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very crowded, at length almost nodding ; branchlets ascending ; flowers 

 solitary or very rarely two together, axillary, at first yellowish-white, 

 afterwards violet-purple, in time nearly red ; pods secund ; the whole 

 plant hairy with soft spreading hairs, only appressed on the lower 

 surfaces of the leaflets ; rather rare, in dry sterile sandy maritime 

 rocky places, at Praia de Zamba Grande ; fl. and fr. 16 Jan. 1859. 

 Doubtfully placed here, but may be a distinct species ; it differs from 

 the usual character by the short and axillary inflorescence and by the 

 more tomentose pod. No. 4133- An erect much-branched shrub, 1£ 

 to 3 ft. high ; branches patent, herbaceous ; leaves imparipinnate, 

 silky ; flowers sessile or subsessile, violet-purple ; pods constantly 

 secund. In rocky maritime stations at Praia de Zamba Grande ; 

 fl. and fr. 1 Jan. 1859. Agrees with No. 4133. Coll. Caep. 381. A 

 herb ; root persisting for several years ; stems prostrate, branched ; 

 branchlets ascending ; flowers white, more rarely purplish ; calyx, 

 especially on the face of the linear-elongated segments, furnished with 

 long pilose hairs ; pods more pilose than in the variety with purple 

 flowers ; promiscuously with the variety referred to, in sandy bushy 

 places near Maianga de El Rei ; fl. and f r. end of Dec. 1858. No. 4132. 

 A herb ; rootstock many-headed, perennial (?) ; stems prostrate- 

 ascending, woody-tenacious and purplish at the base, much branched ; 

 flowers purple ; very abundant in sandy shortly-bushy hills throughout 

 the Loanda country, especially near Maiongo de El Eei ; fl. and fr. 

 end of Dec. 1858. No. 41326. A prostrate-ascending herb ; flowers 

 rose-coloured. A.t Maiango do Povo ; fl. and fr. June 1858. In some 

 specimens of this the racemes are axillary, very short and with few 

 flowers. No. 4134. 



Ambaca. — A prostrate herb, apparently annual or biennial. In fields 

 of Manihot utilissima Pohl, near N-gombe ; fr. and very few fl. Oct. 

 1856. No. 2079. 



12. MUNDULEA Benth. ; Benth & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 497. 

 1. M. suberosa Benth. in Miq. PI. Jungh. p. 248 (1852); Baker 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 126. 



Mossamedes. — A small tree, 8 to 10 ft. high, patently branched ; 

 flowers violet-purple, arranged in conical racemes. Sparingly in 

 thickets at the banks of the river Bero, near Cavalheiros ; in late fl. 

 and in fr. beginning of June 1859. No. 1844. An arborescent shrub or 

 small tree, with the habit of a Sophora or Millettia ; flowers violaceous, 

 spicate-racemose ; pod linear, stipitate, compressed, occasionally con- 

 stricted, tomentose. In sandy thickets at the banks of the river Bero, 

 in company with thorny plants ; fr. July 1859. Coll. Caep. 468. 



13. MILLETTIA Wight & Arn. ; Benth. &, Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 

 p. 498. 



1. M. Griffoniana Baill. in Adans. vi. p. 222 (1866). 



M. Thonningii Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 128. Pkaseo- 

 lodes Thonningii 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 202 (1891). 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree, 10 to 20 ft. high, with the habit of 

 a Fraxinus or Robinia, evergreen ; trunk tortuous, 9 to 12 in. in diam. ; 

 crown rather lax ; leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets moderately coriaceous 

 but rigid, glossy above, pale-subglaucous beneath ; flowers of a deep- 

 rose colour, inodorous, arranged in axillary cylindric-clavate, nodding, 

 obtuse, gradually acuminate racemes longer than the leaves ; calyx 



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