Eriosema] xliv leguminos^e. 273 



of Cytisus. In the drier thickets between Isange and N-gombe ; fl. and 

 fr. Oct. 1856. No. 4105. 



5. E. glomeratum Hook. f. & Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 313 ; 

 Baker, I.e., p. 228; Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 228. 



Ambriz. — By the river Quizembo : without either fl. or fr. Nov. 

 1853. No. 4109. 



Golukuo Alto. — An erect undershrub, or herb becoming woody at 

 the base ; flowers yellow, capitate ; rather sparingly in reed-beds, 

 Serra de Alto Queta, above Camilungo ; with ripe fr. August 1856. 

 No. 4108. In fl. and fr. ; no notes. No. 4107. 



6. E. pygmseum Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 225; Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 229. 



Huilla. — Flowers yellowish, with a purple keel. In wooded 

 thickets near Mumpulla, at an elevation of 4000 ft., in company with 

 species of Thesium and Thunbergia ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 4123. 



7. E. Welwitschii Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 229. 

 Ambaca. — A dwarf perennial herb, with decumbent tenacious stems 



becoming woody at the base, and deep-yellow flowers. Not uncommon 

 in sandy sparingly grassy situations at the banks of the Pampa stream 

 near Ambaca ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1856. No. 4121. 



8. E. cyclophyllum Welw. ex Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 231. 

 Huilla. — A perennial herb ; rootstock many-headed, tuberous- 



filipendulous ; stems sub-csespitose, prostrate-ascending ; ieaves orbi- 

 cular, subsessile ; flowers orange-purplish. In shortly bushy rather 

 rocky pastures about Lopollo, but by no means abundant ; fl. and fr. 

 Dec. 1859. No. 4096. 



9. E. prunelloides Welw. ex Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 232. 

 Pungo Andongo. — In sandy thickets near Condo ; fl. and f r. March 



1857. No. 4100. 



10. E. graeile Welw. ex Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 233; 

 non Klotzsch. 



E. gracillimwm Baker f., I.e., p. 232. 



Pungo Andongo. — In marshy meadows near Sansamanda ; fl. and 

 fr. May 1857. No. 4098. 



This species, with its weak prostrate stems, and pods much exceed- 

 ing the calyx, fluctuates, as Welwitsch remarks in his ms. note, 

 between this genus and Dolicholus. Since Klotzsch 's E. gracilis has 

 been reduced to a synonym of E. glomeratum Hook. f. & Benth., there 

 appears no necessity to neglect Welwitsch's name. 



11. E. psiloblepharum Welw. ex Baker f., I.e., p. 233. 

 Pungo Andongo. — At Quitage, in the rainy season ; fl. and fr. 



March 1857. No. 4101. 



12. E. leucanthum Welw. ex Baker f., I.e., p. 234. 



Huilla. — Root napiform ; flowers whitish-yellowish ; calyx deeply 

 5-lobed ; lobes narrow nearly equal among themselves, many times 

 longer than the tube ; petals all clawed ; standard obovate, not appen- 

 daged ; wings narrow, almost sigmoid ; keel curved, obtuse ; vexillary 

 stamen free ; ovary sessile, pilose, 2-ovuled ; style elongate-filiform, 

 curved in the middle, below the capitate and thinly papillose stigma 

 somewhat flatly dilated ; pods oblong-suborbicular, 2-seeded. In hilly 

 almost bushy situations near Lopollo ; fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 4099. 



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