276 xliv. LEGUMiNosiE. [Amerimnon 



Golungo Alto. — A very elegant bushy shrub, sometimes standing 

 erect, sometimes climbing far and widely ; trunk at the base as thick 

 as a man's arm or thicker ; branches shoots and calyces red-purple ; 

 flowers very beautiful, changing colour, at first reddish, then yellowish, 

 and afterwards turning nearly whitish, lasting for a long time in the 

 state of bud (buds seen much swelled in the month of January, and in 

 March scarcely fully open) ; standard reflexed ; wings straight ; keel 

 incurved, obtuse, half as long as the standard and wings. Sporadic, in 

 primitive forests throughout the district ; in Sobato de Bumba at 

 about 2000 ft. of elevation ; fl. March 1855 ; in Sobato de Quilombo 

 and Mussengue ; fl. April 1856 and May 1855. No. 1875. A widely 

 climbing shrub with whitish red-striate flowers ; in the dense primitive 

 forests of Menha Lula, Sobato de Mussengue ; flower-bud June 1856. 

 No. 18756. 



Cazengo. — An erect shrub, 6 ft. high, resembling a Cassia in habit, 

 very elegant ; leaflets alternate, bright-green above, paler beneath ; 

 flowers orange-red when in bud, in the expanded state yellowish, at 

 length almost whitish ; fruit in a manner samaroid, oblong, 3f in. long 

 by If in. broad. In secondary thickets at the skirts of woods, between 

 Cambondo and Dalatanda, sparingly ; scantily in fl. and a unique fr. r 

 June 1855. No. 1876. 



4. A. nitidulum 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 159 (1891). 

 Dalbergia nitidula Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 235. 



Ambaca. — An extensive tree, 25 to 35 ft. high ; trunk 1 to 2 ft. in 

 diam. ; crown depressed-dilated ; brauchlets at the time of full flower- 

 ing quite leafless ; flowers white or whitish-red. Calyx-teeth one-third 

 of the length of the calyx ; the upper teeth deltoid, broader and co- 

 hering higher than the others ; the three lower ones narrower, nearly 

 equal in length ; standard deeply obcordate, exappendiculate, as long 

 as the wings ; keel shorter than the wings ; all five petals with a rather 

 long claw ; stamens divided into two equal phalanges ; anthers 

 uniform, subversatile, seated in a peltate manner on the filaments ; 

 ovary with a long stipes, sub-falcate, hairy ; style incurved, glabrous ; 

 stigma rather small, terminal. Sporadic, in open sandy forests between 

 Zamba and the river Lutete ; fl. 7 June 1857. No. 1885. 



5. A. Bakeri 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 159 (1891). 

 Dalbergia Bakeri Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 235. 



Golungo Alto. — A handsome stout much-branched evergreen shrub, 

 climbing far and widely ; flowers white ; ovary long-stipitate, glabrous ; 

 ovules few. Sparingly in the primitive forests near the stream 

 Delamboa, also in the Mata Grande de Queta in one spot only ; fl. Jan. 

 1856. No. 1882. 



6. A. macrospermum O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 159(1891). 

 Dalbergia macrosperma Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 235. 

 Golungo Alto. — An ample robust shrub, climbing to a great 



height ; flowers whitish ; seed very large in proportion to |the pod. 

 Frequent in the elevated primitive forests of Alto Queta : fl. Jan. 1856, 

 fr. May 1855. No. 1881. 



The following No. is represented by flowering branches without 

 leaves; it seems best mentioned under Amerimnon: — 



Huilla. — A small stunted tree of a man's height, apparently 

 mutilated by fire, with tortuous branches and branchlets, leafless at 

 the time of gathering ; flowers whitish-yellow ; calyx bibracteolate at 



