270 xliv. leguminos^e. [DoUcholus 



long as the terminal one, on very short petiolules ; stipels small, 

 setaceous, near the apex at a bend of the terminal petiolule, also 

 at the base of the lateral ones ; racemes axillary lateral or quasi- 

 terminal, many-flowered, simple or divided, (including a peduncle 

 of 1 to 3 in.) 3 to 12 in. long, pubescent; pedicels short, about 

 Jg in. ; bracteoles lanceolate-subulate, deciduous ; flowers | in. 

 long, patent or drooping ; calyx shaggy outside, § in. long ; tube 

 g in. long, teeth subulate, the upper ones connate half way ; 

 standard densely pubescent on the back ; petals of the keel || in. 

 long, with a long claw at the base ; wing-petals shorter, clawed at 

 the base, adhering in the middle to the keel ; style glabrous towards 

 the apex ; pods shaggy, 1 ^ in. long by | in. broad, clothed with 

 bright yellowish hairs when young, patent or drooping ; seeds 2. 



Golungo Alto. — A diffuse, often scandent herb, but in bare spots 

 running out far horizontally ; corolla pale sulphur-yellow, keel and 

 standard marked towards the apex with purple lines, wing-petals 

 deep-yellow. In uncultivated situations at the sides of thickets near 

 Menha-Lula ; fl. and fr. June 1855. No. 4078. A suffruticose annual 

 herb, wholly viscid, climbing widely ; flowers sulphur-yellowish, with 

 the keel violet-coloured at the apex. By thickets along the borders of 

 forests in Sobato de Mussengue ; fl. May and July 1856. No. 4079. 



Pungo Andongo. — In flower. No. 4082. 



Nearly related to Rhynehosia stipulosa A. Rich., which Baker (I.e., 

 p. 222) united with JR. viscosa DC. 



12. D. ambacensis Hiern, sp. n. 



An erect or ascending herb, hoary- or somewhat tawny-silvery 

 tomentellous, lg ft. high or more ; rootstock woody perennial ; stem 

 and branches firm, sub-terete ; leaves trifoliolate or occasionally 

 unifoliolate ; stipules lanceolate, hairy outside, glabrous inside, | to 

 | in. long, deciduous ; stipels subulate, hairy, small, very deciduous ; 

 petiole § to l s in. long; terminal leaflet rhomboid or reniform- 

 orbicular, obtusely narrowed to an apiculate apex, cordate or 

 hollowed at the base, entire, subcoriaceous, softly tomentellous 

 especially beneath, scattered on both sides with minute sessile 

 glands, 1| to 3 in. long by 1 2 to 4 in. broad on a petiolule of § to 

 g in. ; lateral leaflets unequal-sided, otherwise similar and about 

 the same length, on very short petiolules ; flowers bright yellow, 

 s in. long, numerous, arranged in axillary and sub-terminal 

 simple or branched racemes of 2 to 4 in. ; pedicels ranging up to 

 £ in. ; bracteoles like the stipules but smaller and often much 

 narrower; calyx § in. long, shortly pubescent, tube ^ in. long, 

 lowest lobe lanceolate-acuminate longer than the others, the two 

 upper lobes connate about half way ; standard somewhat hairy on 

 the back, the other petals glabrous ; stamens diadelphous ; ovary 

 hairy ; style glabrous above ; pods oblanceolate, compressed, more 

 or less scattered with long hairs, closely beset with minute sessile 

 glands, a little curved, 2-seeded with a transverse depression on 

 both sides between the seeds, 2-valved, about 1 in. long by | in. 

 broad or a little larger ; seeds £ in. long. 



Ambaca.— Abundant, in dry sandy-clayey thickets between Izanga 

 and Ambaca ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 4077. 



