Cleome] ix. capparidace;e. 27 



Pungo Andongo.— In fields planted with Zea Mays L. behind the- 

 fortress, occasional ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857. No. 948. 



It occurs also in dry sandy meadows, and, but not abundantly, in 

 moist pastures. 



2. C. ciliata Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. p. 294 (1827); 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Air. i. p. 78. 



G. guineensis Hook. fil. in Hook. Niger Fl., p. 218 (1849). 



Very variable in the size and breadth of the leaflets. 



Loanda. — An annual herb ; stems 1 to 4 ft. high, prostrate-ascending,, 

 acutely or almost alate-angular ; leaves constantly trifoliolate, lower 

 petioles long ; petals of a deep violet colour, very common in very dry 

 as well as in moist fields throughout the district ; Quicuxe, Teba, etc., 

 fl. and fr. 7 March 1858, June 1858, March 1854. No. 955. 



Golungo Alto. — Not uncommon in fields about Sange and Cami- 

 lungo, fl. and fr. March 1855. No. 956. 



Pungo Andongo. — Leaves 3- or 5-foliolate ; corolla deep violet or 

 purple. Not uncommon in sandy and in exposed shortly-grassy places 

 between Pungo Andongo and Sansamanda, fl. and fr. March and April 

 1857. No. 951. 



Huilla. — A slender annual, from a few inches to a foot high ; 

 primary stem straight, branches a little hairy, the lower ones ascending \ 

 flowers whitish-lilac, rather small ; buds purple ; capsules deflexed, 

 mucronate, strigulose with whitish glandular papillse ; in sandy 

 dampish pastures between Morro de Lopollo and Humpata, not 

 frequent, fl. and fr. end of Feb. and 21 March 1860. No. 957. In 

 sparingly grassy pastures near Lopollo, in the direction of Catumba,, 

 fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 9576. An annual herb, 3 to 4 ft. high, with 

 violet flowers. In bushy places and in previously cultivated places 

 hear Lopollo ; fr. March 1860. Coll. Caep. 85. 



3. C. diandra Burch. Travels i. p. 548 (1822), Cat. Geogr. n. 

 2103; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 79. 



Mossamedes. — A suffrutescent herb, becoming woody at the base ; 

 stem and leaves very thin ; leaflets 5 to 9, highly glaucous ; flowers 

 yellow to golden-tawny ; rather uncommon, in sandy places at the banks 

 of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros, fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 962. 



Var. pteropoda (Welw.) ex Oliv., I.e., p. 80. This variety is regarded: 

 by Oliver as a maritime condition of the type ; it is distinguished, 

 by its winged petiole and broader pods, and according to Welwitsch 

 the seeds are more densely furnished with little echinate spines. 



Mossamedes. — An annual or biennial herb, erect, 2 to 3 ft. high„ 

 highly glaucous ; flowers yellow ; petioles alate-dilated. Sparingly 

 in maritime sandy places, Cape Negro, between S. Joao do Croque 

 (Caroca) and Cazimba, fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 963. Branched 

 from the base, very glaucous, apparently perennial ; leaves 7 to 9, very 

 narrow ; flowers rather large, yellow. At Cabo Negro, in sandy places, 

 fr. 3 Sept. 1859. Coll. Caep. 205. 



The following is doubtfully referred to the same species ;. 

 Welwitsch suggested that it belongs to the variety pteropoda : — 



Libongo. — A perennial herb ; root woody, many-headed ; stem erect„ 

 branches ; leaves on long petioles, patently 5-foliolate ; leaflets linear, 

 very narrow, glaucous. Not unfrequent in dry elevated mountainous 

 places of Sob. de Libongo, near the petroleum-mine, without flowers, 

 or fruit Sept. 1858. No. 964. 



