288 xliv. leguminoSjE. [Mezoneurum 



Ambaca. — A robust shrub ; sarmentose branches very long, running 

 along the ground, then ascending. By the high road, near Ambaca; 

 fr. Sept. 1856. No. 606&. 



Pungo Andongo. — An arborescent shrub, with long-sarmeutose 

 and spiny branches, and deep-yellow flowers. Rather rare, in the 

 rocky parts of the fortified district of Pungo Andongo ; fl. April 1857. 

 Native name "Sage." No. 606. 



2. M. Welwitschianum Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 261. 



Golungo Alto. — A widely climbing shrub ; branches and petioles 

 beset with bent-back prickles ; leaves abruptly bipinnate, glaucescent ; 

 flowers fragrant, like those of Robinia Pseudo Acacia L. ; calyx- tube 

 short, urceolate-cymbiform, that is, protracted on one side ; limb 

 5-partite, deciduous ; lobes green outside, yellowish inside, in front 

 arched, at the base reddish, bright blood-red inside ; petals 5, pale- 

 yellow, blood-red-scarlet at the claws inside, the posterior one with 

 the margins folded forwards, and with two scarlet horns ; stamens 10, 

 decimate, all fertile ; filaments gradually subulate from a broad base, 

 densely woolly below the middle, nearly free ; ovary sessile, rather 

 compressed, bearded with white hairs, of a deep blood-red colour, 

 much inclined forwards, gradually tapering into the cylindrical red 

 style, yellow towards the apex ; stigma truncate, scarcely thicker 

 than the style, densely and delicately papillose. Rather rare, in the 

 bushy wooded slopes of Sobato de Mussengue, climbing on " MolaTu " 

 (Verncmia senegalensis Less.) ; fl. end of Oct. 1855. Native name 

 " Sage " or " Sasche," pronounced Zasha. The seeds are used in a 

 game called "Sasse." No. 608. 



Pungo Andongo. — A robust shrub, widely scandent, with oblique 

 long sarmentose branches. In rocky places in Barrancos da Pedra ; 

 ripe fr. March and April 1857. No. 609. Flowers yellow. Barrancos 

 de Songue ; fr. March and April 1857. Coll. Carp. 470. 



The following No. is perhaps a glabrate state or form of this 

 species : — 



Pungo Andongo. — A diffusely branched shrub of 4 ft., or perhaps 

 the fresh shoot of a mutilated tree. At the borders of the forest, 

 Mata de Mangue, between Pungo Andongo and Cadumba ; without 

 fl. or fr. Jan. 1857. No. 1808. 



63. CS1SALPINIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 565. 



1. C. pulcherrima Sw. Obs. Bot. p. 166 (1791); Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afr. ii. p. 262; Ficalho, PL TJteis, p. 151 (1884). 



Poinciana pulcherrima L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 380(1753). Welw. 

 Apont. p. 574 under n. 175, p. 585, n. 16 ; Welw. Synopse, p. 52 

 under n. 138 (1862). 



Sierra Leone. — Subspontaneous alongside crops in gardens, near 

 Freetown ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 595. 



Prince's Island.— Sept. 1853 ; fl. No. 596. 



Loanda. — Imbondeiro dosLobos ; fr. August and Sept. 1860. Coll. 

 Carp. 78. Everywhere cultivated in the villages of the negroes for its 

 medicinal virtues; seeds July 1854. Coll. Carp. 100. Subsponta- 

 neous in deserted gardens and around the villages of the negroes ; fl. 

 Jan. 1858 and May 1859. No. 597«. Fr. August 1854. Coll. Carp. 

 471. Spontaneous in thickets near Loanda, and cultivated in gardens ; 

 fr. Dec. 1858. Coll. Carp. 472. 



Golungo Alto. — Cultivated and occasionally almost spontaneous in 



