252 xliv. leguminosa [Stieolobium 



April 1856 ; young fr. May 1855 ; ripe fr. April, May and July 1856. 

 No. 2238. In reed-beds near Trombeta among Andropogon sp. A 

 winter form, flowering and fruiting a second time, June 1855. 

 No. 22386. 



GtOlungo and Cazengo. — Pods unisulcate on their faces ; furrows 

 longitudinal or rather marked along with a winged-shaped rib. Called 

 " Quicuta azul." Coll. Carp. 406. Apparently fruits of the same 

 species from tropical America. Coll. Carp. 407. 



3. S. stans 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 208 (1891). 

 Mueuna stans Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 187. 



Pungo Andongo. — A shrub, 5 to 6 ft. high or more, standing erect, 

 much branched from the base ; branches erect, virgate, as well as the 

 branchlets erect-patent ; leaves evergreen, pinnately trif oliolate, silvery- 

 shining, rather thick, soft, not coriaceous. Neither the stems nor the 

 leaves, nor at length either the calyces or the pods, are of an herbaceous- 

 green colour ; flowers blue or dark-purplish, fascicled in a ternate 

 fashion in erect-patent racemes, secund ; calyx tubular-campanulate, 

 bilabiate ; upper lip shortly cleft ; lower lip tridentate, the middle tooth 

 being longer than the other two ; standard broadly ovate, repand at 

 the base on both sides of the claw, incumbent on the equally long 

 wing-petals ; keel longer than the standard and wings, sub-falcate 

 towards the apex, cartilaginous-rigid, acuminate-pungent as mostly 

 in Mueuna ; stamens 10, diadelphous ; 5 filaments equal ; 5 clavate- 

 thickened towards the apex, bearing incumbent circular-ovate anthers, 

 while the anthers of the other stamens are oblong-linear and erect ; 

 ovary pilose, elongated-conical ; stigma narrowly capitate, very thinly 

 glandular-penicillate. Hairs of the pods stinging rather severely, 

 as in S. pruriens. Frequent, in rocky thickets within the lines of 

 fortification, as for example near Cazella and Catete ; fl. 14 April 

 1857, fr. Nov. 1856. No. 2237. In primitive forests; fr. May 1857. 

 Coll. Carp. 408. 



4. S. Poggei. 



Mueuna Poggei Taub. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 194 (1896). 



A shrub, climbing to a great height, pendulous towards the 

 extremities, stinging badly; branches glabrescent; branchlets 

 sub-herbaceous, pilose ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets obtuse 

 at both ends, cuspidate or apiculate at the apex, somewhat 

 pubescent with appressed hairs above, glistening beneath with 

 appressed hairs ; lateral leaflets very obliquely ovate, rounded or 

 somewhat excavated at the base, the lower side broad almost 

 auricled, the whole 3 to 4 \ by 2 to 3 1 in. on a short pilose petiolule 

 of g to | in. long stipellate at the base ; the central leaflet some- 

 what rhomboidal or broadly ovate 3| to 4| by 2£ to 3| in., on a 

 petiolule of | to lj in. articulate and stipellate a little below the 

 top ; common petiole 2^ to 5 in. long ; racemes about a foot long 

 or more; pedicels \ to § in., often 2 together; flowers numerous, 

 2 to 3J in. long, the largest of all Angolan Leguminosse except 

 Gigantkemum seandens Welw., Herb. No. 550, yellowish-green, 

 rather fleshy; calyx very shortly campanulate, almost pan- 

 shaped, sub-bilabiate, fleshy-rigid, beset outside throughout with 

 golden-tawny rigid almost glassy stinging pilose hairs; upper 

 lip shortly bidentate; lower lip obtusely and shortly 3-lobed; 



