Amerimnon] xliv. leguminos^. 277 



the base ; teeth one-third the length of the calyx, the two upper teeth 

 broader, the lowest tooth narrower and a little longer than the rest ; 

 corolla glabrous ; standard obcordate, as long as the auriculate wings, 

 with a rather broad claw ; keel much shorter than the wings, the two 

 petals cohering at the top of the back ; stamens divided into two equal 

 phalanges, or the upper one free ; anthers uniform, versatile, all 

 fertile ; ovary narrowly oblong, compressed, glabrous except the 

 sparingly hairy edges, stipitate ; ovules few ; style glabrous, at first 

 slightly afterwards hookedly incurved. In rocky dry sparingly bushy 

 places above the village of MumpuUa ; only one plant fl. Sept. 185'J. 

 No. 1883. 



50. DREPANOCARPUS G. F. W. Meyer; Benth. & Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. i. p. 54G. 



1. D. lunatus G. F. W. Meyer, Prim. Fl. Esseq. p. 238 (1818) ; 

 Welw. Apont. p. 587, n. 39 (1859) ; Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 ii. p. 237. 



LiBONGO. — A small tree, 10 to 15 ft. high, tortuously and much 

 branched, beset with stipular reflexed geminate spines ; leaflets obovate, 

 emarginate ; flowers violet-purple, sweetly scented. At the banks of 

 the river Lifune (otherwise called Lufune), near its mouth, in near 

 company with Elihophorue, frequent ; fl. and young fr. middle of Nov. 

 1853. No. 1873. 



Barra do Dande. — Common as a shrub, rarer as a small tree of 8 

 to 15 ft. At the marshy margins of the river Dande, near Barra do 

 Dande, in company with Acivstichum aureum L. No. 1874. An 

 arborescent shrub with purplish flowers ; fr. Sept. 1858. Coll. Caki'. 

 436. (A unique specimen.) 



51. PTEROCARPUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 547. 



1. P. mellifer Welw. Synopse, p. 14, n. 31 (rneliferus) (1862); 

 Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 239 {melliferus) ; Ficalho, PL 

 Uteis, p. 145 (1884) {melliferus). 



Lingoum melliferum 0. Kuntze Bev. Gen. PL i. p. 193 (1891). 



PuNGO AxDONG(^. — One of the handsomest trees of the primitive 

 forests, usually 50 to SO ft. high, occasionally 100 to 120 ft. high, 

 exuding a blood-red resin ; trunk H to 3 ft. in diam. at the base ; 

 crown much dilated, in the form of a parasol, towering over all the 

 other trees of the forest ; when in flower it is always frequented by 

 dense swarms of bees, and the negroes prefer to fasten their hives to 

 the lower branches of the crown of this tree ; wood apparently strong 

 and durable ; petiolules tumid, not rarely thicker than the petiole, 

 rather downy ; panicles divaricately branched, broadly pyramidal ; pod 

 obliquely ovate, a little curved, apiculate, glabrous on both sides, with 

 raised reticulation in the centre. Native name " Mulumba." Abundant 

 in the woods of the district, and still commoner in the Songo district 

 and on the left bank of the river Cuanza and in the Haco country and 

 in that of the Quibundos. From Sansamanda to Quisonde ; fl. March, 

 fr. May 1857. No. 1865. 



2. P. tinctorius Welw. Apont. p. 584, n. 7 (1859); Baker, I.e., 

 p. 239; Ficalho, I.e., p. 146 (1884). 



Pterocarpus (sp.), Welw. Synopse, p. 8, nn. 5, 7 ; p. 9, n. 15; 



p. 33, nn. 85, 86 (1862). Lingoum tinctorimn O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 193. 



LiBONGO. — A handsome tree with the habit of Ceratonia Siliqua L. ; 



