Dolichos] xi.iv. leguminosjE. 265 



free, kneed at the base, glandular-appendaged at the knee ; anthers 

 uniform ; ovary 3-4-ovuled, scarcely stipitate, girt at the base with a 

 high tender truncate sheath ; style glabrous, compressed- dilated above 

 the ovary ; stigma terminal, capitate, penicillate. In neglected fields, 

 along the borders of forests, between Sange and Undelle, amidst 

 deserted plantations of Manihot utilissima Pohl., rare ; fl. Feb., in 

 full foliage in May 1856 ; fr. not seen. Native name " Dongaluta." 

 No. 2225. 



Pungo Andongo. — Probably a form of the same species with 

 narrower leaflets ; in bushy places, on a dry-sandy soil, near Luxillo ; 

 in leaf without either fl. or fr. April 1857. No. 2226. 

 « The fleshy-fibrous rhizome of this plant is cultivated in small 

 quantities in Angola, and is considered to be the most efficient remedy 

 in cases of gangrenous quinsies (see Welw. Apont. p. 574). 



9. D. elatus Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 214. 



Pungo Andongo. — An undershrub, almost a full shrub, 3 to 7 ft. 

 high ; stems erect, branched, as thick as a finger at the base ; branches 

 erect-spreading ; leaflets 3, ovate-orbicular ; flowers violet-purple. In 

 rocky wooded places, at the banks of the river Cuanza, near Mupopo ; 

 fl. and young fr. 30 April 1857. No. 20756. 



10. D. pseudo-cajanus Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 215. 



Pungo Andongo. — An erect herb, suffruticose at the base, 2 to 3 ft. 

 high ; flowers whitish-yellow ; standard of a violet tinge ; style always 

 twisted at the base. In wooded tall-grassy meadows, between Caghuy 

 and Candumba ; fl. and young fr. May 1857. No. 2222. 



11. D. splendens Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 215. 



Pungo Andongo. — A perennial erect herb ; stem 2| to 3 ft. high, 

 simple or loosely branched, marked with several furrows, silky-pubes- 

 cent as also the stipules petioles pedicels and calyces ; young leaves 

 silvery-velvety, shining ; leaflets lanceolate or narrowly ovate, acute, 

 velvety-tomentose on both surfaces, the younger ones silvery-spark- 

 ling beneath ; petioles longer than the leaflets. Stipules and bracts 

 strict. Flowers blue-purple, handsome, almost an inch long, 1 to 3 

 together in the axils of the leaves, erect; pedicels I to \ in. long ; 

 bracteoles linear or nearly filiform, very caducous ; style cartilaginous, 

 twisted at the base, dilated for the lower two-thirds, channelled above! 

 In elevated stony pastures, within the fortified lines of Pungo 

 Andongo, near the Salt Spring, in Tunda Quilombo ; fl. from Dec. 

 1856 to May 1857 ; fr. May 1857, at an elevation of 3800 ft. No. 2223. 



Huilla. — Leaves narrower, gradually acuminate ; flowers of a 

 brilliant violet-purple colour. In stony thickets, near Lopollo, in 

 Morro de Ferrao da Sola; fl. and fr. young and ripe Dec. 1859 and 

 Jan. 1860. No. 2224. 



12. D. Anehietse Hiern, sp. n. 



Stems and branches subglabrate, rigidly herbaceous or some- 

 what woody, bluntly angular, or apparently climbing, pale-tawny ; 

 leaves pinnately trifoliolate, pale green and more or less scattered 

 with short hairs above, paler dotted with small reddish glands and 

 often more closely beset with short hairs beneath ; stipules small, 

 ovate, deciduotis ; petiole 1 to 3| in. long ; terminal leaflet ovate 

 or somewhat rhomboid, very obtuse at the apex, obtuse rounded 

 or somewhat emarginate at the base, subcoriaceous or chartaceous, 

 entire or scarcely repand, \\ to 5 in. long by 1 to 4 in. broad, on 



