Cracca] xliv. leguminos;e. 219 



crowded small branches ; leaves trif oliolate or, especially those of the 

 top-branches, simple ; leaflets with cartilaginous margins ; flowers 

 pale-purple. On grassy shortly-bushy hills in the Lopollo country 

 from Ferrao da Sola in the direction of J4u ; in young fl. and fr. 

 beginning of April 1860. No. 2074. 



4. C. lupulinifolia O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 175 (1891). 

 Tephrosia lupinifolia DC. Prodr. ii. p. 255 (1825); Baker, I.e., 



p. 107. 



Ambriz. — On the drier sea-sands, between Ambriz and Mossul ; not 

 yet in full fl. Nov. 1853. No. 2076. 



Var. digitata (T. digitata DC, La). 



Loanda. — Calyx-teeth from an ovate base gradually subulate- 

 acuminate ; standard nearly orbicular, emarginate, not appendaged ; 

 upper filament free at the base and at the base of the anther, adhering 

 at the middle ; ovary linear-oblong, 6-8-ovuled ; at Teba Feb: 1854. 

 On sandy hills between Teba and Cacuaco ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1854. 

 No. 2077. 



This species supplies the blue dye of the negroes of the Congo, 

 according to Dr. Daniell. 



5. C. disperma O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 175 (1891). 

 Tephrosia disperma Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 108. 



Mossamedes. — An annual silky-hoary herb; stems slender, branched, 

 several from the same crown of the root, prostrate in all directions ; 

 stipules subulate ; leaves pinnate, usually 7- more rarely 9-foliolate ; 

 the lower leaflets gradually smaller, the old terminal one twice as long 

 as any of the others, broadly linear, all apiculate ; peduncles leaf- 

 opposed or the earliest ones almost radical, ranging up to 1 ft. in 

 length, very slender, bearing distant flowers ; pedicels capillary, two 

 together in the axil of a subulate bract, a little longer than the flowers; 

 flowers purple, small, very fugacious ; calyx-teeth subequal, acuminate; 

 standard orbicular, pubescent outside, embracing the wings and petals 

 of the keel, with a short rather broad almost deltoid claw ; vexillary 

 stamen quite free, adhering to the claw of the standard ; anthers 

 globose, versatile, uniform ; ovary sessile, silky-pilose, 2-ovuled ; style 

 flattened, scarcely cartilaginous, nearly naked, bent at the apex together 

 with the thinly papillose stigma ; pods about \ in. long, rather com- 

 pressed, attenuate at the base, obliquely beaked at the apex, 2-seeded, 

 seeds transversely oblong, sculptured. On sand-hills along the sea- 

 coast, between Praia da Amelia and Cabo Negro ; fl. and fr. 8 July 

 1859. No. 2095. 



6. C. capillipes O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 174 (1891). 

 Tephrosia capillipes Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 108. 



Loanda. — An annual herb, erect or sometimes decumbent or ascend- 

 ing, somewhat silky-hoary, very soft and pretty flaccid ; stems slender, 

 oblique or diffuse ; branches spreading, slender ; leaflets both in the 

 living and dried states shining with a silvery gloss ; flowers rose- 

 purple, usually only the lower ones of the racemes well developed, the 

 upper ones being poor or quite sterile. Very common, on grassy hills 

 and in rather poor exposed fields around the city of Loanda ; fl. and 

 fr. from Dec. to April and May ; Imbondeiro dos Lobos Dec. 1853 ; 

 Alto das Cruzes Jan. and March 1854 ; Museque de Luiz Gomes in 

 May 1858. No. 2094. 



