Indigo/era] xliv. leguminos^e. 215 



glaucous-green perennial herb ; rootstock thick, woody ; stems nume- 

 rous, prostrate ; leaves glaucous, pinnate ; leaflets 5 to 7, alternate ; 

 stipules 2 together, scarious, adnate to the petiole ; flowers pale reddish- 

 yellow ; calyx deeply cleft, with narrow acuminate teeth ; petals of 

 the keel with a short obtuse almost spathulate spur ; anthers apiculate, 

 very small ; pod compressedly tetragonal, crenate at the sutures between 

 the seeds. In exposed stony shortly-grassy moist parts of the fortress, 

 near Catete ; fl. and young fr. May 1857. ' No. 2024. 



Huilla. — Stems 2 or more from a thick woody several-headed root- 

 stock, herbaceous, erect, branched ; leaflets glaucous ; flowers purplish. 

 Rather rare, in wooded thickets between Lopollo and Monino, at an 

 elevation of 5000 ft. ; fl. end of March 1860. A form with large 

 leaflets. No. 2014. 



Var. radieans Welw. ex Baker, I.e. 



Pungo Andongo.— Lombe Quibinde ; fl. No. 4150. 



Huilla. — Herbaceous ; stems several from the many-headed root, 

 J to 2 ft. long, prostrate in all directions, much branched, rather rigid, 

 brittle, rooting at the base ; leaflets 3 to 5, nearly glabrous ; flowers 

 purple-lilac. Sporadic, in moist meadows by ant-hills composed of red 

 sand, in company with Hydrncotyle. Between Lopollo and Monino ; 

 fl. and nearly ripe fr. April 1860. No. 2039. 



30. I. phyllanthoides Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 96. 



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



Huilla. — A slender undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, above with slender 

 branchlets ; older branches purple ; flowers violet-coloured, less fuga- 

 cious than in most species of the genus. In the drier thickets, between 

 Nene and the high plateau of Empalanca ; fl. and young fr. April 1860 ; 

 at an elevation of 5400 ft. No. 2044. 



Taubert in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost— Afr. c, p. 210 (1895) unites this 

 name with 1. dendroides Jacq. 



31.1. subulifera Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 96. 



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



Pungo Andongo. — In sandy places at the skirts of forests near 

 Sansamanda ; fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 2048- An erect herb, 1J to 

 2Jft. high, ashy-pubescent throughout ; leaflets 7 to 11 or 12, opposite, 

 as well as the pod terminated with a subulate acumen at the apex. 

 Abundant in exposed rocky forests, near Calunga and between it 

 and Candumbo ; fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 2048J. In shortly bushy 

 pastures, near the river Ouanza, between Condo and Quisonde ; fl. 

 March 1857. No. 2049. 



Huilla. — Abundant, in grassy shortly-bushy places, along the skirts 

 of woods between Catumba and Hay ; fl. March 1860. No. 2050. In 

 the drier thickets at the skirts of woods near the great lake Ivantala, 

 with pale-blue fl. (a young plant without fl. near Erne in Jan. 1860, not 

 separated for the British Museum), end of Feb. 1860. No. 2050&. 



32. I. Anil L. Mant. PI. alt. p. 272 (1771) ; Welw. Apont. p. 574 

 under n. 174 ; Baker, I.e., p. 98. 



Anil(a) tinctoria e vera O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 160. 



Pkince's Island. — Frequent, sandy maritime places and drier hills, 

 about Porto S. Antonio, etc. ; fl. and fr, Sept. 1853. No. 2034. 



Loanda. — An undershrub, 1J to 3J in. high or even higher and 

 nearly shrubby ; stems crowded, suberect or oblique ; flowers incon- 



