Indigo/era] xliv. lbguminoSjB. 217 



very densely beset nearly all over with stalked glands, and very viscid; 

 flowers at first scarlet, soon turning purple, very fugacious. Sporadic, 

 along the bushy skirts of forests composed of Parinari, near Oazenda; 

 fl. without ripe fr. beginning of April 1860, at an elevation of 5000 ft. 

 No. 2042. 



38. I. sutherlandioides Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 ii. p. 101. 



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



Huilla. — A herb, the most beautiful of the genus in Angola, with 

 the habit of a Sutherlandia ; rootstock woody, persisting ; stems erect, 

 1 to 2 ft. high ; flowers dark-purple ; calyx short, cup-shaped, 5-toothed, 

 teeth deltoid ; standard very shortly clawed ; wings much shorter than 

 the ample keel, which is shortly and obtusely spurred on both sides ; 

 anthers acutely apiculate ; pods sub-compressed, glabrous, dark-purple, 

 If in. long, transversely septate. On rocky, rather dry, and sparingly 

 bushy hills above Ferrao da Sola ; fl. Jan. 1860. Also in wooded bushy 

 places near the great lake of Ivantala, between it and Quilengues ; 

 fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 2012. 



Occurs also at Caconda, where it was gathered by Anchieta in Oct. 1880. 



39. I. anabaptista Steud. Nomencl. Bot., edit. 2, i. p. 805 (1840). 

 I. Hochstetteri Baker,Z.c, p. 101. Anil(a) Hochstetteri O. Kuntze, 



I.e., p. 939. A. anabaptizata O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 938. 



Loanda. — Frequent in both dry and moist sandy places ; leaves 

 3- or 5-foliate ; flowers sometimes viviparous. Morro das Lagostas ; fl. 

 Jan. 1854, fr. Feb. Boa Vista ; fl. and fr. 10 August 1854. No. 4137. 

 Fl. and young fr. Nov. 1858. No. 4138. Fl. and fr. No. 4139. An 

 annual herb ; stem and branches prostrate-ascending ; the adult plant 

 furnished with stinging hairs ; pods much compressed. Abundant, in 

 the very dry sandy sparingly grassy parts of Praia de Zamba Grande ; 

 fl. 16 Jan. 1859. Morro das Lagostas ; fr. March 1856. No. 4140. 

 An elongated form with elongated interrupted racemes, in poor fl. and 

 fr. No. 4141. 



Mossamedes. — A prostrate herbaceous-green annual herb, with small 

 bright blood-red fugacious flowers, in sandy places near the river Bero; 

 fl. and fr. beginning of July 1859. An annual herb, with stems spread 

 in an orbicular manner and pale violet flowers, in sandy sparingly 

 grassy places by the river Bero, near Quipola ; rare fl. and fr. August 

 1859. A unique specimen with root woody as thick as the little finger, 

 stems 1£ ft. long spread out into a circle, and pale violet flowers ; in 

 sandy places of the river Caroca near Cabo Negro, in a pit nearly dried 

 up, in company with Hyphaene henguellensis Welw. and a species of 

 Arundo ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1859. No. 4142. 



40. I. aspera Perr. ex DC. Prodr. ii. p. 229 (1825) ; Baker, I.e., 

 p. 102. 



Anil(a) aspera O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 938. 



Mossamedes. — A bright-green herb ; stem and leaves rather rough; 

 flowers rose-red ; pods flattened. In damp sands near the mouth of 

 tihe river Griraul ; fl. and young fr. July 1859. No. 2036. An annual 

 herb, apparently, if adult, prostrate ; stem, as well as the trifoliolate 

 leaves, rather rough ; flowers scarlet, when dried blue-purple. In moist 

 sandy places at the banks of the river Bero ; fl. 14 August 1859. 

 No. 20366. 



