210 xliv. leguminosjs. [Indigo/era 



persists at the apex of the pod. Frequent, in the rather elevated 

 shortly-grassy meadows of Pedra de Cabondo, about Sansamanda ; 

 in fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 2066. A slender annual herb ; stems 

 ascending ; flowers scarlet, turning purple when dried ; pods straight, 

 § to fin. long ; T V in. wide. In the moist meadows of Sansamanda, 

 at the banks of the river Cuanza. In fl. and fr. end of April 1857. 

 No. 20666. On the grassy slopes of Pedras de Guinga ; in fl. beginning 

 of April 1857. No. 2066c. A small annual herb, sometimes erect, 

 at other times with prostrate stems, 3 to 6 in. high, heterophyllous ; 

 the earliest lower leaves oval, J by J in. ; upper leaves 3-5-folioIate ; 

 leaflets narrowly elliptical or nearly linear, ^ to § by T V to J in. ; 

 flowers rose-coloured, rather small, never all fully expanded at once ; 

 pods (young) linear, hirsute, moderately falcate or somewhat arched, 

 apiculate with the curved style. On the stony dry highest ranges of 

 the fortress near Pedra de Cazella ; fl. and young fr. towards the end 

 of May 1857. No. 2067. 



Huilla. — A little hispidulous annual herb, a hand high ; stem 

 branched ; branches rather spreading ; lower leaves simple, upper 

 leaves and those of the branches trif oliolate ; flowers bright scarlet, 

 very fugacious ; pods narrowly ensiform, many-seeded. In marshy 

 pastures and alongside streams near Lopollo, especially about Catumba 

 at the camp of the Munanos ; fl. and fr. 27 March 1860. No. 2032. 

 In moist meadows at the left bank of the river of Lopollo, in company 

 with Iphigenia guineensis Baker (Welw. Herb. No. 1626) ; fl. violet-red 

 and fr. April 1860. No. 2031. 



11.1. psilostaehya Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 84. 



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



Huilla. — A very. bright-green herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; primary stem 

 cylindrical ; branches and branchlets sub-compressed, angular, one or 

 other angle almost winged ; the lower branches elongated, ascending ; 

 flowering spikes elongated, 6 to 15 in. long, erect-patent ; flowers at 

 first blue, soon turning violet. In moist wooded meadows along the 

 river Mupanda, near the great lake Ivantala ; fl. and young fr. Feb. 

 1860. No. 2052. 



12. I. medicaginea Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl.Trop. Afr. ii. p. 86. 

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



Pungo Andongo. — A tender prostrate perennial herb, with the 

 habit of a Medicago ; leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets beset beneath with 

 thin rigid hairs fixed on the midst of the lamina ; flowers reddish- 

 purple ; calyx-teeth all equal ; stamens diadelphous, the vexillary one 

 free ; keel not spurred ; anthers with a very small hardly perceptible 

 apiculus ; style obsolete ; stigma large, sessile, orbicular, ciliate. In 

 moist meadows with short herbage, by the banks of the river Cuanza 

 near Sansamanda, apparently rare ; fl. and with two young fr. Feb. 

 1857. No. 2025. An annual or biennial prostrate little herb ; some 

 leaves simple, others pinnately trifoliolate, the end-leaflet orbicular ; 

 flowers scarlet. Sparingly, in the moist poorer meadows with short 

 herbage by the stream of Catete within the fortress of Pungo Andongo ; 

 fl. and young fr. May 1857. No. 2026. 



13. I. oxalidea Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 86. 

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



Huilla. — -A perennial herb ; stems thin, flexuous, prostrate ; leaves 

 3-5-foliolate, deep-green ; flowers purple-scarlet. In damp muddy- 



