306 xliv. LEGUMiNOS.fi. [Gigalobium 



Trans. Linn. Soe. xxx. p. 364; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 173 (1884). 

 Puscetha abyssinica 0. Kuntze, I.e. 



Golungo Alto.— A tree of 15 ft. ; trunk nearly 1 ft. in diam. at 

 the base. In the elevated forests of the mountain Cungulungulo ; 

 only Wo trees seen, fl. end of Nov. 1855 ; young fr. end of Feb. 1856. 

 Local name "Musoco." No. 1781. A tree in the primitive forests 

 of the mountain Cungulungulo (Montalegre), at the top, 2 Feb. 1855 ; 

 seeds scattered on the ground. Coll. Carp. 521. A small tree of 

 8 to 10 ft. ; head very widely spread and elegant ; pods flattened ; 

 layers separating from the replum ; seeds with a fibrous-cartilaginous 

 wing-shaped membrane. Bark officinal. Called " Mucoso." In wooded 

 thickets near Sange, abundant ; fr. August 1856, and June and August 

 1857. Coll. Caep. 506. A handsome tree of middle height, with the 

 habit of the frondose acacias. In mountainous situations between 

 the rivers Zenza and Lombixi ; fr. July. Native name " Mussoxi." 

 Coll. Caep. 507. 



Huilla. — A handsome aDd pretty tree, 20 to 35 ft. high, or some- 

 times scarcely 10 ft., broadly leafy ; flowers yellow, scented. Abundant 

 in the more open woods between Lopollo and Catumba ; fl. Dec. 1859. 

 Called "Musoso." No. 1782. A small tree, about 15 ft. high, the 

 matrix of several plants of Loranthus (cf . Welw. No. 4890). In Mata de 

 Monino in very mixed open woods, in company with species of Proiea, 

 Eugenia, Combretaceae, etc. ; fl. Nov. and Dec. 1859, fr. April 1860. 

 No. 17826. A widely frondose tree, 25 to 30 ft. high, with spicate- 

 racemose yellow flowers. In forests near Lopollo ; fr. Dec. 1859. 

 Coll. Caep. 508. 



Yar. microphylla Oliv., I.e., p. 328. 



Golungo Alto. — A little tree, 8 ft. high. In secondary woods 

 with tall bushes, between Sange and Ponte de Felix Simoes ; fl. Febr. 

 and March, fr. July and beginning of August 1855. No. 1780. 



This species is probably the plant referred to by "Welwitsch, Synopse, 

 p. 33, n. 82, as a species of Acacia, and described as a small tree and 

 very frequent in stony situations in Golungo Alto ; the bark is called 

 " Casca de Musoso," and is employed by the negro doctors as a decoc- 

 tion in cases of pains in the chest and especially in chronic coughs. 



82. PIPTADENIA Benth. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 589. 

 1. P. africana Hook. f. ex Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 330 

 (1849) ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Air. ii. p. 328 ; Benth. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxx. p. 370 (1875); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 173 (1884). 



Golungo Alto. — A tree 20 to 35 ft. high (in secondary woods 

 15 to 25 ft. high), patently and sparingly branched ; branches elongated ; 

 wood excellent ; glands of the petiole ; pedicels as long as the calyx ; 

 flowers glabrous, arranged in paniculate crowded spikes of about 3 in. 

 in length, yellowish-green ; calyx cupola-shaped, repand-dentate at 

 the mouth with 5 distinct teeth ; anther-gland large, sub-quadrate, 

 fugacious ; ovary substipitate, glabrous ; ovules about 10 to 15 ; legume 

 j to 1 ft. long, an inch broad, compressed, bivalved ; valves cohering 

 by one edge after the fall of the seeds ; seeds surrounded by a broad 

 membranous wing. Frequent in mountainous forests throughout the 

 district, especially between Sange and Undelle, etc.; fr. June 1855, 

 fl. Jan. 1856 ; near Bango Aquitamba, Jan. 1855 ; Fundo de Undelle at 

 the end of May 1856. Native name " Pao Musence " or " Muzungo " 

 or " Muneunza." No. 1774. In the dense primitive forests of the 



