238 xliv. legxjminos^;. [Bamapana 



bushy rocky rather dry places from Ferrao da Sola in the direction of 

 Jau ; fl. beginning of April 1860. No. 2135. 



5. D. Welwitschii. 



Smithia Welwitschii Taub. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 190 (1896). 

 A glabrous shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, rarely higher, with the habit 

 of a Coronilla ; branches hard, brown-purple ; branchlets (after 

 the leaves have fallen) nodose and pseudo-articulate ; leaves pari- 

 pinnate, 3- or 4- or rarely 5-jugate, glaucous, rather fleshy, 

 (including the common petiole of A to § in.) measuring 1| to 1| in. 

 long or more; leaflets opposite, obliquely oval, obtuse at both 

 ends, retuse and mucronulate at the apex, shortly petiolulate and 

 unequal at the base, reticulate, f to f in. long by ^ to f in. broad ; 

 stipules large, quickly caducous, round-oval, sessile, with parallel 

 and anastomosing veins, about § in. long by g in. broad, not 

 adnate to the petiole ; stipels ; racemes quasi- terminal, about 

 2 in. long or sometimes longer, bearing about 10 flowers ; common 

 peduncle about | in. long ; bracts obcordate-orbicular, greenish- 

 yellow, scarious, persistent, not ciliate, with parallel and anasto- 

 mosing veins, k to § in. long, sessile ; pedicels about J ff in. long, 

 curved, hairy ; flowers yellow, about § in. long, enclosed separately 

 in the doubled bracts ; bracteoles 2, oval, entire, ciliolate, £ in. 

 long, at the base of the flower ; calyx deeply bilabiate, equalling 

 the corolla ; upper lip bidentate, lower lip tridentate ; wing-petals 

 marked outside with 3 short stripes; stamens 10, monadelphous ; 

 filaments alternating longer and shorter ; ovary hairy ; pod usually 

 1- or 2- very rarely 3-jointed. Fruiting racemes much resembling 

 the strobiles of Humulus Lupulus, L. 



Huilla. — In elevated rocky thickets, abundant but found only in 

 one spot in Morro de Monino (or Moninho) ; fl. Feb. and in nearlv ripe 

 fr. middle of April 1860. No. 2141. 



This species differs from other species of the genus by its large 

 round investing bracts, and approaches the genus Geissaspis. 



22. STYLOSANTHES Swartz ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 517. 



1. S. erecta P. Beauv. Fl. Ow. ii. p. 28, t. 77 (1807) ; Baker in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 156. 



Yar. guineensis Vog. in Linnsea xii. p. 68 (1838) ; Taubert in 

 Verh. Bot. Brandenb. xxxii. p. 24 (1890). 



Ambkiz.— Frequent on dry gravelly hills near Ambriz : fl. and fr. 

 Nov. 1853. No. 2123. 



Loanda. — A pale-green herb, with the habit of Ononis ; rootstock 

 thick, many-headed, perennial ; stems ascending ; flowers yellow, the 

 fertile ones not uncommonly apetalous and without stamens ; seeds 

 reniform. On sea-sands near Penedo ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1858. No. 2124. 



Pungo Andongo. — In sandy pastures between Caghuy and Sansa- 

 manda, among shrubs ; fl. and fr. Feb. 1857. Quoted by Taubert 

 under this variety, but referred by Baker, I.e., p. 157 to the next 

 species. No. 2125. 



Var. acuminata Welw. ex Baker, I.e. ; Taubert, I.e., p. 23. 

 Pungo Andongo.— An erect slender little shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; 

 stems at length smooth ; leaflets much acuminate, J to \\ in. long,' 



