208 xliv. leguminos.e. [Indigo/era 



purple gland ; anthers uniform, apiculate. Sparingly in sandy thickets 

 along the margins of forests about the fortress near Sansamanda and 

 near the river Lombe ; fl. and fr. March and May 1857. Near Cazella ; 

 flower-bud Oct. 1856. No. 2006. 



Huilla. — A herb, apparently persisting for two or several years, 

 very widely csespitose and quite prostrate ; flowers splendidly scarlet- 

 red. Frequent in damp meadows, along the Catumba stream, by 

 hardened ant-hills ; fl. and very sparingly fr. Jan. and Feb. 1860. 

 No. 2008. 



5. I. nummularia Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 74. 

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



Pungo Andongo. — Eootstock many-headed, woody ; stems 1£ to 

 2 ft. long, prostrate, much branched ; leaves obovate-orbicular. 

 Common and abundant in sandy places at the river Cuanza, the 

 banks of which it decks with its brilliant rose-purple flowers ; fl. and 

 sparingly fr. Jan. 1857. No. 2009. 



6. I. capitata Kotschy in Sitz. Akad. Wien LI. i. p. 365, t. 6a 

 (1865) ; Baker, I.e., p. 75. 



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



Ambriz. — In thickets along the coast to the north of the city of 

 Ambriz ; fl. Nov. 1853. No. 2040. 



7. I. pulchra Willd. Sp. PL iii. p. 1239 (1800) ; Baker, I.e., p. 76. 



Loanda. — A slender undershrub ; stems densely csespitose, the 

 central ones erect, the lateral ones ascending, 1£ to 2£ ft. high, virgate, 

 furnished below with pinnate leaves and above with simple leaves ; 

 flowers bright red, fugacious ; calyx in the living state golden-tawny ; 

 frequent and polymorphic in sandy fields to the south of the city of 

 Loanda ; fl. and f r. October 1853 to March 1854 ; Alto das Cruzes, in 

 fruit and with very few flowers at the beginning of December 1858. 

 No. 2010. A. shaded form ; in overhung roadways by their sandy sides 

 among bushes of leafless Euphorbia, with a few flowers and fruits in 

 March 1854. No. 2010S. 1 to 2 ft. high ; by fences of Euphorbia ; 

 fr. Oct. 1853. Coll. Carp. 457. 



Var. andongensis. 



A low spreading undershrub ; leaflets ranging in number up to 9. 



PuNGO AndongO. — Flowers bright scarlet. Abundant about the 

 fortress in dry thickets near the Luxillo bridge ; fl. April 1857. This 

 plant bears a close resemblance to I. Brassii Baker (I.e., p. 76), the leaves 

 of which however have a greater number of leaflets, No. 2047. 



8. I. pilosa Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Mdth. Suppl., iii. p. 151 

 (1813) ; Baker, I.e., p. 82. 



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



Loanda. — A slender annual or biennial herb, 1£ to 2 ft. high, with 

 the habit of a Lotus ; stems prostrate-ascending from a much-branched 

 base ; flowers very small, rose-coloured or rose-blood-red ; fully ripe 

 pods black. In sandy fields, abundant in the district to the south of 

 the city ; Museque of Luis G-omes ; fl. and fr. July 1858. In tracts 

 of Fimbristylis, near Quicuxe ; in fl. and fr. 7 Feb. 1859. No. 2022. 

 A prostrate annual ; flowers small ; petals deep-purple, very caducous. 

 In sandy places above the city, amongst plantations of Manihot utilis- 

 sima ; fr. April 1854. Coll. Carp. 377. 



