214 xliv. LEGUMiNOSiB. [Indigo/era 



This species occurs also at Caconda, where it is called " Ubange' " or 

 " Ubange " ; it was gathered by Anchieta in Nov. 1877, n. 137. 



26. I. prninosa Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 93. 

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



Mossamedes. — An erect hard small shrub, 2 ft. high ; stem and 

 branches completely covered with a glaucous branny bloom ; leaves 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets 5 or 7, fleshy, rigid, covered with a rough 

 pubescence, very brittle ; flowers purple ; calyx widely gaping at the 

 back, all the teeth being directed forwards ; standard sub-orbicular, 

 with two spots at the base ; keel not spurred ; anthers subulate- 

 apiculate ; pod sub-cylindrical, 1J in. long, glabrous. Sporadic, in 

 rocky mountainous places, along the banks of the river Maiombo ; in 

 young fl. and in fr. Oct. 1859. No. 2035. 



27. I. daleoides Benth. ex Harv. in Harv. & Sond. PI. Cap. ii. 

 p. 200 (1862) ; Baker, I.e., p. 95. 



Anilia) daleodes O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 939. 



Benguella. — Stems numerous from a woody many-headed rootstock, 

 prostrate in all directions, slender, 1J ft. long or more. On sea-sands, 

 especially at the mouth of the river Cavado, near the city of Benguella ; 

 fl. June 1859. No. 2060. 



28. I. mieroearpa Desv. Journ. Bot. iii. p. 79 (1814); Benth. 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. i. p. 39 (1859). 



/. enneaphylla Baker, I.e., p. 95 ; non L. 



Loanda. — An annual or biennial herb ; branches long, much branched 

 at the base, procumbent, or rather stretched out in a stellate manner ; 

 petals white at the claw, violet on the lamina ; pods cylindric-conical, 

 short, few-seeded. Plentiful, in a few places by drying-up pools near 

 Alto das Cruzes ; fl. and fr. May 1854 and 12 July 1858. No. 2011. 

 In dried-up pools, near Boa Vista ; fl. and fr. July 1858. No. 20116. 



Our specimens differ from I. enneaphylla L. by opposite, not alternate, 

 leaflets ; by longer racemes and by sub-torulose and darker pods ; they 

 nearly agree with the Brazilian /. mieroearpa Desv., especially with its 

 synonym i~. domingensis Spreng. ex DC. Prodr. ii. p. 227 (1825), but 

 the flowers are slightly larger, and the leaflets oblanceolate and longer. 



29. I. endecaphylla Jacq. Collect. Bot. ii. p. 358 (1788), Ic. PI. 

 Ear. t. 570 (1786-93) (hendecaphylla) ; Baker, I.e., p. 96. 



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



Ambbiz. — Frequent in sandy places along the sea-coast between 

 Mossul and Ambriz ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1853. A small-leaved form. 

 No. 2063. 



Loanda. — Annual, sometimes persisting for several years ; stems 

 prostrate, 3 to 5 ft. long ; frequent, in grassy hollows, flooded in the 

 rainy season, and in dried-up Represas around the city of Loanda, 

 near Boa Yista, Quicuxe, Alto das Cruzes, etc. ; fl. and fr. Feb. to July 

 1858. No. 2062. A prostrate perennial ; stems numerous, woody at 

 the base ; flowers brick-red, arranged in long spikes, Cacuaco and 

 Morro das Lapostas ; fr. August 1854. Coll. Carp. 110. 



Pungo Andongo. — A perennial herb ; rootstock woody, vertical, 

 many-headed ; stems prostrate ; leaflets glaucous-green, rather fleshy ; 

 inflorescence much-acuminate ; flowers violet-purple ; sporadic on 

 stony shortly-grassy hills within the fortified lines of Pungo Andongo ; 

 fl. and fr. April 1857. A form with narrow leaflets. No. 2064. A 



