Bauhhiia] xliv. leguminos^e. 297 



" Mulolo." Abundant, first near Calumguembo, in Zenza do Golungo, 

 and even more frequent throughout the districts of Golungo Alto and 

 Cazengo to Ambaca, where it begins to become scarce. Fl. Sept. to 

 May. Calungula ; fl. Sept. 1857. No. 546 bis. A small leafy tree, 

 with elongate-patent branches aud white flowers. In moist places 

 near stagnant pools, very rare ; seeds July 1854. Coll. Carp. 487. 



Zenza do Golungo. — Legumes indehiscent, compact and corky- 

 spongy inside, transversely many (80 to 100)-loculate ; seeds 80 to 

 100. Native name " Mulolo." Fr. Sept. 1857. Coll. Carp. 486. 



Golungo Alto. — A tree, 9 to 15 ft. high, rarely as much as 20 ft., of 

 stately appearance in primitive forests ; trunk 4 to 10, rarely attaining 

 18 in. diam. at the base, nearly always more or less obliquely twisted ; 

 branches divaricate-tortuous ; leaves bi-lobed, coriaceous ; flowers 

 whitish, or from whitish verging on rose-colour ; calyx campanulate, 

 limb 5-cleft ; petals 5, unguiculate, inserted on the calyx ; limb ovate- 

 subrotund, crenate and crisp on the margin, imbricate in aestivation, 

 purplish-white, hardly ever fully expanded, fugacious; stamens 10, 

 inserted with the petals, all fertile ; anthers white, incumbent, 2-celled, 

 oblong, dehiscing longitudinally ; style straight, thick, almost sub- 

 clavate, stigmatose at the apex ; legume dry, woody, indehiscent, 

 8 to 10 in. long, 1 to 1£ in. broad, very hard, usually tortuous and 

 shapeless. Abundant throughout the district, in the drier thickets 

 and on dry and sandy slopes, almost always in company with 

 " Molungo " (Erythrina suberifera Welw. Herb. Nos. 2229, 2230), and 

 sometimes with tall species of Pennisetum ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854 ; in 

 Sobato de Mussengue, near Menhalula, fl. and fr. 21 May 1855. The 

 tree contains much tannin, but is in this respect much inferior to 

 Albizzia coriaria Welw. Herb. 1762 to 1765 ; the bark and leaves are 

 crushed and applied to wounds and ulcers. Native names " Mulolo " 

 or " Musacamia." No. 547. 



Pungo Andongo. — A tree, 6 to 12 ft. high, with astringent bark ; 

 flowers whitish ; pods many-celled. Occasional in the wooded 

 thickets of the fortress, in the direction of Cazella, etc. ; fl. Dec. 1856. 

 No. 548. 



Huilla. — A tree, 7 to 10 ft., with a dense crown, but not giving 

 much shade. In woods near Eme, common ; fr. April 1860. No. 549. 



The bark of Mulolo is generally employed as an astringent decoction 

 in cases of intermittent fever and eruptions, and to cleanse ulcers, as 

 in this last case Welwitsch could affirm by personal experience ; the 

 same bark also contains a colouring matter, the colour of canella 

 (see Welwitsch, Synopse, p. 32, n. 77). 



6. B. garipensis E. Mey. Comment. PL Afr. Austr. i. p. 162 

 (1836); Oliv., l.c, p. 291. 



Mossamedes. — A pretty nearly arborescent shrub, 5 to 8 ft. high, 

 with approximated virgate branchlets 1 to 3 ft. long ; bark persistently 

 whitish-ashy, f arinaceous-pruinose ; leaves glaucous, thinly coriaceous, 

 occasionally 1\ in. broad and f in. long, thus larger than in the type 

 of the species ; flowers yellowish with purple veins ; petals scarcely 

 twice the calyx. Legumes subglabrous or somewhat glandular, dehis- 

 cent. In tall thickets along the banks of the river Maiombo, near 

 Pomangala and below Cazimba, also near Quitibe de Baixo ; fl. and 

 nearly ripe fr. Oct. 1859. No. 1708. A shrub, the numerous stems 

 and branches virgate-sarmentose ; leaves obcordate ; flowers cinereous 

 — purplish — striate ; legumes hatchet-shaped, 2-3-seeded. Abundant 

 between Pomangala and Quitibe de Baixo ; fl. and fr. 14 Oct. 1859. 

 Coll. Carp. 469. 



