272 XLIV. LEGUMINOSiE. [Bolic/iolus 



Ohay, in company with various species of Crotalaria ; ripe fr. and few 

 fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 4072. 



Related to the Cape D. puherulus (Rhynchosia j^uherula Harv.), 

 differing by longer inflorescence ; also still more so to D. riscidulus 

 (RJujHchosia riscklula Steud.) from which latter it differs by shorter 

 petioles, longer and more oblong leaves, and shorter inflorescence. 



48. ERIOSEMA Reichenb. ; Bentb. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 543. 



1. E. psoraleoides G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. p. 348 (1832). 



E. cajanoides Hook. f. & Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 314 

 (1849) ; Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 227 ; Baker f. in 

 Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 144. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrubby bush, 5 to 6 ft. high, with a single 

 trunk and spreading branches above ; leaflets mucronate or cuspidate 

 with an obtuse apex, lateral veins reaching the margin ; stipules acute 

 or obtuse ; standard obcordate, emarginate, with an acute sinus. 

 Between Trombeta and Cabondo, Sept. 1854 ; N-delle in June ; on 

 hills in company with species of " Marianga " (Pemiisetuin) and 

 Aiidropogon, near Cacuse in Lower Queta, end of May 1855 ; in fl. and fr. 

 No. 4095. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In fl. and fr. (no notes). No. 4115. 



Bumbo. — In the wooded pastures of Bruco, in Serra da Xella, 

 sparingly ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 4118. 



HuiLLA. — An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, erect; flowers golden- 

 yellow. In the drier thickets of Monino ; fl. and fr. beginning of April 

 1860. No. 4117. 



2. E. ramosum Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 146. 

 HuiLLA. — A small shrub or undershrub, 1| to 2 ft. high, with yellow 



flowers. In thickets on the pastures of Morro de Lopollo ; fl. and very 

 sparingly fr. April 1860. No. 4116. 



Perhaps a variety of E. Jlemvigioidcs Baker ; see Baker f.. I.e., p. 236. 



3. E. andongense Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 148. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In wooded pastures at Sansamanda in Pedras de 

 Guinga ; fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 4119. 



The following No. perhaps belongs to the same species ; it differs 

 by having rather larger flowers with a shorter calyx : — 



HuiLLA. — Flowers yellow. Descent from Morro de Lopollo, near 

 Humpata, in thickets subject to annual burning ; sparingly fl. and fi-. 

 Dec. 1859. No. 4120. 



4. E. griseum Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 228 ; Baker f. 

 in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 227. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An undershrub, 2 to 3i ft. high, with yellow 

 flowers ; in fl. at Menha Lula May 1855. No." 4106. 



Zenza do Golungo.— a silky-hoary undershrub ; root thick, woody, 

 many-headed, perennial ; stems erect ascending or oblique ; leaves 

 softly coriaceous ; flowers deep-yellow. About 6 in. high ; an instance 

 of the depauperated vegetation of the mountains of this district. In 

 the drier stony parts of mountains, near Quicanda up to Tanderoxique, 

 in flower in Sept. 1854 : not uncommon in open rocky places on the 

 left bank of the river Xixe ; fl. Sept. 1857. No. 4104. 



Ambaca. — A silvery-hoary undershrub, J to 1 ft. high ; root thick, 

 woody, many-headed ; stems ascending, branched ; branches and 

 branchlets terminating in heads of yellow flowers. Habit nearly that 



