954 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (PRAIN). [Dalechampia. 
3. D. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lvii. Mém. viii. 
127. A slender twiner; stems rather closely pubescent. Leaves dis- 
tinctly petioled, ovate-triangular, apex rather abruptly apiculate, base 
cordate or subentire, margin finely denticulate, not lobed, 3-43 in. long, 
13-2} in. broad, firmly membranous, 5-7-nerved from the base, pubescent 
on the nerves on both surfaces; petiole 1-13 in. long, pubescent ; stipules 
triangular, finely glandular-toothed, 4 in. long, pubesgent on both sur- 
faces. Heads axillary, long-peduncled ; involucral bracts pale yellow, 
white-veined, ovate, acute, dissimilar, one with a cordate base and an 
entire apex, one with a rounded base and a 3-fid apex, their margins 
finely glandular-toothed, 14-2 in. long, 1-14 in. wide; peduncles 3 in. 
long, with a pair of bracts like the stipules below the middle. Stylar 
column cylindric, truncate. Cocci rather closely beset with short stiff 
Setze. Seed spherical, not yet ripe. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Lom, 670-1000 ft., Zedermann, 6488 ! 
North Central. Dar Banda: Tomi Valley, Chevalier, 5381! 
4. D. scandens, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1054, A slender twiner ; 
stems pubescent. Leaves distinctly petioled, deeply 3-5-partite, base 
deep cordate, lobes acute or shortly acuminate, rarely obtuse, their 
margins entire or toothed or the outer sometimes shortly lobed near the 
base, 14-5 in. long, 1-5 in. broad, membranous, 5-7-nerved from the 
base, pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 1-3 in. long, pubescent; 
stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1 in. long. Heads axillary, long-peduncled ; 
Involucral bracts ovate, slightly cordate, deeply and acutely 3-lobed, 
margin elsewhere serrate, green or yellow, }—} in. long, }-} in. broad. 
Stylar column cylindric, truncate. Cocci brown, rather closely beset 
with more or less adpressed hairs. Seed spherical, grey with brown 
blotches.—Linn. Mant. Alt. 496; Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 0. 
1244, 
Var. parvifolia, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1245. Leaves with rather 
narrow-oblong, acute or acuminate lobes, 14-3 in. long, 1-2} in. broad; fois 
involucral bracts rather firm, usually greenish, 4-3 in. long and on 
—D. parvifolia, Lam. Encyel. ii. 258. D. senegalensis, A. Juss. ex Webb in Hook. 
Niger Fl. 174; Schmidt, FI. Cap. Verd. 305. D. scandens, Hiern in Cat. ap 
Pl, Welw. i. 985; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. 1. 48, 
and in Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 278, and ii. 286; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. 
Fl. Congol. 499, hardly of Linn. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: Dakar, Adanson! Thiebaut, 149! Robert! 
Dagana, Leprieur ! Perrottet, 740! Richard-Tol, Lelievre ! 
North Central. Kanem: Ngouri; Mondo, Chevalier, 10211! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool; between Leopoldville nore 
Mombasi, Gillet, 2577. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 383! Gossweiler, 212! —_ t 
Sibongo, Welwitsch, 385! Ambriz, Welwitsch, 387! Mossamedes, Pearson, 2838! 
Also in the Cape Verde Islands. ‘ ' 
Var. cordofana, Miill, Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1245. - Leaves with eater 
rather wide-oblong, acute or occasionally obtuse lobes, 2-5 in. long, 23-5 in- : set 
outer involucral bracts membranous, yellowish or yellow, $-} in. long and brow’: il 
Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 240, in Ann, Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 184, dnd ce 
