262 XLiv. LEGUMiNos.i:. [Botor 



eaten by the negroes in the same manner as those of Macundi. In 

 thickets near the river Lifune ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. Coll. Cakp. 432. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb with its stem suifruticose at the base, 

 twining or climbing far and widely ; leaves and habit of a Stizolohiuni, 

 but the stem leaves and pods entirely free from stinging hairs ; leaflets 

 of the younger specimens not rarely marked with broad yellowish- 

 green spots ; flowers bright-violet, hardly smaller than those of Pisum 

 sativum L., but much contracted in drying ; anthers ovate-oblong, 

 abruptly acuminate, 2-celled ; membranes of the cells thick, swelled ; 

 pods like those of a Tetracjonnlohui^ (a section of the genus Lotus), 

 straight, 1| in. long, rather thick and compressed, turning quite black 

 when ripe, dehiscent, 2-winged on each suture (therefore the whole pod 

 4-winged) ; wings broad, membranous ; seeds several, as big as small 

 peas, intercepted by partial dissepiments. Abundant and almost every- 

 where by damp thickets and neglected palm-groves, especially near the 

 river Quibolo ; fl. and scarcely ripe fr. April 185G. Road by Bango, 

 June 1856. No. 2280. In thickets near Candombo. Coll. Carp. 431. 



45. DOLICHOS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 209. 



1. D. Lablab L. Sp. PL edit. 1, p. 725 (1753); Baker in Oliv- 

 n. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 210; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 143 (1884). 



Lahlab cuUratus Welw. Apont. p. 590, n. 85. 



Loan DA. — A perennial herb or at least lasting for three years ; root- 

 stock woody, many-headed ; stems numerous, sarmentose, scandent, 

 constituting very dense extensive low thickets, scarcely 3 ft. high ; 

 flowers sometimes purple, sometimes sulphur-yellow or variegated ; 

 seeds black, eaten by the negroes. By stagnant pools, at the banks 

 of streams, and in moist bushy fields, about Quicuxe, Imbondeiro 

 dos Lobos, Represa de Manuel Perevia, etc. ; certainly indigenous ; fl. 

 Dec. 1853, in fr. Feb. and April 1854 ; fl. and young fr. 7 July 1854. 

 No. 2200. 



Barka do Bencio. — A prostrate much-branched far-procumbent 

 herb, annual and also persisting for several years, or at least biennial ; 

 runners far-creeping or somewhat twining ; stems greenish, as also the 

 petioles and peduncles ; standard reflexed from the claw, folded back 

 on the sides, violet-purple ; wing-petals appressed to the keel, violet- 

 purple ; keel falcate upwards through a right angle, closely including 

 the essential organs, whitish ; style patently bearded on the side facing 

 the standard ; stigma waxy-fleshy, capitate-obtuse ; pod 1^ to 1^ in. 

 long, i in. broad, finely transversely wrinkled, whitish-brown, scimitar- 

 shaped, typically 5-seeded, evidently muriculate on the upper suture, 

 obsoletely so on the lower suture, somewhat hooked at the apex ; seeds 

 oblong-elliptical, but little compressed, dark brown and indistinctly 

 black-spotted. Not uncommon, in moist thickets from Quicuxe towards 

 Cacuaco ; fl. and fr. end of July 1858. No. 2201. Coll. Carp. 433. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, sometimes prostrate with the flowering 

 shoots somewhat ascending, at other times widely climbing and 

 twining ; flowers bright, purple-violet ; calyx 4-lobed ; the upper lobe 

 broad, the 3 other lobes linear-lanceolate, very acuminate ; style 

 compressed, bearded beneath below the truncate stigma ; pod densely 

 tomentose, at length when fully ripe whitish-woolly. In bushy places 

 at the borders of forests between Sange and Sobato Bango Aquitambe ; 

 fl. and fr. 1 May 1850. No. 2204. A much elongated herb, very 

 widely climbing upon the ground and on neighbouring shrubs ; flowers 

 violet- painted. In palm groves by the river Quiapoze ; July 1855 ; 

 fl. and fr. No. 2204&. 



