DALECHAMPIA (named in honour of James Dale champ, 1513-1588, a French physician, botanist, and philologist). Including Rhopalostylis (of Klotzsch). ORD. Euphorbiaceae. There are above sixty species in this genus, but very few of which are of any horticultural merit. The one described below (perhaps the only one in cultivation) is attractive on account of the brilliant rich carmine-rose colour of the bracts. It thrives well in a stove, and requires perfect drainage, and a mixture of loam, peat, and leaf mould, in equal parts, to which may be added a good portion of silver sand. Propagated by cuttings. DALECHAMPIA Roezliana (Roezl's).* fl. very fragrant; peduncles slender, thread-like, angular, 2in. to 3in. long, bearing at the top two small ovate bracts, placed at the base of two large, broadly egg-shaped, acuminate, denticulate, rosy-pink floral leaves; within these two are other smaller bracts, placed around and among the male and female flowers, some of them thick and club-shaped, and bearing at the top a fringe of short, yellow, waxy-looking threads, which give a singular appearance to its blossoms. l. 5in. to 9in. long, 1in. to 3in. wide at the broadest portion, very shortly stalked, sub-cordate, tapering towards the base, acuminate at the apex. Vera Cruz, 1867. Habit erect, branched, leafy. This species differs from the majority of its congeners in being erect, not climbing, and in its undivided leaves. (B. M. 5640.) There is a variety (alba) with white bracts.