Dalhousiea] xliv. leguminos*. 285 



D. bracteosa Graham, to which species it has been referred by Baker 

 and others : it however differs by the more ovate and acuminate shape 

 of the leaves, etc. 



56. BAPHIA Afzel. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 553. 

 1. B. angolensis Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 249 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 149 (1884). 



Golungo Alto. — A tree 15 to 20 ft. in the elevated primitive 

 forests, or in the secondary woods a shrub of 6 to 10 ft. ; branches 

 spreading ; branchlets very slender, always more or less nodding ; bark 

 grey, reticulately veined ; leaves rigidly and dryly but thinly coria- 

 ceous like parchment, glossy above, a little paler and rather shining 

 beneath ; petiole turgid, cylindrical, transversely wrinkled, shallowly 

 furrowed above ; flowers on slender axillary peduncles arising from the 

 young shoots ; calyx brilliantly white-corolline, spathaceous, supported 

 at the base by two spreading bracteoles, at length cleft down the front 

 and reclining with induplicate margins when the standard becomes 

 erect ; standard ample, orbicular, emarginate at the apex, erect, 

 not unguiculate, brilliantly white, but ornamented with an orange 

 spot in the middle and towards the base ; wings patent, obliquely 

 obovate, whitish ; keel boat-shaped ; seeds ellipsoidal, compressed, half 

 an inch long. In the elevated mountainous forests of Sobato de 

 Bumba, Queta, and Mussengue, not common ; fl. Nov. 1855 and March 

 1856 ; behind Rodrigo's house, above the waterfall ; fr. Feb. 1856. 

 No. 601. Sange ; fr. June 1856. Coll. Carp. 450. 



57. GIGANTHEMUM Welw. Apont. p. 585, n. 14 (1859). 

 Gamoensia Welw. (1865) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 557. 



1. G. seandens Welw. Apont. p. 585, n. 14. 



Gamoensia maxima Welw. ex Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 

 p. 301, t. 36 (1865); Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 252; 

 Monteiro, Angola, i. p. 177, t. 6 (1875). 



Goltjngo Alto. — A robust shrub, climbing to a great height and 

 then hanging down its graceful branches, constituting the highest 

 ornament amongst the climbing shrubs of this region ; flowers very 

 large, the largest among Angolan Leguminosse, emitting a peculiar 

 odour, almost spermatic ; calyx-tube long, cleft at the apex in a 

 bilabiate manner ; upper lip shortly bifid, with oblique ovate obtuse 

 diverging teeth ; lower lip deeply trifid, with equal lanceolate teeth 

 shortly acuminate at the apex ; petals 5, white, marcescent, inserted on 

 the calyx-tube, very wavy at the margin, crisply fringed ; fringe of 

 a fine orange colour ; standard broadly spathulate, radiately striate, 

 channelled at the claw, at the time of flowering longitudinally folded ; 

 the other four petals similar, narrowly spathulate and a quarter the 

 width, long-clawed, with an orange-coloured fringe ; stamens marces- 

 cent, monadelphous below, free for a long distance ; anthers linear, 

 attached at the middle of the back, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing, 

 exserted ; ovary densely fuscous-tomentose, long-stipitate ; style very 

 long, incurved, whitish-green ; stigma capitate, deep-green, viscid, 

 glossy ; pod lanceolate-spathulate, compressed, subcoriaceous, densely 

 ferruginous-tomentose. broader near the apiculate apex, 6 to 7 in. long, 

 1 to lj in. broad ; seeds 2 to 5, oblong, compressed, brown, shining, 

 about an inch long. At the margins of forests, climbing high upon the 

 neighbouring trees, between Sange and Cambondo ; fl. andfr. Dec. 1854. 



