Cassia] xliv. leguminoSjE. 291 



2. C. angolensis Welw. ms., sp. n. 



Cassia (sp.), C. Mannii Oliv. affinis, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 272. 



A handsome deciduous tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, loosely and 

 patently branched ; branches and branchlets slender, terete, striate, 

 glabrescent and rather shining ; leaves (young) about 9 in. long, 

 10-13-jugate, glabrescent; leaflets pretty uniformly distributed 

 in pairs along the rachis at intervals of § to f in. from the base 

 of the petiole, oval, emarginate or retuse at the apex, obtuse at 

 the base, about 1£ by § in.; common petiole without glands; 

 petiolules y 1 ^- in. long or less ; racemes lateral and terminal ; 

 common peduncle short; axis of the inflorescence 1 to 1| in. long, 

 erect-patent, puberulous ; pedicels nearly glabrous, 2 to 3 in. long, 

 spreading ; bracts obsolete ; flowers showy, numerous, nearly 1 in. 

 long ; sepals oval, ^ in. long, submembranous ; petals deep golden- 

 yellow, large, veiny ; longer stamens nearly equalling the corolla, 

 with rather thickened |-sigmoidly curved and bent filaments and 

 large oval anthers ; ovary glabrous ; pods not seen. 



Cazengo. — Rather rare, in primitive woods near Cacula, in company 

 with two species of Trema ; fl. and young leaves June 1855. No. 1736- 



3. C. goratensis Fresen. in Flora 1839, p. 53 ; Oliv., I.e., p. 273 ; 

 Benth., I.e., p. 528 (1871). 



Bumbo. — A tall shrub. In forests near Bumbo ; fr. 15 Oct. 1859. 

 Coll. Caep. 71. A bushy shrub, almost leafless when in flower and 

 fruit. In stony thickets at the skirts of primitive woods, between 

 Bumbo and Bruco, at an elevation of 2400 ft. at the base of the 

 mountains of Serra da Xella ; fl. and f r. (and the leafy individuals 

 barren) Oct. 1859. No. 1727. 



Htjilla. — A small tree or a shrub ; flowers dull-yellow. In the 

 exposed stony parts of the open mixed woods near Mumpulla, in 

 company with species of Protea, at an elevation of about 4100 ft.; 

 fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 1728. A small tree, 6 to 10 ft. high, with a 

 loosely diffuse crown. In the more open sandy woods near Lopollo, in 

 company with Tounatea madagascariensis Taub., and with species of 

 Protea ; fl. and sparingly fr. Jan. and Feb. 1860. No. 1729. 



4. C. occidentalis L. Sp. PL edit. 1, p. 377 (1753); Oliv., I.e., 

 p. 274 ; Benth., I.e., p. 532 (1871) ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 152 (1884). 



Cassia (sp.), Welw. Apont. p. 575 under n. 175 (" Mudianhoca "). 



Ambkiz. — In waste places around Banga de Quisembo ; fl. and fr. 

 Nov. 1853. Called by the Portuguese " Fedegoso." No. 1723. 



Loanda. — Sometimes an annual herb, at other times woody and 

 biennial or triennial. Leaves 4- or rarely 5-jugate. Common about 

 habitations, at Quicuxe flowering in May 1854, and throughout the 

 district flowering and fruiting during nearly the whole year, 1854 and 

 Dec. 1858. Called by the negroes " Munhanoca." No. 1724. 



Golungo Alto. — Not uncommon in rather dry thickets and in the 

 vicinity of houses, near Sange in beds of Andropogon ; fl. and fr. June 

 1856. No. 1725. Called " Caffs' " by the negroes ; fr. Coll. Caep. 476. 



Island of St. Thomas.— Dec. 1 860 ; fr. Coll. Caep. 390. 



A decoction of the root is employed in Angola in cases of intermittent 

 fever after the manner of coffee-berries, and it was relished by Welwitsch 

 himself-; see also Monteiro, Angola, vol. ii. p. 249 (1875). 



