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13. E. terniflorum Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 234. 

 Huilla.— Rhizome furnished with elongated tubers ; flowers yel- 

 lowish. In wooded bushy places near Nene ; fl. Nov. 1859. No. 4122. 



14. E. filipendulum Welw. ex Baker f., I.e., p. 235. 

 Huilla.— Flowers whitish. In dry thickets near Lopollo ; fl. and fr. 



Dec. 1859. No. 4097. 



15. E. elliptieum Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 227; Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 236. 



Huilla.— An erect sparingly branched undershrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; 

 leaves unifoliolate, oval-oblong, 1| to 3 by J to 1 in., with resmous 

 dots on both surfaces, deciduous when old at the time of the flower ; 

 stipules lanceolate, small, early caducous ; stipels subulate, T V in. long, 

 caducous ; flowers yellow ; style filiform, not dilated towards the apex ; 

 pod compressed, elliptical, obliquely pointed, 1£ by | in. ; seeds 2. Very 

 rarely met with, in stony thickets at the margins of forests, between 

 Mumpulla and Humpata, at an elevation of about 4000 ft. ; in leaf in 

 Oct. and sparingly in fl. and fr. Dec. i859. No. 4102. 



16. E. Muxiria Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 229 ; 

 Ficalho,Pl.TTteis, p. 143(1884); Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 236. 



Muxiria utilis Welw. Apont. p. 573. 



Pungo Andongo. — An undershrub ; stems erect, hard-woody at the 

 base ; root very thick, obliquely descending, forming a fleshy tuber 

 2 in. long and 1 in. in diam., surrounded by thinner equally fleshy 

 lateral fibres 4 to 6 ft. long ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets 

 stipellate, sinuous or repand at the margin, silky-strigose and silvery- 

 glistening on the lower surface, with resinous glands difficult to discern ; 

 stipels striate, persistent ; peduncles and racemes very straight ; flowers 

 almost blue or violet, variegated with yellow and purple ; bracts 

 persistent at the base of the calyx ; ovary 2-seeded. The roots are 

 employed, together with the fruits of the species of Eleusine called 

 " Luco," for the purpose of making a kind of beer called " Chlla." The 

 plant is indigenous along the banks of the Cuanza, and is at times 

 cultivated. In fl. from May to July, also in Oct. and Nov.; very 

 frequent in the rocky rather dry woods at the banks of the river 

 Cuanza, near Mopope, etc. ; fl. 1 May 1857. Native name " Muxiri " 

 or " Mugiri." No. 4094. 



17. E. flemingioides Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 229; 

 Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 1895, p. 236. 



Golungo Alto.- — An almost suffruticose herb, with ascending stems 

 2 to 3 ft. high ; flowers variegated with yellow and purple. Rather 

 rare by the lower dense thickets along the banks of the river Coango ; 

 fl. and fr. May 1856. No. 4112. 



Cazengo. — Habit that of the genus Flem'mgia ; leaves stipellate ; 

 flowers yellowish ; at Dalatanda ; fl. June 1855. No. 4113. 



Pungo Andongo. — Near the rivulet Niege ; fl. and young fr. May 

 1857. No. 4110. An undershrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, with yellow flowers. 

 In wooded thickets, Pedras de Guinga, between Caghuy and Calungo ; 

 fl. and young fr. April 1857. No. 4111. 



Our specimens differ from the type of the species by the branches 

 being straighter and but little bent, by greater variability in the shape 

 of the leaflets being in most cases narrower, and by the sub-paniculate 

 racemes in the case of some of the Pungo Andongo specimens. 



