bushy pastures 

 by the river Cuanza at the borders of forests, in company with two 

 species of Protea, between Sobato Bumba and the Condo cataract ; 

 fl. and fr. in the rainy season, March 1857. No. 2269. 



8. V. platyloba Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



A decumbent herb, at length twining-scandent, often 3 to 6 ft. 

 long ; rootstock thick, perennial ; stems ascending at the base and 

 not rarely erect to the height of 2 to 3 ft. ; branches straggling, 

 remote, elongated, at length climbing, curved, more or less angular, 

 thickly beset with short downward hairs from a small bulbous or 

 glandular base ; leaves pinnately trifoliate ; common petiole hairy 

 like the branches, firm, | to 2:|^ in. long ; stipules lanceolate, i to 

 I in. long, hairy outside with upward hairs; stipels ovate, obtuse, 

 nearly glabrous but wdth small sessile glands, small ; central leaflet 

 irregularly rhomboid or oval in general outline, very obtuse, 



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