Indigo/era] xliv. leguminos^e. 207 



Pungo Andongo.— A rather hard undershrub, 1£ to 2 ft. high, 

 branched from the base ; leaves impari-pinnate ; leaflets 7, glaucous- 

 green, at length in the dry state hoary-pubescent ; flowers purple-red, 

 crowded in capitate racemes along the branchlets ; calyx 5-cleft nearly 

 to the base ; keel acutely spurred on both sides ; anthers with a long 

 apiculus ; pods ellipsoidal-globose, hardly T \ in. long, with a long 

 apiculus, 1-seeded. Sporadic, in sandy thickets, not far from the 

 river Ouanza, between Condo and Quisonde ; fl. and fr. March 1857. 

 No. 2041. 



2. I. prooera Schum. et Thonn.Guin.Pl. p.365 (1827); Baker, I.e., 

 p. 71. 



Anilla) prooera 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 939. 



Ambaca. — An annual erect herb, resembling Scoparia ; branches at 

 first rather strict, at length spreading ; rather rare in moist situations 

 flooded in the rainy season, at the left bank of the river Caringa ; 

 fr. and with a few fl. June 1855. A somewhat shrubby herb question- 

 ably perennial, with the habit of a Thesium ; root long, thick, woody ; 

 stems oblique, much branched ; leaves simple ; flowers brilliant-red, 

 fugacious ; frequent in bushy wooded places, especially in forests of 

 Cussonia angolensis Hiern (cf. Herb. No. 480), between Izanga and 

 N-gombe ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 2002. A perennial, somewhat 

 shrubby herb ; stems virgate, leafy ; flowers flaming-scarlet, fugacious ; 

 pods linear-oblong, cylindrical, hirsute, 2-seeded. In bushy wooded 

 clayey situations ; fl. and fr. Oct. Coll. Carp. 372. 



Pungo Andongo. — In exposed shortly grassy parts of forests, abun- 

 dant, from Calunga in the direction of Muta Lucala ; fl. and fr. March 

 1857. No. 2001. 



3. I. simplioifoliaLam.Encycl.Meth.iii.p.251(1789); Baker, &c, 

 p. 72. 



Anil(a) simplicifolia O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 940. 



Goltjngo Alto. — A slender annual undershrub, rigid, roughish and 

 somewhat ashy all over, 3 to 4 ft. high ; leaves brittle ; flowers white, 

 very small, concealed in the axils of the erect leaves. Frequent in 

 open shortly-bushy places at the margins of forests between Trombeta 

 and Cambondo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 2003. A strict erect 

 slender undershrub, with the habit of Lythrum Hyssopifolia L. ; in 

 moist situations near Cambondo ; fr. 19 Sept. 1854. Coll. Carp. 460. 



Ambaca. — A strictly erect annual undershrub, sparingly branched, 

 with a rush-like habit ; leaves erect, appressed, rough ; flowers very 

 small, white ; pods erect, mucronate. In bushy wooded places from 

 Cabinda to N-gombe, in company with various other species of 

 Indigofera ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 20035. 



4. 1. erythrogrammaWelw.exBakerin01iv.Fl.Trop.Afr.ii.pt73. 



Anil(a) erythrogramma O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 939. 



Loanda. — A summer form ; frequent in sands disintegrated from 

 a red conglomerate, between Alto das Cruzas and Quicuxe ; fl. and 

 fr. Jan. 1854. No. 2007. Autumn forms ; leaves in the living state 

 marked with purple lines beneath ; flowers scarlet or deep-blood-red ; 

 frequent in hilly sandy places around the city of Loanda, from Alto 

 das Cruzes towards the Museque of Senr. Schut ; fl. and sparingly fr. 

 May 1854. No. 2005. 



Pungo Andongo. — A persisting herb, 1J ft. high ; flowers brilliantly 

 scarlet-red ; calyx-segments 5, equal, linear, terminated with a capitate 



