224 xliv. leguminos^;. [Cracca 



24. C. coronilloides. 



Tephrosia coronilloides Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 123. 



Pungo Andongo. — An undershrub, 2 to 2J ft. high, branched in a 

 distorted manner, with the habit of a Coronilla ; flowers bright scarlet, 

 fugacious ; frequent, in sandy bushy places on the right bank of the 

 river Cuanza, near Sansamanda ; fl. middle of Dec. 1856, fl. and fr. 

 May 1857. No. 2080. 



Bumbo. — In fields after cultivation of Arachis hypogma L., on a 

 sandy soil of mica-schist, near Bumbo, at the base of the mountains of 

 Serra da Xella ; fr. and sparingly fl. Oct. 1859. No. 2081. 



25. C. decora. 



Tephrosia decora Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 123. 



Pungo Andongo. — A suffruticose herb, sometimes annual, or an 

 undershrub ; stem erect, 1£ ft. high, simple at the base, flexuous and 

 with spreading branches above, densely and patently shaggy ; leaflets 

 7 to 13, almost like leaves of Ledum, bright green and densely striate 

 above, silvery-silky beneath ; stipules filiform-subulate from the base, 

 £ in. long ; bracts filiform ; flowers violet-coloured ; calyx-teeth subu- 

 late, twice as long as the tube, spreading ; racemes almost strigulose. In 

 bushy places at the margins of forests between Lombe and Candumba, 

 plentiful only in one spot ; fl. and young fr. March 1857. No. 2098. 



26. C. drepanocarpa. 



Tephrosia drepanocarpa Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 124. 



Huilla. — A prostrate or decumbent, perennial herb, with the habit 

 of a Vicia ; stems elongated, decumbent-ascending ; flowers rose-purple, 

 sometimes dark purple ; upper teeth of the calyx connate rather 

 high ; standard orbicular, silky outside ; vexillary stamen free at the 

 base and at the apex ; sheath of the filaments minutely auriculate 

 on both sides at the base ; style flattened, subcartilaginous ; pod sub- 

 falcate. In exposed sandy pastures, inundated at the time of gathering, 

 about ant-hills ; frequent, from Lopollo towards Catumba and Ferrao 

 da Sola ; fl. and nearly ripe fr. Jan., Feb., and April 1860. No. 2083. 



27. C. purpurea L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 752 (1753). 



Tephrosia purpurea Pers. Syn. PI. ii. p. 329 (1807) ; Baker, I.e., 

 p. 124. 



Pungo Andongo. — In shortly bushy rather sandy pastures on the 

 right bank of the river Cuanza, near Mupopo ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 

 1856. No. 2099. 



Var. /?. pubescens (Baker, I.e., p. 125). T. lineata Schum. & 

 Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. p. 376 (1827). 



Loanda. — An erect herb, branched from the base ; branches at 

 length elongated, patent-decumbent ; flowers red ; frequent along 

 roadsides and in sandy hilly fields from Alto das Cruzes as far as 

 Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. Feb. and April 1854. No. 2078. A biennial (?) 

 herb ; stem branched from the base ; branches more or less prostrate- 

 ascending and as well as the leaves hoary-silky ; flowers small, purplish 

 or rose-purple. Frequent, in sandy spaces near the city of Loanda to 

 the south, Museque de Luiz Gomes ; fl. and fr. June 1858. No. 4131. 

 Flowers rose-purple ; in the grassy thickets of Boa "Vista ; Feb. 1858. 

 Possibly belonging to this variety, but perhaps a different species. 

 No. 4130. An undershrub or a prostrate apparently annual herb ; 

 stems 1| to 3 ft., bright brown and white-striate ; branches spreading, 



