Millettia] xliv. leguminos^e. 229 



base ; ovary sessile, compressed, lanceolate-linear, gradually tapering 

 into the style, furnished with white pilose hairs ; ovules 7 to 11 ; pods 

 pendulous. In fl. 8 July, end of July, and in August 1856, in nearly 

 ripe fr. and in leaf in August 1855 ; in the primitive forests of 

 Quibanga about Sange, and at the left bank of the river Ouango. A 

 kind of Mutalla-menha. No. 1850. 



7. M. rhodantha Baill. in Adans. vi. p. 223 (1866) ; Baker, I.e., 

 p. 131 ; Ficalho, PI. TJteis, p. 133 (1884). 



Milletia (sp.), Welw. Apont. p. 574, n. 174 (1859); Welw. 

 Synopse, p. 8, n. 9, p. 46, n. 126, ex parte. Phaseolodes rhodan- 

 ihum O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 202. 



Golungo Alto. — A small graceful tree, 8 to 12 ft. high, much 

 branched above ; leaves glaucescent ; flowers of a pale-violet colour. 

 On the bushy slopes of Mata de Quisucolo, near Bango Aquitamba ; 

 fl. Jan. 1856, not common. No. 1852. 



Pungo Andongo. — A tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, erect, with a lax crown : 

 trunk 6 to 9 in. in diam. at the base ; wood sulphur-yellow, aromatic, 

 of great utility among the negroes, being of high value and special 

 medicinal virtue ; leaves glaucescent, mostly oval-oblong, rufous- 

 shaggy along the midrib beneath ; stipules setaceous, rather exceeding 

 the shaggy petiolules. In bushy wooded places near Caghuy, rather 

 rare ; young fr. Jan. 1857 ; also near Luxillo at the end of Feb. 1857. 

 No. 1853. Coll. Carp, (specimen of the wood) 948. 



This tree, which is variously called in Pungo Andongo " Quiseco," 

 " Quisecua," and " Caseco," has a trunk attaining 1 to 2 ft. in diam., 

 and its wood is yellow, dense, firm and durable, and has a pleasant 

 aromatic odour ; it is employed for the making of domestic utensils 

 and agricultural implements (see Welw. Synopse, p. 8, n. 9, and Apont. 

 p. 574, n. 174). The aromatic powder of Caseco (or Caseque) is 

 obtained from the quite dry trunks of this species and also of 

 M. gracilis ; the native medical men chiefly apply it in the form of a 

 tonic ointment in the treatment of nervous and rheumatic headaches, 

 nearly always mixed with the powder of Pemba stone. Sticks of the 

 Caseco drug are invariably supplied in the markets of the coast and 

 also in the interior ; and there is sufficient reason to believe that other 

 trees besides those mentioned furnish it : thus, for example, the powder 

 of Quicongo ( Tarchonanihus) is often sold under this name. The native 

 doctors do not use it as sawdust, but they know how to grind it to a 

 very fine powder by carefully grating the wood over a rough stone. 

 (See Welw. Synopse, p. 46, n. 126.) 



8. M. Baptistarum Biittner in Verh. Bot. Brandenb. xxxii. p. 50 

 (1890). 



Ambriz. — A small tree, branched almost from the base upwards. In 

 rather open wooded situations below the bridge of Ambriz in the 

 direction of Mubango ; fr. end of Nov. 1853. No. 1846. 



Pungo Andongo. — A tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; trunk 6 to 8 in. in 

 diam. at the base ; wood yellowish ; leaves sparingly pellucid-punctate. 

 In mixed rocky and somewhat stony -woods near Luxillo, sporadic ; in 

 flower-bud middle of May and of June 1857. A kind of Mutalla- 

 menha. No. 1845. A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, with the habit of an ash 

 in the forests, but not uncommonly reduced to a shrub of 6 to 8 ft. 

 with numerous stems in secondary thickets ; flowers not seen. In 

 wooded places along the banks of the stream Lutete and in sandy 

 neighbouring forests ; nearly ripe fr. June 1857. No. 1849. 



