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lower leaves 5-foliolate, upper leaves 3-foliolate ; flowers sessile, yel- 

 lowish, at first whitish. On the grassy drier slopes of the higher ranges 

 of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, but only in a few places ; 

 fl. and unripe fr. end of March 1856. No. 2086; 



Pungo Andongo. — In the thickets of sandy woods between Lombe 

 and Quibinda ; fl. and young fr. March 1857. No. 2088. 



16. C. dasyphylla O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 174 (1891). 

 Tephrosia dasyphylla Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 118. 



Pungo Andongo. — In the exposed sandy parts of forests near 

 Sansamanda ; fr. May 1857. Unique specimen. A narrow-leaved 

 form. No. 2085. 



HtriLLA. — A perennial herb ; rootstock very thickly woody ; stems 

 erect, simple or with spreading branches ; leaves trifoliolate, rarely 

 5-foliolate, thick but not fleshy ; flowers violet-coloured. Not un- 

 common, in bushy sandy-stony rather dry places, in the descent from 

 Morro de Lopollo in the direction of Ferrao da Sola, in company with 

 Clematis chrysocarpa "Welw. (Herb. No. 1222) ; fl. and fr. April 1860. 

 No. 2084. Morro de Lopollo, towards Humpata, in sparingly bushy 

 places ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 2084&. 



17. C. cephalantha O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 174 (1891). 

 Tephrosia cephalantha Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 119. 



Pungo Andongo. — Stem erect, flexuous ; flowers violet-coloured, 

 at first whitish, few together in a head. On grassy slopes at the foot 

 of the Serra called Pedras de Guinga ; fl. and fr. end of March 1857. 

 No. 2089. 



Huilla. — An elegant erect undershrub, 1 to 1J ft. high ; leaflets 

 3 to 5; stipules acute, spreading, turning black; flowers violet-coloured, 

 crowded at the extremities of the stem and branches. In bushy stony 

 (mica schist) rather elevated places in Morro de Lopollo ; fl. and ripe 

 fr. April 1860. No. 2087. 



Var. p. decumbens (Welw. ex Baker, I.e.). ■ 



Huilla. — A little undershrub, patently branched from the several- 

 headed rootstock, 6 in. high ; branches sub-decumbent ; stipules from 

 a broad base with a long almost subulate acumen ; flowers pale-violet. 

 Sparingly, on rather dry shortly-bushy hills, from Ferrao da Sola in 

 the direction of J&u, gathered while reconnoitring ; fl. and fr. end of 

 March 1860. No. 2090. 



18. C. linearis O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 175. 

 Tephrosia linearis Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 330 (1807) ; Baker, I.e., 



p. 120. 



Ambriz. — An erect undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, virgately branched 

 above ; leaflets usually 5 ; flowers violet-coloured. On stony wooded 

 hills on the road from Mossul to Libongo, when fleeing from negro- 

 robbers; fl. and ripe fr. Nov. 1853, at an elevation of about 300 ft. 

 No. 2101. 



Golungo Alto. Without special locality or notes. Leafy branch. 

 No. 4152. 



19. C. longipes O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 175 (1891). 

 Tephrosia longipes Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. p. 87 



(1843); Baker, I.e., p. 120. 



