Meibomia] xliv. leguminos.e. 243 



Golungo Alto. — An undershrub, or rather a robust herb, 2 to 3 ft. 

 high. Along the banks of the river Muria, in the bush near Trombeta ; 

 fr. Sept. 1854. No. 2148. An erect undershrub, becoming woody at 

 the base, 3 to 5 ft. high ; leaves trif oliolate ; racemes pyramidal, with 

 small flowers. In spongy thickets near Sange, at the stream Quiapoze ; 

 fr. with good seeds June 1857. Coll. Caep. 444. 



11. M. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 

 Desmodium huillensis Welw. ms. in Herb. 



A perennial herb of 2 to 4 ft. or an undershrub of 4 to 7 ft., 

 woody at the base ; stems strict nearly simple or with rather 

 spreading virgate branches, reddish beneath the whitish pubes- 

 cence, terete below; leaves unifoliate, erect-patent, pale-green, 

 hoary, lanceolate, pointed at the apex, rounded or slightly cordate 

 at the base, rigid, usually folded inwards along the midrib, 2| to 

 4 in. long by | to -| in. broad when opened flat ; petiole broadly 

 winged, j to | in. long, wings foliaceous, of the same colour, 

 texture and surface as the leaf, terminating upwards with a 

 stipelliform narrow apiculus ; stipules narrowly lanceolate, £ to 

 i in. long, deciduous; racemes terminal and axillary, strict, 

 apparently forming a pyramidal panicle ; flowers | to 1 in. long ; 

 pedicels ranging up to \ in. long, pubescent, bracteate at the base, 

 solitary or a few together ; calyx \ to § in. long, campanulate, 

 ebracteolate, pubescent, bilabiate ; the upper lip ovate, acute, 

 minutely bidentate at the tip ; the lower lip rather exceeding the 

 upper lip, deeply trifid, lobes ovate acute, the lowest outermost 

 and longest each rather narrower than the upper lip ; standard of 

 a dirty-blue colour, obovate-orbicular, in flower patent reclinate 

 folded backwards, longitudinally striate, not quite glabrous on the 

 back, with a short broad channelled claw ; wing-petals deep blue, 

 obliquely oval, ascending, shorter than the standard and keel, 

 somewhat adhering to the keel ; keel greenish-blue, boat-shaped, 

 rather blunt ; stamens diadelphous ; the axillary stamen free at 

 the base and apex; 5 of the remaining 9 stamens with oblong 

 uniform anthers on short stalks ; 4 stamens with abortive anthers 

 which consist of elliptical white membranes embracing the inter- 

 vening perfect anthers; ovary stipitate, compressed, linear, 

 6-ovuled, girt at the base of the stipes with a thin rather tall 

 disk, densely hairy at the edges, glabrous on the two faces ; style 

 rather compressed, sub-glabrous, filiform ; stigma small, capitate ; 

 pod an inch long or longer, densely shaggy, on a long shaggy 

 stipes of 1 to \\ in. ; joints 4 or 5, elliptical, narrowed on both 

 •ends, with a shaggy golden-yellow tomentum appressed on the 

 faces and spreading at the margins. 



Huilla. — Very abundant on rather dry sparingly bushy hills 

 between Lopollo and Ferrao da Sola, at an elevation of about 5000 ft. ; 

 rather rarely flowering ; fl. and young fr. 17 March 1860. No. 2167. 



12. M. megalantha. 



Desmodium megalanthum Taub. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 192 

 (1896). 



A perennial herb ; root woody, several -headed ; stems gregarious, 



