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5. C. Tora L. 8p. PI. edit. 1, p. 376 (1753); Oliv., I.e., p. 275; 

 Benth., I.e., p. 535 (1871). 



GoLt'NGO Alto. — A suflfi-uticose herb, occasionally an annual, 2 to 

 3-| ft. high, glaucous, with golden-yellow flowers. In grassy thickets 

 between Bango and Mata de Quisuculo ; fl. and fr. May 1856. No. 1734. 

 An erect branched herb, 1 to U ft. high, with pari-pinnate 3-jugate 

 leaves and yellow flowers marked with green veins, a summer form in 

 Feb. 1855 ; also a winter form sending forth further lateral flowering 

 branches in August 1855 ; near Bango Aquitamba. No. 1734/j. An 

 under>hrub, 2h to 4 ft. high, with orange-yellow flowers ; fr. 30 Sept. 

 1856. Coll. Carp. 480. Annual or biennial ; stem straight, branched ; 

 leaflets broad, obovate, very obtuse, glaucous, in 2 or 3 pairs. In hilly 

 situations near Quibixe ; fr. end of Sept. 1855. Coll. Carp. 481. 



6. C. didymobotrya Fresen. in Flora, 1839, p. 53; Oliv., Z.c, 

 p. 27b; Benth, I.e., p. 551 (1871). 



C. bracteosa Welw. ex W. Bull, Retail List, n. 14, p. 4 (1866); 

 Oliv., I.e., p. 277. Cassia (sp.), Welw. Apont. p. 588. n. 61. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — Flowers saffron-yellow, large ; bracts very large, 

 black with a bluish tinge. In reedy thickets and exposed wooded 

 places, near Sange and in Sobato de Quilombo Quiacatubia at an eleva- 

 tion of 2400 ft., flowering 2 or 3 times a year ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1855 and 

 August 1856. No. 1735. A shrub, 5 to 10 ft. high ; flowers deep-yelloW; 

 crowded in very long spikes. In thickets at Canguerasange ; fr. Oct. 

 1854. Coll. Carp. 477. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A shrub or small tree, 5 to 8 ft. high, with very 

 handsome golden-coloured flowers ; fr. Oct. 1856 and June 1857. 

 Coll. Carp. 171. 



7. C. obovata Collad. Hist. Cass. Med. p. 92, t. 15, A. (1816); 

 Oliv., I.e., 277 ; Benth., I.e., p. 553 (1871); Ficalho, PL Uteis, p. 153. 



Mossamedes and Benguella. — A perennial prostrate glaucous herb, 

 flowering the first year ; peduncles shorter than the leaves ; flowers 

 yellow ; pods elongate-reniform, wedge shaped at the base, 3 to 4 times 

 longer than broad. At Praia da Amelia near the city of Mossamedes, 

 also in sandy places on the coast near Benguella ; fl. and fr. June 1859. 

 No. 1726- Stems prostrate in a circle ; leaves glaucous ; legumes lunate- 

 falcate, compressed, with a crested line running along each face. In 

 sandy places near the city of Benguella ; fr. June 1859. Coll. Carp. 108. 



8. C. Absus L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 376 (1753); Oliv., I.e., p. 279; 

 Benth., I.e., p. 558. 



Ambriz. — A viscid-glandular herb. In rough bushy places near 

 Quisembo ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. No. 1730. 



LOANDA. — An annual herb, 1 to 2 ft. high, branched from the base ; 

 leaves abruptly bijugate ; flowers yellow. In sandy hilly places with 

 short herbage, above the city of Loanda near Alto das Cruzes, hardly 

 in full fl. Dec. 1853. Also in groves of Euphorhia, sporadically in 

 grassy sandy and clayey places between Teba and Cacuaco ; fr. Dec. 

 1858. No. 1731. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A herb, 2 to 3 ft. high or more, with glaucescent 

 leaves and yellow flowers. On the dry mountainous pastures of the 

 Serra de Alto Queta, in company with species of A?idropogon and 

 Gladiolus ; fl. and fr. Feb. and again end of June 1856. No. 1732. 



PuNGO Andon(;o. — In sandy-clayey shortly-bushy hilly places on the 

 left bank of the river Lutete ; fl. and fr. June 1857. No. 1733. 



