264 xLiv. LEGUMINOS.E. [BoUchos 



lanceolate ; flowers whitish. In sandy woods near Cazella, within the 

 fortified lines of Pungo Andongo ; fl. 18 Oct. 1856. No. 2321. 



Mr. Baker, I.e., refers in a note to another plant, which he 

 states may possibly come in here ; the next following No. appears 

 to be the plant referred to : — 



HuiLLA. — An erect rigid herb, with the habit of Cajanus, 1 to IJ ft. 

 high ; root perennial, tuberous ; stems more or less pubescent, leafy 

 above ; leaves pinnately trifoUolate, shortly pubescent ; stipules 

 lanceolate, j to |^ in. long, pubescent outside, glabrous within ; petiole 

 J to J in. long ; stipels lanceolate, rs- to ^ in. long, about equalling the 

 lateral petiolules, central petiolule -j.\f to i in. long ; leaflets lanceolate, 

 usually apiculate, three-ribbed, 2 to 3J in. long, J to J in. broad, the 

 central one rather larger than the lateral ones ; peduncles axillary, 2 or 

 3 together, each 1-flowered, ^ to i in. long, pubescent ; bracts filiform ; 

 calyx I in. long, pubescent, cleft below the middle, the upper lobes 

 connate nearly to the apex ; lobes acute, narrow upwards ; pod 1^ in. 

 long, ^ in. broad, shortly pubescent, 4-6-seeded ; seeds J in. long, 

 obovoid. In rather dry bushy pastures between Lopollo and Jau ; one 

 plant ; fr. April 1860. No. 4126. 



6. D. andongensis Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 213. 



Pungo Andongo. — A quite glabrous bright green climbing herb ; 

 stem slender ; flowers violet and purple, variegated ; pods much com- 

 pressed, falcate, gradually broader towards the apex ; septa thin, 

 membranous, sub-fugaceous. Sparingly, in damp forests, near 

 Candumba, in company with Oxytenaiithera ahyss'm'ica Munro (Welw. 

 Herb. No. 1134) ; fl. and ripe fr. end of March 1857. No. 2207. 



7. D. densiflorus Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 214. 



HuiLLA. — A herb ; root thick, woody, many-headed, sub-tuberous ; 

 stems several, 1 to 3 ft. high, erect or ascending, mostly sparingly 

 branched from the base ; leaves trifoUolate ; leaflets coriaceous ; 

 stipules costate-striate on the inner surface ; flowers deep-yellow, 

 condensed in short axillary many-flowered racemes ; bracts and 

 bracteoles obtuse ; calyx two-thirds cleft in a bilabiate manner ; 

 vexillary stamen at length quite free, deciduous with the standard ; 

 style gradually subulate. In woods along streams, between Monino 

 and the great lake of Ivantala ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1859. No. 2218. 



8. D? Dongaluta Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 214; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 143 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A perennial herb ; root thickly tuberous, with 

 cracked bark fleshy fibres and exuding purple resin ; stems 1 to 2 ft. 

 long, several from the same root, erect, angular, glabrous, not seen in 

 full development ; leaves trifoUolate, stipellate ; leaflets inconspicuously 

 hispidulous beneath along the raised nerves, otherwise quite glabrous ; 

 flowers violet-purple, arranged on axillary peduncles in a fasciculate 

 manner, racemose ; peduncles much shorter than the leaves, but appear- 

 ing before the full development of the leaves ; bracts rather broadly 

 ovate, with several nerves ; bracteoles at the base of the calyx or on 

 the middle of the pedicels, very narrow, subulate, caducous ; calyx 

 thinly membranous, purple-punctate inside, shortly campanulate ; 

 teeth deltoid, abruptly subulate at the apex, the two upper ones con- 

 nate high up ; standard orbicular, with two auricles above the claw and 

 again below the lamina ; auricles oblong, obtuse, directed upwards ; 

 wing-petals narrowly obovate, equalling the keel and slightly adhering 

 to it ; keel curved inwards, not beaked, rather obtuse ; vexillary stamen 



