575 
sum crassinseulo - Aliforme fuseum triplex, Flores fenuinei 
sessiles, ‚Perigonit exterioris partes 3?, liberae, ovales, ob- 
(nsae , apice irregulariter dentatäae, ‚glabrae, navienlares, bre- 
ves, germine ‚paullo. longiores, deciduze, hyalinse, albidae. 
Perigonü interioris partes 3 illis multo longiores, versus ba- 
sim liberae, superne in tubum jongum. apice leviter. trilobum 
comnatae, lineares, oblusae, intus medio pilis longis, apice 
pilis hrevioribus obsitae et infra apicem glandnla lineari fusoa 
' instenelap, subspongiosae, persistenies et capsulam inelnden- 
tes, albidae, Germen 3-coceum. Stylus longissimus Alifor- 
mis, äpiee in sligmata 3 breviuscula Aliformia simplicis divi- 
sus; appendieilus "nullis. : Semina ovata; psende-pilis den- 
sissime obteeta,, fusea. ‚Pili bractearum perigoniorumgue fili- 
formes, acnti, inins Iaeves. 
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2. M, pubescens Körnicke, 
Bracteis "involuerantibus quam flores parum brevioribus; 
floris feminei perigonio exteriore interins subaequante. 2. 
Eriocanlon pubesceus Lamarek, Eneych. 3, 276. [62 
frustalam elassie.). Kih, En. 8, 569. Steud. Sp. 11, 272. 
Insela Madagascar leg. Commerson (Ab. Lamarek - 
Roeper.). , 
Folia_cespitosa, ereeta, ensiformia, plane, wtrinque vil- 
losa vei pubescentia, hasi pilis argenteis sericeis eineta, 7— 
8 pollices longa, 5 — 6 lineas lata.. ‚ Pednnoulus elongatus, 
Mlis patentibus longiuseulis basi bulbosis vestitus, demum, cal- 
vescens, 10- costatus, uon tortus, foliis longior (rustulum 
suppetens 121/,- -pollivarr). Vagina breyis, villosa. Oapitu- 
Inm semiglobosum,. summitate plauum et ‚albo - villosum, 6 
lineas Iatum. ‚Brasteae, involnerantes Iato - -oyalae, acutar, me- 
dine obtusae, ceterum glahrae, rigidae, stramineo-favesgen- 
tes, Horibus paullo breviores, exteriores gradatim ıninores. 
