306 XLiv. LEGUMiNOS.E. [Gigalohmm 



Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 364; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 173 (1884). 

 Pusmtha ahyssinica O. Kuntze, I.e. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tree of 15 ft. ; trunk nearly 1 ft. in diam. at 

 the base. In the elevated forests of the mountain Cungulungulo ; 

 only two trees seen, fl. end of Nov. 1855 ; young fr. end of Feb. 1856. 

 Local name "MUS090." No. 1781. A tree in the primitive forests 

 of the mountain Cungulungulo (Montalegre), at the top, 2 Feb. 1855 ; 

 seeds scattered on the ground. Coll. Carp. 521. A small tree of 

 8 to 10 ft. ; head very widely spread and elegant ; pods flattened ; 

 layers separating from the replum ; seeds with a fibrous-cartilaginous 

 wing-shaped membrane. Bark officinal. Called " Mugoso." In wooded 

 thickets near Sange, abundant ; fr. August 1856, and June and August 

 1857. Coll. Carp. 506. A handsome tree of middle height, with the 

 habit of the frondose acacias. In mountainous situations between 

 the rivers Zenza and Lombixi ; fr. July. Native name " Mussoxi." 

 Coll. Carp. 507. 



HuiLLA. — A handsome and pretty tree, 20 to 35 ft. high, or some- 

 times scarcely 10 ft., broadly leafy ; flowers yellow, scented. Abundant 

 in the more open woods between Lopollo and Catumba ; fl. Dec. 1859. 

 Called "Musoso." No. 1782. A small tree, about 15 ft. high, the 

 matrix of several plants of Lonaithns (cf. Welw. No. 4890). In Mata de 

 Monino in very mixed open woods, in company with species of Protea, 

 Eugenia, Combretace^, etc. ; fl. Nov. and Dec. 1859, fr. April 1860. 

 No. 17826. A widely frondose tree, 25 to 30 ft. high, with spicate- 

 racemose yellow flowers. In forests near Lopollo ; fr. Dec. 1859. 

 Coll. Carp. 508. 



Var. microphylla Oliv., I.e., p. 328. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A little tree, 8 ft. high. In secondary woods 

 with tall bushes, between Sange and Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. Febr. 

 and March, fr. July and beginning of August 1855. No. 1780. 



This species is probably the plant referred to by Welwitsch, Synopse, 

 p. 33, n. 82, as a species of Acacia, and described as a small tree and 

 very frequent in stony situations in Golungo Alto ; the bark is called 

 " Casca de Musoso," and is employed by the negro doctors as a decoc- 

 tion in cases of pains in the chest and especially in chronic coughs. 



82. PIPTADENIA Benth. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 589. 



1. P. africana Hook. f. ex Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 330 

 (1849) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 328 ; Benth. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxx. p. 370 (1875); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 173 (1884). 



Golungo Alto. — A tree 20 to 35 ft. high (in secondary woods 

 15 to 25 ft. high), patently and sparingly branched ; branches elongated ; 

 wood excellent : glands of the petiole ; pedicels as long as the calyx ; 

 flowers glabrous, arranged in paniculate crowded spikes of about 3 in. 

 in length, yellowish-green ; calyx cupola-shaped, repand-dentate at 

 the mouth with 5 distinct teeth ; anther-gland large, sub-quadrate, 

 fugacious ; ovary substipitate, glabrous ; ovules about 10 to 15 ; legume 

 I to 1 ft. long, an inch broad, compressed, bivalved ; valves cohering 

 by one edge after the fall of the seeds : seeds surrounded by a broad 

 membranous wing. Frequent in mountainous forests throughout the 

 district, especially between Sange and Undelle, etc.; fr. June 1855, 

 fl. Jan. 1856 ; near Bango Aquitamba, Jan. 1855 ; Fundo de Undelle at 

 the end of May 1856. Native name " Pdo Musence" or " Muzungo " 

 or " Muneunza." No. 1774. In the dense primitive forests of the 



