Cracea] xliv. leguminoSjE. 223 



Huilla. — A suffrutescent slender herb, 2 ft. high. Stipules rigid, 

 setaceous, persistent, J in. long ; leaflets 3 to 9, opposite, narrowly 

 linear, rather rigid, narrowed toward both ends, mucronate, shortly 

 petiolulate, 1J to 3f in.; common petiole ranging up to If in. ; racemes 

 axillary and terminal, pedunculate or sessile, 6 to 18 in. long (including 

 the peduncle), angular ; bract small and setaceous or the lower ones 

 sometimes foliaceous ; pedicels equalling the calyx ; upper calyx-teeth 

 setaceous, equalling or longer than the tube ; corolla £ in. , violet- 

 coloured ; style bearded ; pods 2£ to 3 in. long, nearly straight, shortly 

 tomentose ; seeds 9 to 11. Frequent in the shortly bushy parts of 

 the forest between Catumba and Hay, but at the time of gathering 

 almost entirely destroyed by sheep ; a few specimens fl. and fr. April 

 1860. No. 2105. 



20. C. radicans 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 175 (1891). 

 Tephrosia radicans Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 121. 



Huilla. — A perennial herb, with aspect of a Medicago ; rootstock 

 thick, many-headed ; stems 2 to 3 ft. long, prostrate, much branched, 

 rooting ; flowers purple ; pods broadly oblong, J in. long, 2- or few- 

 seeded. In damp meadows, about the mounds formed by a large kind 

 of ant, near Varzeas de Catumba ; fl. and fr. April 1860. No. 2082. 



21. C. huillensis O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 175 (1891). 

 Tephrosia huillensis Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 121. 



Huilla. — A decumbent-ascending undershrub ; stems flexuous ; 

 internodes usually rather distant ; leaves 3-5-jugate ; petioles 1 to 

 14 in. long ; stipules broadly lanceolate, elongate-acuminate, persistent ; 

 racemes terminal or in the axils of the upper leaves ; bracts like the 

 stipules, comose when young, persistent ; flowers violet-coloured. In 

 bushy pastures near Nene ; fl. Oct. 1859, fr. Feb. 1860. No. 2102. 



Var. /3. grandiflora (Baker, I.e.). 



Huilla. — Pod more densely shaggy. In wooded meadows around 

 the great lake of Ivantala, along the road leading to Quilengues ; fl. 

 and fr. end of Feb. 1860. No. 2103. 



22. C. paniculata O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 175 (1891). 

 Tephrosia paniculata Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 122. 



Pungo Andongo. — A herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, very patently branched ; 

 leaflets 5 or 7, elongate-elliptical, velvety on both sides ; flowers purple ; 

 racemes axillary, crowded, arranged in a panicle. In stony places with 

 tall herbage, near Mupopo, at the river Ouanza, in company with 

 Dolichos elatus Welw. Herb. No. 20756. Not at all common ; fl. April 

 1857. No. 2075. Quitage forests ; fl. No. 4114. 



23. C. villosa L. Sp. PL edit. 1, p. 752 (1753). 



Tephrosia villosa Pers. Syn. PL ii. p. 329 (1807); Baker, I.e., p. 122. 



Var. ineana O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 174 (1891). 



T. ineana Graham in Wall. List, n. 5644; Baker, I.e., p. 123. 



Loanda. — An annual sufErutescent herb, 2 to 3 ft. high, silvery- 

 silky, very beautiful, sometimes forming a large undershrub ; branches 

 spreading ; leaflets in 6 to 8 pairs, with an odd one ; flowers deep 

 violet-purple. Mostly soon decaying without leaving a trace behind. 

 In grassy places around stagnant pools full in summer and drying up 

 in winter, above the city of Loanda ; Museque Schut, etc. ; fl. April 

 to June 1858 and with abundance of ripe fr. No. 2091. 



