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18. DIPHACA Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 453 (1790). Ormocarpum, 

 P. Beauv. (1805); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 515. 



1. D. cocainchinensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 454 (1790). 



Ormocarpum sennoides DC. Prodr. ii. p. 315 (1825); Baker in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 143. Hedysarum fruticosum Rottler ex 

 Schum. Guin. PI. p. 356 (1827). Solurus cochinchinensis 0. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 205 (1891). O. Bwhhohii Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vii. 

 p. 336 (1886) fide Taub. in Engl., I.e., xxiii. p. 189 (1896). 



Loanda. — In valleys near Boa Vista, in Feb. 1854 ; specimens de- 

 stroyed. No. 2118. 



Golungo Alto. — An erect shrub, branched from the base, 3 to 4 ft. 

 high ; bark purple-black ; leaflets deep-green above, glaucous below ; 

 standard and wing-petals sulphur-coloured, marked with brown-purple 

 veins ; keel pale-sulphur ; pod even when young quite glabrous. In 

 moist secondary thickets along the base of Serra do Alto Queta near 

 the river Cuango, at Arimo do Isidro ; fl. and young fr. end of March 

 1856. No. 2117. 



Cazengo. — A much-branched shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high ; branches and 

 branchlets patent, the upper ones rather erect ; bark red-brown, 

 smooth ; flowers racemose, in the uppermost axils of the leaves ; calyx 

 bilabiate, 5-fid, green; keel sordid-straw colour; petals of the keel and 

 standard straw-coloured, marked in a jointed manner with purplish 

 veins. Sparingly in the rather dry thickets on the left bank of the 

 river Luinha and Palmeira ; fl. and young fr. Dec. 1854. No. 21176. 



19. HEKMINIERA Guill. & Perr. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 

 p. 515. 



1. H. Elaphroxylon Guill. et Perr. Fl. Senegamb. Tent, (i.) 

 p. 201, t. 51 (1833) ; Welw. Apont. p. 573 (1859) ; Baker in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 144; Ficalho, PL Uteis, p. 133 (1884). 



Baeea do Bengo. — An erect weak little tree, 12 to 20 ft. high, almost 

 pyramidal, with elongated primary trunk and branches virgate elon- 

 gated, gradually shorter ; lower branches nodding ; flowers large saffron- 

 orange-coloured, very elegant and handsome ; pod spirally curved 

 inwards. Along the left bank of the river Bengo, near Quifandongo, 

 , not abundant ; fl. and ripe fr. 12 Sept. 1854. No. 2119. Wood very 

 light and quite white ; trunk a foot and more in diam. at the base. By 

 the river Bengo ; fr. June 1857. Coll. Carp. 394. 



Mossamedes. — A low tree, sometimes slender, at other times with a 

 trunk nearly a foot in diam. at a foot above the ground, then suddenly 

 much narrowed and 6 or 7 ft. higher scarcely 1 to li in. thick, growing 

 densely casspitose, ranging from 10 to 15 ft. in height, much branched, 

 usually mutilated by the negroes ; timber very light and useful. In 

 marshy places along the banks of the river Caroca (at the time of 

 collection only a rivulet), near Porto de Pinda and Cabo Negro in the 

 interior ; fl. 2 Sept. 1859. No. 2120. Cabo Negro, Sept. 1859. Wood. 

 Coll. Carp. 949. 



This tree is called " Bimba" by the colonists, and perhaps also by the 

 N-Bundas. The timber of Bimba much resembles that of the Pita- 

 thread tree (Agave) ; it does not exceed 20 or at the most 25 ft. in 

 height, and its trunk measures at the base 6 to 16 in. in diam. ; not- 

 withstanding its fibrous appearance the wood is strong and durable, 

 and the natives of Benguella and Mossamedes frequently use it for 

 domestic purposes, such as beds, stools, etc., and more especially for 



