952 . CXXII, EUPHORBIACEX (PRAIN). | Plukenetia. 
diffusely branched, closely and persistently rusty-scabridulous. Leaves 
subsessile, firmly membranous, purplish, wide-ovate, acute, base rounded, 
wargin rather closely and acutely serrate except at the entire base, 
1}-1} in. long, 3-1} in. wide, shortly hispidulous on the nerves on both 
surfaces, otherwise glabrous, very dark-green and white-punctate above, 
paler not punctate beneath ; petiole rusty-scabridulous, ',-3’5 in. long; 
stipules linear, minute. Racemes simple, spike-like, terminal, 1-2 in. 
long ; male flowers rather few, females solitary, subbasal ; bracts narrow- 
lanceolate ; pedicels in both sexes solitary, jointed above the base. Male: 
Calyx oblong, glabrous, valvately 4-lobed ; lobes lanceolate. Stamens 
about 12; filaments very short; anthers subglobose, cells adnate to the 
connective throughout. Female: Calyx glabrous, 4-lobed, lobes ovate, 
acute, imbricate. Disk 0. Ovary densely strigose; styles about as long 
as the ovary, with 4 oblong cruciformly spreading finely papillose 
stigmas. Capsule (only seen young) 4-coccous; cocci horned. Seed 
not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguella; Ganguella, on the Cubango River at 
Princeza Amelia, 5000 ft., Gossweiler, 2540 ! 
73. DALECHAMPIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 330. 
Flowers monecious, apetalous. Disk 0. Male: Calyx globose, 
closed in bud, splitting into 4-6 valvate lobes. Stamens usually 20-30 ; 
filaments connate below in a column, inserted on the convex receptacle ; 
anthers narrow-oblong, 2-celled; anther-cells opening longitudinally. 
Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Sepals 5-12, in flower denticulate ; n 
fruit accrescent, indurated, pinnatifid. Ovary usually 3-celled, casually 
4-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell; styles connate in a stout rather 
thickened column, often hollow upwards; stigma terminal, entire or 
faintly lobed. Capsule breaking up into 3 (less often 4) 2-valved cocci ; 
valves thinly woody. Seeds globose or subglobose, without a caruncle ; 
albumen fteshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Herbs or shrubs with usually 
twining stems. Leaves alternate, petioled in the African species, pal- 
mately nerved from the base, entire or deeply 3-lobed. Flowers 10 
dense axillary peduncled heads, subtended by a pair of large similar 7 
slightly dissimilar leafy entire or lobed membranous usually coloure 
bracts. Male flowers central and terminal in the heads subtended by 
smaller bracts and sometimes mixed with fleshy processes representing 
sterile flowers; female flowers lateral and basal also with an involucel 
of smaller bracts. 
Species about 60, in all warm regions but mostly in Tropical America. 
Leaves and ripe capsules nearly or quite glabrous. 
Leaves membranous, all simple or with simple and 
3-lobed leaves on the same stem, when lobed the. 
lobes oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acuminate; : : 
stipules long linear-subulate : , j . 1. D. ipomeefolia. 
-. firm, always deeply ae rie Debio 
oblong, obtuse or minutely cuspidate; stipules : ys 
Syitetanprilar, slightly shiicie a Ca Qe Diitildebrondtts 
