Cassia] XLiv. leguminos^e. 293 



9. C. Grantii Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 279 ; Benth., I.e., p. 571. 

 Var. pilosula Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 280. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A slender undershrub, 2 to 5 ft. high, patently- 

 branched ; stems '2 to 4 from the crown of the perennial root, scarcely 

 as thick as a raven's quill, rather terete, tenacious, purplish, sometimes 

 sub-erect sub-simple and 2 ft. high but usually ascending, brancbed at 

 the base with elongated subscandent branches of 1 to 2 ft. and then the 

 stems attaining 4 to 5 ft. ; branches always horizontally decumbent or 

 leaning on the neighbouring little shrubs ; stems petioles stipules and 

 all parts of the inflorescence except the corolla slaaggy or ciliate with 

 sparse thin rather long whitish pilose hairs ; leaves mostly 5-()- jugate ; 

 leaflets oblong or obovate-oblong, rotundate-obtuse, mucronulate, 

 glabrous but very thinly setjse-ciliate on the margin, glaucescent. 

 Plentiful but seen only in one spot, in bushy wooded places at the 

 skirts of Mata de Quisucula ; fl. and fr. April 185G. No. 1722. 



10. C. mimosoides L. Sp. PL edit. 1, p. 379 (1753); Benth., I.e., 

 p. 579; Oliv., I.e., p. 280. 



C. gracillima Welw. Apont. p. 590, n. 88. 



Ambkiz. — In wooded places near Quibanga ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. 

 No. 1709. 



Luanda. — Very common, in hilly places covered with herbage (and 

 formerly ornamented with Hyphceiie thebaica Mart), near the city of 

 Loanda, fl. and fr. Jan. to March 1854. Alto das Cruzes, fully in fr. 

 April and beginning of May 1854. No. 1710- A very slender and 

 elegant shrub, 1 to 1^ ft. high, with a Mimosoid habit. Between 

 Bemposta and Camuma, in fr. 18 May 1859, in pastures ; fr. Coll. 

 Carp. 478. 



6oLUN<;o A.LTO. — An ascending undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; leaves 

 50-60-jugate ; flowers yellow. In the drier parts of the smaller thickets 

 of Sobato de Bumba, amongst tall herbage ; fl. and fr. April 1856. 

 No. 1711. In groves of the oil-palm, near the river Quango ; fl. May 

 1865, rather rare. No. 17116. 



Ambaca. — An undershrub or almost a small shrub ; root long, 

 straight, very thin, woody-fibrous ; stems ascending or prostrate ; pods 

 linear, black. In shortly bushy sandy pastures, at an elevation of 

 2900 ft., between the river Lucala and Halo ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. 

 No. 1712. A strictly erect undershrub, very pretty, 3 to 4 ft. high, 

 sparingly branched ; branches erect-subpatent ; flowers yellow. 

 Sparingly in hilly thickets from Puri-Cacarambola in the direction of 

 N-gombe ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 1713. A little shrub, 2 to 3 ft. 

 high ; fl. Oct. 1856, fr. June 1857. Coll. Carp. 479. 



PuNGo Andongo. — An undershrub, from a few inches to 3 ft. high, 

 always erect. Among herbage near Sansamanda by the banks of the 

 river Cuanza ; fl. Feb. 1857. No. 1715. In the borders of woods near 

 Condo, at the great cataract of the river Cuauza, one specimen ; fl. March 

 1857. No. 1714. From the thick rootstock 10 to 20 stems ascending. 

 Frequent, in moist meadows at the base of Serra de Pedras de Guinga, 

 in company with species of Scleria, Iridepe, etc.; fl. and fr. March 1857. 

 No. 1716. 



Huilla. — A tender herb, ever erect but soon dying ; a small-leaved 

 form ; flowers pale-yellow. Very common, in damp wooded meadows 

 between Catumba and Monino on the left bank of the river LopoUo : 

 fl. and fr. March and April 18G0. No. 1717. A dwarf perennial herb, 

 2 to 3 in. high, with numerous stems ; rootstock fleshy-subtuberculate. 

 In hilly bushy pastures, rather dry but at times irrigated with copious 



