1'ounatea] xliv. leguminos^e. 287 



stipitate, many-seeded ; sarcocarp thick, resinous-fleshy ; seeds excen- 

 trically umbilicate, intercepted with apparently spongy constrictions. 

 Rather rare in open woods at the base of the gigantic rocks of the 

 fortress, near Luxillo, in young fr. middle of Dec. 1856. Native name 

 " Mucombe." No. 587. Tree 10 to 15 ft. high ; leaves pinnate, glau- 

 isscent. In wooded places by the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda ; fr. 

 April 1857. Coll. Carp. 482. 



Huilla.— Ripe seeds at Monino in Deo. 1859. No. 587b. A small 

 tree of 7 to 10 ft. or perhaps a young tree, with loose and rambling 

 branches, quite simulating the habit of a Cassia ; flowers whitish. In 

 open sandy woods mixed with species of Protea, Eugenia, and Com- 

 bretacese, between Lopollo and Monino, at an elevation of 5000 feet ; 

 in. fl. Nov. 1859 and in the same spot in young fr. Feb. 1860, fr. May 

 1860. A form with young parts, etc., clothed with a soft ferruginous 

 tomentum. No. 586. 



2. Sub-order C^salpinie^:. 



61. PELTOPHORUM Vogel; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 565. 

 1. P. africanum Sond. in Linnsea xxiii. p. 35 (1850); Oliv. II 



Trop. Afr. ii. p. 260. 



Brasilettia africana O. Kuntze, 'Rev. Gen. PI. i. p. 164 (1891). 



Huilla.— A handsome tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, or, in the secondary 

 woods, 10 to 12 ft. high, with the habit of Mimoseae ; trunk with 

 Tambling and spreading branches, and with a broad crown ; leaves 

 without spines ; flowers saffron-yellow, handsome ; pedicels with two 

 caducous bracts at the base ; style curved inwards ; stigma broadly 

 peltate, sub-lobed ; pod foliaceous, indehiscent, usually 2-seeded, much 

 compressed, lanceolate on both sides, but especially along the seed- 

 bearing suture surrounded by an acute wing. Frequent in nearly all 

 the woods of the plateau of Huilla, along the banks of rivers ; Lopollo : 

 fl. and young fr. Oct. 1859, in ripe f r. with seeds beginning of May 

 1860. No. 603. A tree of 20 to 25 ft., especially recommended for 

 cultivation ; flowers paniculate. Abundant, and in company with 

 species of Protea and Combretacese ; fl. from Oct. to Jan. Lopollo, 

 Jan. 1860 and 24 May 1860 ; fr. Coll. Carp. 41. 



Bumbo. — A tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, with rather lax crown and 

 spreading branches ; flowers saffron yellow. Common in the midst 

 of the mountains of Serra da Xella ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 603b. 



Mossambdes. — A tree, 20 ft. high, at times taller ; crown handsome, 

 ovoid-hemispherical, densely frondose ; leaves bipinnate ; pods race- 

 mose, shortly pedicellate, narrowly elliptical, narrowed at both ends, 

 turning woody, 1- or rarely 2-seeded. In thickets of Tamarix orien- 

 talis Forsk. (Welw. No. 1086), at the sides of the river Bero, near the 

 copper mine ; fr. July 1859. No. 604. 



62. MEZONEURUM Desf. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PL i. p. 565. 

 1. M. angolense Welw. ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 261 ; 



Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 150. 



Golungo Alto. — A robust, very prickly shrub, decumbent or 

 scandent ; sarmentose branches 10 to 15 ft. long ; flowers handsome, 

 yellow or yellow-orange. In stony thickets at the margins of forests, 

 between Sange and Camilungo, by the Ambaca road ; fl. Feb. 1855, 

 ripe fr. Oct. 1855. No. 607. Climbing far and widely ; fr. Oct. 1855, 

 and sparingly in July 1856. Native name " Saje." Coll. Carp. 131. 



