248 xliv. leguminos^e. [Abrus 



stream near Sange, and by the Banza de Quilombo ; ripe fr. June 1856. 

 No. 2248. 



2. A. canescens Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 175. 



Cazengo.— An undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, clothed with appressed 

 pubescence throughout, much branched, with long weak twining or 

 intricate branchlets ; young leaves with a silvery lustre, adult leaves of 

 different colours on the two surfaces, pubescent on both surfaces, 

 hoary beneath ; leaflets 16 to 22 ; pods compressed, yellowish-green, 

 mostly 6-8-seeded, not seen fully ripe, 1£ to lj in. long by | to § in. 

 broad. In dense thickets along the banks of the river Moembege, near 

 Dalatanda ; fr. June 1855, at an elevation of 2000 ft. No. 2249. 



Pungo Andongo. — A weak slender widely climbing undershrub ; 

 branches thin ; flowering branchlets very long, virgate-sarmentose, 

 more or less hoary-pubescent as also the leaves and bracts ; leaflets 20 

 to 26 ; flowers arranged on a not thickened axis in remote spurious 

 whorls, of a deep- violet-purple colour ; pods If to 2 in. long, | to T 5 j in. 

 broad, compressed, about 8-seeded, yellowish-brown in the living state, 

 appressedly pubescent, not seen fully ripe. In rocky bushy places 

 along the base of the gigantic rocks of Pungo Andongo fortress, near 

 Canandua and near the road leading to Cambonde. rather rare ; fi. and 

 young fr. April 1857, at an elevation of 3800 ft. No. 2250. 



Baker, I.e., p. 176, regarded the Cazengo plant as probably a different 

 but closely allied species. 



32. CLIT0EIA Dillen., L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 528. 

 1. C. Ternatea L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 753 (1753) ; Baker in Oliv. 

 PI. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 177. Of. Robiniaeea, Welw. Apont, p. 590, 

 no. 36. 



Loanda. — An apparently annual herb ; stem at first erect, here and 

 there twining from the sarmentose branched base ; flowers large white ; 

 frequent in dried up clayey fields flooded in the summer, between 

 the city of Loanda and Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. July and Dec. 1858. An 

 undershrub, woody at the base ; stem abbreviated ; branches virgate- 

 elongated, twining ; pods whitish, chartaceous, linear, rather compressed, 

 somewhat torulose between the seeds ; between Teba and Quicuxe ; 

 fr. July and August 1858. A herb, apparently lasting for several 

 years but scarcely perennial, sometimes prostrate but mostly scandent ; 

 flowers whitish with a very pale-yellow tinge ; calyx bi-bracteolate, 

 tubular, gradually dilated, at the base with 5 prominent thick nerves, 

 gibbous, equally and deeply 5-clef t ; standard large, much exceeding 

 the wing-petals and keel ; stamens 10, diadelphous ; ovary elongate- 

 oblong, softly pilose ; style rather compressed, sigmoid-curved at the 

 Tjase, bearded below at the apex ; in rather dry sandy places, near 

 Maianga do Povo and de El Rei, climbing on species of Euphorbia and 

 Rhipsalis ; fl. end of Dec. 1858. No. 2215. An undershrub ; flowers 

 whitish, handsome. A form with narrow leaves. On plains flooded 

 in the rainy season, near Quicuxe ; fl. and fr. June 1854. No. 22156. 

 An annual or biennial herb ; stem branched, twiggy ; leaves pinnate ; 

 flowers large, white. In fields after a crop of maize ; Quicuxe, f r. June 

 1860. Coll. Carp. 458. 



Barea do Bengo. — A heterophyllous form. In bushy places at the 

 banks of the river Bengo, near S. Antonio ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1853. 

 No. 2216. 



GtOlungo Alto. — On bushy hills, on a red-clay soil, near Sange, 

 fl. and fr. May 1855 and August 1857. No. 2217. 



