282 xliv. leguminos^e. [Lonchocarpw 



Huilla — A stout shrub, perhaps the upgrowth from the stump of 

 a mutilated or burnt tree. At Ferrao da Sola ; in young fr., without 

 either leaves or flowers, in April 1860. No. 1879. Leafy branches 

 collected from a neighbouring shrub of the same habit and ramifica- 

 tion, but scarcely seeming to belong here ; leaves usually trifoliolate, 

 more rarely pinnate and bijugate ; branchlets purplish, longitudinally 

 sulcate. At Ferrao da Sola, in leaf, without either fl. or fr., in April 

 1860. No. 18796. 



3. L. pallesoens Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 242. 



Zenza do Golungo — A tree, 25 to 40 ft. high or more, with the 

 habit of an Ash, with an interrupted crown ; trunk 8 to 24 in. in 

 diam. ; branches patent ; leaves impari-pinnate, deciduous at the time- 

 of flowering : leaflets herbaceous ; flowers of a sordid-violet colour. 

 Abundant, but apparently limited to this region, along the sides of 

 the stream Calucala, in rocky places ; fl. and fr. as well as specimens 

 in leaf Sept. 1857. No. 1847. 



There is some doubt whether the specimens bearing foliage belong 

 to the same species, but they apparently do so. This is probably the 

 plant from the district of Zenza do Golungo, referred to under the 

 name of "Caseque" by Welwitsch, Synopse, p. 9, n. 16 (1862), and it 

 bears a superficial resemblance to Platysepalum violaceum "Welw. Herb- 

 No. 1838. 



54. DEGUELIA Aubl. Hist. PI. Guian. p. 750, t. 300 (1775). 

 Derris Lour. (1790); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 549. 



1. D.? glateata Taub. in Bot. Centralbl. xlvii. p. 387 (1891). 

 Derris ? glabrata Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 244.. 



Pterocarpus glabratus O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 203 (1891). 



Golungo Alto. — An erect shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, perhaps sub- 

 sequently scandent ; leaves impari-pinnate ; leaflets 5 to 7, opposite,, 

 very obtuse or emarginate, shortly pubescent not tomentose beneath ; 

 flowers whitish, £ in. long (in the dry state), crowded ; calyx loosely 

 tomentose. In moist thickets near Undelle ; fl. March 1855. No. 1888. 



2. D. lucida Taub. in Bot. Centralbl. xlvii. p. 387 (1891). 

 Derris lucida Welw. ex Baker, I.e., p. 245. Pterocarpus lucidus 



O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i. p. 203 (1891). 



Golungo Alto. — A stout evergreen shrub climbing up to 30 ft. 

 and higher ; leaflets opposite, hard-coriaceous, remarkably glossy above, 

 without stipellaB ; bracts small, lanceolate, as also the two very small 

 bracteoles ciliate at the base and very caducous ; calyx 5-dentate ; 

 the upper teeth connate, higher than the lower ; standard greenish- 

 white, ovate, with a channelled claw, exappendiculate ; wings white, 

 narrowly oblong, rather longer than the standard, with an obtuse 

 auricle ; keel whitish-purple or pale-rose, a little curved, rather obtuse, 

 the petals cohering at the top of the back ; vexillary stamen quite 

 free ; ovary sessile, compressed, rather hairy, 3-5-ovuled ; style purple, 

 compressed, rather broad, rather hairy, naked and almost subulate a 

 little below the small stigma ; disc surrounding the ovary, cupuliform r 

 10-crenate, adnate to the staminal sheath for half its own height, free 

 above ; pod (immature) broadly elliptical oval or oblong, 2£ to 2J in. 

 long by f to 1J in. broad, girt with a short wing on each suture. 

 Sporadic, in the primitive forests of Sobato de Quilongo-Quiacatubia, 

 at an elevation of 2400 ft. ; ft. and young fr. July 1856. No. 1877- 

 A robust shrub, climbing to a great height ; stem 3 to 4 in. in diam. 



