Crotalaria\ xliv. lequminos^b. 201 



purple dots at the apex ; pod oblique, 1£ by f in. In secondary 

 thickets, in open places, at the right bank of the river Cuanza, near 

 Mapopo ; fl. and fr. 21 Jan. 1857. No. 1979. 



3G. C. goreensis Guill. et Perrott. El. Seneg. Tent. p. 165 (1832) ; 

 Baker, I.e., p. 28. 



Golungo Alto. — A herb, 2 to 4 ft. high or even higher, usually 

 woody at the base and almost an undershrub ; stem branched towards 

 the apex ; flowers yellow, densely spicate ; pods erect ; not uncommon 

 in the lower thickets along the rivulets of the Cuango and Quibolo ; fl. 

 and ripe fr. March 1856. No. 1962. On the most elevated slopes of 

 Quilombo-Quiacatubia, together with Cyperacese ; fl. andfr. June 1856. 

 A prostrate form. No. 1964- A herb sometimes erect sometimes 

 prostrate-ascending ; leaves subglaucous ; flowers yellow ; a winter 

 form ; on sparingly grassy slopes of the mountains of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, at the left bank of the river Cuango, sporadic ; fl. and fr. May 

 and June 1855. Also between Trombeta and Cabondo ; fl. and fr. 

 Sept. 1854. No. 1963 (part). An annual leafy herb, 1 to 2£ ft. high ; 

 leaves trifoliolate ; flowers small spicate. Arimo do Isidro ; ripe fr. 

 July 1855. Coll. Carp. 463. 



Ambaca. — In bushy shortly grassy situations, from Engombe towards 

 Puri-Cacarambola ; fl. Oct. 1856 ; no specimen separated for the 

 British Museum. No. 1963 (part). 



Pungo Andongo. — In hilly sparingly grassy stony places near 

 Sansamanda ; fl. April 1857. No. 1963 (part). 



Welwitsch's specimens include both the typical form and the 

 /3. angustifolia of Baker, I.e., p. 29. 



37. C. elata Welw. ex.Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 29. 



G. arborescens Welw. Apont. p. 590, n. 93 ; non Lam. 



Golungo Alto. — An evergreen shrub, 4 to 7 ft. high, with numer- 

 ous stems, and with the habit of a Spartiurn ; branches patent ; flowers 

 large ; calyx 5-clef t ; one lobe appressed to the lower part of the keel ; 

 the other lobes approximated in pairs, cohering at the apex in flower, 

 afterwards in fruit free ; standard and wings at first of a deep sulphur 

 colour, quickly turning orange-saffron ; keel bent upwards at a right 

 angle, persistently sulphur-coloured; pod turgid, oblong-cylindrical, 

 many-seeded, covered with a peculiar densely-hispid tomentum ; seeds 

 more or less reniform, rather compressed, orange-saffron. Frequent 

 in thickets and tall-grassy places, but nowhere abundant ; about Sange 

 between Capopa and Undale, and in palm groves near the river 

 Cuango ; fl. and fr. from Oct. 1854 to July 1855 and in 1856. No. 1911. 

 Coll. Carp. 133, 368 (without specimen), 385. 



Pungo Andongo. — Sparingly, in rocky places, near Mutollo ; fl. 

 April 1857. No. 19116. 



Huilla.— An undershrub, woody at the base, 2 to 3 ft. high or more, 

 with large yellow flowers ; in thickets alongside the streams of Monino, 

 in company with species of Sesban (cf. Herb. No. 1995), etc. ; fl. end 

 of March 1860. No. 1912. A shrub 4 to 5 ft. high ; pods inflated, 

 oblong- and ellipsoidal-ovoid, white-shaggy. Morro de Lopollo, at 

 the cataracts ; fr. April 1860. Doubtfully placed under this species. 

 Coll. Carp. 371. 



38. C. orthoclada Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 29 j non Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. p. 124 (1883). 



Huilla. — Flowers yellow. Very abundant at the grassy margins 



