44 xiv. POLYGALACBiE. [Polygala 



and in grassy places, at the borders of woods, by the banks of the river 

 Cuanza ; ft. and fr. Oct. to Dec. 1854. No. 999. 



Pungo Andongo. — An annual rather hirsute erect herb ; flowers 

 whitish with a tinge of purple ; in wooded pastures between Condo 

 and Bumba, only one specimen in flower March 1857. No. 1002. 

 Flowers almost entirely white ; exterior sepals white-green, interior 

 sepals milk-white, greenish in the middle ; corolla whitish, fimbriae of 

 the crest long, filiform ; not uncommon in damp meadows by the banks 

 of the river Cuanza, near Mopopo, fl. and f r. April 1857. No. 1007. An 

 annual erect herb ; leaves membranous, beneath pale-green turning 

 whitish ; flowers milk-white ; wings white-green ; corolla almost alto- 

 gether whitish ; fruit orbicular-obcordate, narrowly winged towards 

 the apex, hispid-ciliate on the winged margin. In secondary thickets, 

 formerly wooded, between the rivers Caghuy and Cuanza ; fl. and fr. 

 Jan. 1857. No. 1016. 



6. P. LMngstoniana Chodat, I.e., ii. p. 339, t. xxvii. fig. 38. 

 Htjilla. — Wings and corolla whitish. In wooded meadows, the 



trees chiefly consisting of Proteaceaz and Syzygium, in the territory of 

 Moninho (or Monino) ; fl. and fr. beginning of April 1860. No. 1025. 



7. P. Stanleyana Chodat, I.e., ii. p. 340, t. xxvii. fig. 39 ; var. 

 angustifolia Chodat, I.e. 



G-olungo Alto. — On the more elevated grassy slopes of Sobato de 

 Quilombo-Quiacatubia, at an elevation of about 2200 ft. ; sporadic ; 

 fl. and fr. 1855. No. 9995. 



Pungo Andongo. — Wings whitish- greenish ; corolla rose-coloured. 

 In wooded meadows, between Condo and Quisonde, not far from the 

 right bank of the river Cuanza ; fl. March 1857. No. 1011. Sepals 

 green ; wings whitish ; keel, etc., whitish or pale violet. In elevated 

 shortly grassy pastures among the mountains of Serra de Pedras de 

 G-uinga ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 1017. An annual herb, erect, 

 sometimes rigidly so ; leaves bright green ; racemes very densely spicate- 

 imbricate ; flowers whitish-greenish, larger than in No. 1017 ; the three 

 outer sepals herbaceous-green ; wings obliquely obovate, whitish, green 

 at the base ; corolla whitish ; keel crested ; capsule emarginate, hispidu- 

 lous-ciliolate ; seeds clothed with rather rigid hairs directed down- 

 wards ; caruncle large, whitish. In wooded meadows, at the banks of 

 the river Cuanza, near the islands called Ilhas de Calemba ; fl. and f r. 

 March 1857. No. 10176. 



Chodat founds this species partly on Welwitsch, " No. 1015 « pro 

 parte " ; but the whole of the No. 1015 in the British Museum set is, 

 on the authority of Dr. Chodat himself, P. Welwitschii /3 ovatifolia 

 Chodat, as quoted below. 



8. P. Welwitschii Chodat, I.e., i. p. 127, ii. p. 341, t. xxvii. fig. 40. 

 P. armaria var. andongensis Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 128. 



a linearifolia Chodat, I.e. 



Pungo Andongo. — An annual slender herb, branched from the base ; 

 branches ascending ; leaves linear, membranous, bright green ; flowers 

 green-purplish ; a variety not noticed in the district of Golungo Alto ; 

 in rocky sparsely grassy places, among the more elevated gigantic rocks 

 of Pedra de Cazella, within the lines of fortifications ; fl. 18 Dec. 1856. 

 No. 1008. In grassy hilly places at the great cataract of the river 

 Cuanza, near Condo ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 10086. Annual ; 

 stem short, densely branched ; branches divaricate- ascending ; flowers 

 from white to violet-greenish ; in dampish grassy thickets by the road 



