954 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (prain). [Dalechampia. 



3. D. Chevalieri, Beille in Bull. Soc. BoU France, Ivii. Mem. 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, 3-4 J in. long, 

 1 J-2 J in. broad, firmly membranous, 5-7-nerved from the base, pubescent 

 on the nerves on both surfaces; petiole 1-li in. long, pubescent ; stipules 

 triangular, finely glandular-toothed, J in, long, pubescent 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 8-fid apex, their margins 

 finely glandular-toothed, l|-2 in. long, 1-1 J in. wide; peduncles ;') in. 

 long, with a pair of bracts like the stipules below the middle. Stylar 

 column cylindric, truncate. Cocci rather closely beset with short stiff 

 setae. Seed spherical, not yet ripe. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Loni, 670-1000 ft., Ledermann, 6488 ! 

 Worth Central. Dar Banda : Tomi Valley, Chevalier, 5381 ! 



4. D. scandens, Linn. Sp. PI. 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, 1^-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 o-lobed, 

 margin elsewhere serrate, green or yellow, ^-| in. long, J-| 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. 49(1 ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 1244. ^ 



Var. parvifoUa, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1245. Leaves with rather 

 nnrrow-obloiig, acute or acuminate lobes, 1^-3 in. long, 1-2^ in. broad; outer 

 involucral bracts rather firm, usually greenish, ^-i in. lon<r and broad. 

 — D. parvifolia. Lam. Encycl. ii. 258. D. senegalensis^ A. .Juss. ex Webb in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 174; Schmidt, Fl. Cap. Yerd. 305. D. scandens, mevn \n Cx\t. Air. 

 PI. VVehv. i. 985; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb, lioiss. 2me ser. i. 48, 

 and in Etudes Fl. lias- et Moyen-Congo, i. 278, and ii. 286; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. 

 Fl. Congol. 499, hardly of Linn. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : Dakar, Adanson I Thiehaut, 149 ! Robert .' 

 Dagana, Leprieur ! Ferrottet, 740! Richard-Tol, Lelievre I 



ITortli Central. Kanem : Xgouri ; Mondo, Chevalier, 10211! 



Ziower Guinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool ; between Leopoldville and 

 Mombasi, Gillet, 2577. Angola : Loanda, Welwitsch, 383 ! Gossweiler, 212 ! 339 ! 

 Sibongo, Welwitsch, 385 ! Ambriz, Welwitsch, 387 ! Mossamedes, Pearson, 2838 ! 



Also in the Cape Verde Islands. 



Tar. cordofana, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1245. Leaves with usually 

 rather wide-oblong, acute or occasionally obtuse lobes, 2-5 in. long, 2^-5 in. broad; 

 outer involucral bracts membranous, yellowish or yellow, -^-f in. long and broad. — 

 Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 240, "in Ann, Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 184, and iu Bull. 



