254 xliv. LEGUMINOS.E. [Dioclea 



38. DIOCLEA H. B. & K. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 536. 



1. D. reflexa Hook. f. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 306 (1849) ; Welw. 

 Apont. p. 584, n. 9 (1859) ; Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 189. 



Golungo Alto.— A widely and rather high climbing undershrub, 

 hanging down for a long distance ; stem twining ; petioles and leaves 

 patently pilose ; flowers deep violet-purple, handsome. On tall shrubs, 

 in Sobato Cabanga Cacalungo ; fl. and fr. March 1856, at an elevation 

 of 2400 ft. No. 2232. A much-branched scandent shrub ; seeds 2 or 3, 

 biconvex, two-thirds surrounded by the long linear umbilicus. Cabanga 

 Oacabunga, Feb. 1856. Near Trombeta, Sept. 1857. Coll. Carp. 411. 



39. CANAVALI Adans. Fam. PI. ii. p. 325 (1763); CanavaMa 

 DC. (1825), Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 537. 



1. C. maritima P. Thouars in Desv. Journ. Bot. i. p. 80 (1813). 

 Canavalia obtusifolia DC. Prodr. ii. p. 404 (1825) ; Baker in 



Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 190. Canavalia Moneta Welw. Apont. 

 p. 588, n. 62. 



Ambriz. — In maritime sandy stations at the mouth of the river 

 Loge on the left bank, near the bridge at Ambriz ; only one plant, 

 fr. without fl. Nov. 1853. No. 2192 (partly). Coll. Carp. 412. 



Barra do Dande. — Seeds when quite ripe red-brown, oblong- or 

 obovoid-globose, very hard. Praia de S. Thiago ; fr. Sept. 1858. 

 No. 2192 (partly). An annual plant, procumbent to a great distance. 

 Praia de S. Thiago ; fr. Sept. Coll. Carp. 416. Leaflets obovate- 

 rotund ; flowers purple ; seeds 5 or 6 (Welw. Apont., I.e.). 



Loanda. — A creeping herb, ascending, coriaceous-fleshy throughout 

 even to the flowers ; stem puberulous with white sub-appressed hairs ; 

 leaflets rigidly coriaceous, elliptic-orbicular, scarcely shining, wrinkled- 

 veiny above, densely raised-veiny between the lateral veins below ; 

 corolla bright-purple, coriaceous ; petioles and petiolules deeply 

 channelled ; pods linear-oblong, 5-8-seeded. Bather rare, but several 

 specimens near together, in maritime sandy places, near Conceigao, 

 after the fall of the flower, in June 1858. No. 2191. Penedo ; fr. 

 August 1858. Coll. Carp. 415. Suffruticose, scandent, or prostrate, 

 with very long runners ; seeds used as small change. Boa Vista Sept. 

 1854. Coll. Carp. 533. 



2. C. incurvaP. Thouars in Desv. Journ. Bot. Appl. i. p. 80 (1813). 

 Canavalia ensiformis DCProdr.ii. p. 404 (1825) ; Baker,Z.c.,p.l90. 

 Loanda. — A high-climbing herb ; flowers whitish-rose-coloured ; 



pods 12 to 13 in. long ; seeds red. Cultivated and occasionally sub- 

 spontaneous, and amidst neglected crops in gardens, about the city of 

 Loanda; fl. and fr. March to June 1858. No. 2193. A high and 

 widely climbing undershrub, annual ; leaflets sub-coriaceous ; flowers 

 rose-coloured ; pods a foot long ; seeds white. In neglected plots of 

 previous cultivation near Bemposta ; fl. and fr. May 1859. No. 2194. 

 Fr. cultivated in gardens in the city of Loanda, August 1858. Coll. 

 Carp. 951. 



Golungo Alto. — A large herb, somewhat shrubby at the base ; 

 stems very tenacious, hard, green, climbing far and wide ; rachis of the 

 flowering racemes very hard, rigid, coarsely nodose ; flowers violet- 

 purple ; calyx green. Not at all common, in rather open woods by 

 thickets along the right bank of the rivulet Quibolo ; fl. and young fr. 

 19 March 1856 and May 1855. No. 2195. Ripe fr. June 1855. 

 Coll. Carp. 414. Large red bean ; Sept. 1855. Coll. Carp. 413. 



