226 xliv. leguminos^e. [Millettia 



brown-black outside, whitish with purple lines inside ; corolla violet- 

 coloured ; standard broadly obcordate, with a rather broad channelled 

 claw which is sinuous-plicate at the base of the lamina ; wings with 

 two unequal feet at the base, adhering to the keel ; petals of the keel 

 combined ; stamens 10, 5 taller than the rest, diadelphous, all fertile, 

 the vexillary one free and geniculate at the base ; ovary sessile, linear, 

 rather compressed, pilose, many-ovuled ; style glabrous, bent at a right 

 angle above ; stigma penicillate-capitate, yellow. On the slopes of the 

 mountains between Bangb and Quilombo Quiacatubia ; fl. May and 

 June 1 855 ; in the secondary woods in the direction of the river 

 Luinha (when a shrub rarely flowering) ; sparingly in fl. June 1856 ; 

 fr. Sept. and Jan. 1855. Cf. Lichen n. 2016. No. I860. A small 

 tree, very rarely as much as 25 ft. high, usually 15 to 20 ft. high, not 

 rarely a shrub of 6 ft., but then not flowering ; crown very frondose, 

 dilated : branches spreading, the lower ones very much so ; flowers 

 very bright violet-purple ; pod 7f in. long by 1£ broad. Sporadic, in 

 the primitive forests of the lower mountains of Queta Central ; also 

 on the bushy slopes of Alto Queta towards the river Luinha ; fl. July 

 1856, in nearly ripe fr. Oct. 1855. One of the most beautiful plants 

 of the family. Cf . Fungus n. 223. No. 1861. 



Cazengo. — A small tree with an ample crown. A sort of " Mutala- 

 menha." At the margins of woods, between the left bank of the river 

 Luinha and Serra de Muxaulo ; fl. June 1855. No. 1862. 



Baillon, I.e., describes the calyx as quite glabrous, but in our speci- 

 mens it is somewhat velvety. Thonning describes the pedicels as 

 bibracteolate at the middle instead of the base, and the standard as 

 silky-pubescent outside instead of glabrous. 



The following No. should be compared with this species : — 



Loanda. — An erect shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high, with numerous stems (or 

 the fresh growth of a mutilated tree ?). In thickets on a poor soil, 

 between Quicuje and Mutollo, sporadic ; leafy branchlets without fl. 

 May 1854. No. 1848. 



2. M. drastica Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 128 ; 

 Ecalho, PI. Uteis, p. 132 (1884). 



Phaseolodes d/rasticv/m O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 202. 



Goltjngo Alto. — A small tree, 7 to 15 ft. high, or oftener a shrub 

 of 6 to 8 ft., with ample crown and habit of a Fraxinus ; wood very 

 strong and sturdy, employed for making excellent [char-]coal ; leaves 

 glaucous ; flowers of a pale or deep violet colour ; pods effectually 

 and promptly purgative when the decoction is taken in a tepid state: 

 Native names " Ditenda " or " Quitenda" or " pseudo-Mocumba." In 

 high thickets and in the more open woods at the margins of streams, 

 around Canguerasange, Quilombo, Bango, etc., rather common ; fl. 

 Oct. 1854 and March 1855, fr. 3 Jan. 1855 and Sept. 1856. No. 1856. 

 A small tree, 10 to 15 ft. high, or in secondary thickets a shrub of 

 6 to 8 ft., very elegant, with patent and rambling branches ; flowers 

 of a deep violet-rose colour, turning to purple when older ; rachis of 

 the racemes rigid. On the rather dry bushy slopes of the mountains 

 of Serra de Alto Queta, between Zengas and Carrengue ; fl. August 

 1855. No. 18566. Sange, at the Residency ; fr. A form with acute 

 leaflets. A decoction of the pods is used as a drastic purge. Coll. 

 Carp. 382. A bush, with racemose-paniculate purplish-rose flowers ; 

 at the Residency, fr. Sept. 1856. Coll. Carp. 466. 



Cazengo. — A small much-branched tree, 8 to 10 ft. high, or in 

 secondary thickets a shrub ; leaflets glaucescent ; racemes elegant, 



