Indigo/era] xliv. leguminos*. 211 



sandy meadows, about ant-hills, between Lopollo and Monino ; fl. and 

 fr. April 1860. No. 2023. 



14. I. trita Linn. f. Suppl. PI. p. 335(1781); Baker, i.e., p. 86. 

 Anil{a) trita 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 940. 



Loanda. — A herb, apparently annual or biennial ; primary stem 

 rather erect ; branches oblique or decumbent, more or less distichously 

 branched ; leaves and stem beset with rigid brittle stinging hairs ; 

 flowers brick-red, fugacious. Occasionally in dry rocky and sandy 

 maritime stations at Praia da Zamba Grande ; fl. and young fr. 16 Jan. 

 1859. No. 2028. A prostrate herb, with ascending branchlets ; whole 

 plant whitish-silky in the living state ; flowers of a brilliant cinnabar- 

 red colour. On clay flooded in summer time, between Quicuxe and 

 Cacuaco ; fl. and fr. beginning of August 1858. No. 2028/'. A suffru- 

 tescent herb ; stem as well as the trifokolate leaves beset with 

 stinging hairs ; branches quite patent ; Jan. 1859. Coll. Carp. 376. 



Golttngo Alto. — Stems ascending, 2 to 4 ft. long ; flowers of a 

 pale-violet colour, very caducous. At the borders of thickets and by 

 roadsides in stony and gravelly places, between Trombeta and Cam- 

 bondo ; fl. and young fr. March 1855. No. 2029. A herb becoming 

 woody at the base ; branches virgate, prostrate- ascending ; leaves 

 glaucous-green ; flowers few, vinous-brick-red. Garden of the Resi- 

 dency of Golungo Alto, in cotton- plantations ; fr. 1 Oct. 1856. 

 Doubtfully referred to this species. Coll. Carp. 373. 



Ambaca. — An annual herb, branched from the base ; branches 

 elongated, sarmentose ; leaves trifoliolate, as well as the stem beset 

 with stinging hairs ; flowers pale-lilac, when first opened scarlet. 

 Among fields of Utanihot utilissima Pohl, near N-gombe ; fl. and ripe 

 fr. Oct. 1856. No. 2030. Puri Cacarambola ; fl. Oct. 1856. A poor 

 doubtful specimen. No. 4135. 



Pungo Andongo. — An annual herb, well simulating in habit a 

 Melilotus ; stem ascending, branched in a virgate manner towards the 

 apex ; leaflets 3 to 5. In bushy sparingly grassy meadows between 

 the river Lombe and Muta Lucala ; fl. and young fr. March 1857. 

 No. 2027. 



Mossamedes. — Not uncommon in fields of Gossypium about Caval- 

 leiros ; fl. and young fr. August 1859. No. 2068. 



15. I. benguellensis Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 87. 

 Anil{a) benguelensis O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 938. 



Mossamedes. — Leaflets not uncommonly opposite and alternate in 

 the same specimen. In sea-sands, not far from the ocean, near Porto 

 Pinda, at Cabo Negro ; in young fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 2061. 



16. I. paucifolia Delile, Fl. Egypte, p. 251, t. 37 fig. 2, 2', 111. 

 p. 70 (1812) ; Baker, I.e., p. 88. 



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



Benguella. — A little shrub with ascending white-glaucescent stems; 

 leaves very glaucous beneath, green-glaucous above ; flowers at first 

 red, almost cinnabar-red, soon turning violet. In sandy thickets near 

 the city of Benguella ; fl. and fr. June 1859. No. 2019. 



Mossamedes. — A little evergreen shrub, hard-woody at the base, 

 3 to 5 ft. long, very glaucous throughout ; stems numerous, prostrate- 

 ascending, loosely branched ; leaflets alternate ; flowers small, red, 

 fugacious ; pods torulose. Frequent, in sandy places along the banks 

 of the river Bero ; fr. with a few fl. 11 August 1859. No. 2018. 



