Millettia\ xliv. leguminos^e. 227 



. crowded, 5 to 12, at the extremity of the branches ; flowers of a violet 

 colour. On high-bushy slopes of the mountains of Serra de Muxaulo ; 

 fl. June 1855. Native names " Mutala menha " and " Mutala-menha 

 vaofele." No. 1857- 



Pungo Andongo. — A small tree ; trunk scarcely 3 in. in diameter ; 

 crown dilated ; branches patent ; rachis of the racemes thick, very 

 rigid ; flowers lilac-purple, handsome. In the rocky secondary woods 

 •of the fortress, near Oatete, not frequent ; fl. Jan., fr. April 1857 ; 

 " pseudo-Quisecua." No. 1858. 



3. M. gracilis Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 129. 

 Milhtia (sp.), Welw. Synopse, p. 46, n. 126, pro parte (1862). 



Phaseolodes gracile O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 202. 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree rarely if ever 8 to 10 ft. high, usually 

 a shrub of 3 to 6 ft., with a more slender habit than usual in this 

 genus ; rachis of the racemes very slender ; flowers violet-coloured ; 

 corolla sometimes rather small, at other times nearly double the size. 

 Sporadic, in the higher thickets of the mountains of Serra de Alto 

 Queta ; fl. March 1855. No. 1854. An erect shrub, 5 ft. high ; at 

 Capopa, at the margins of forests ; without fl. June 1856. No. 1854&. 



Ambaca. — A small tree 8 to 12 ft. high, or in secondary thickets 

 a little shrub of 2 to 3 ft., erect, elegant ; crown hemispherical ; leaves 

 deciduous at the time of flowering ; leaflets glaucous-green ; flowers of 

 a deep violet-rose colour. In thickets at the skirts of the forests of 

 Praia Cacarambola, and around Pamba (N-gombe) and Zanga, also near 

 Cabinde ; fl. middle of Oct. 1856 ; in leaf and young fr. June 1857 ; fr. 

 Sept. 1856 ; at an elevation of 3000 ft. Always sporadic. No. 1855. 



4. M. versicolor Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. PI. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 129; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 132 (1884). 



Robiniacea, Welw. Synopse, p. 15, sub n. 37 (1862). Phaseo- 

 lodes versicolor O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 202. 



Golungo Alto. — A shrub of 2 to 7 ft., or more rarely in the 

 primitive forests a small tree of 12 to 20 ft. : crown globular ; branches 

 erect or sub-erect ; flowers racemose-paniculate, terminal, variegated, 

 shining outside with a brown-golden indumentum ; standard brown- 

 golden-red, whitish inside ; wings and keel violet-purple sometimes 

 almost violet-blue ; pods always dehiscing when fully ripe though 

 much thickened along the upper and usually also along the lower 

 sutural edge. Not uncommon, in bushy places at the skirts of the 

 primitive forests throughout the district, from Trombeta as far as 

 Sange ; fl. March and April, fr. Jan. and June 1855 and March 1856, 

 flower-bud Sept. 1854. Native name "Muzumbo," "Muzumbe," 

 "Muzumba," or "Mussumbo." No. 1859. Certainly the first and 

 probably the other four of the following Nos. : — Coll. . Cakp. 383, 

 384, 392, 393, and 465. 



Muzumba is a handsome tree occurring in rather dry situations in 

 the eastern mountainous parts of the province ; the wood is justly 

 reputed as one of the most beautiful, strong and durable ; and the 

 inner bark is generally made available for ties in the construction 

 of the huts (cubatas) of the natives ; so strong is this wood that the 

 negroes often employ it instead of iron nails to pin chests together and 

 other domestic utensils. (See Welw. Synopse, p. 15 n. 37.) 



The following also apparently belongs to this species : — 



Golungo Alto. — A small tree, with red-cinnamon tomentose pani- 

 culate papilionaceous flowers ; on the road from Cambondo to the 



