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traneata, exsiccatione uon compressa, pulveraceo - pubescentia 
et nigro-nivea, 13/,— 21, Tineas late. Bracteae involueran- 
tes Into-ovatae, acntae, pulveraceo-pnbescentes, rigidar, 
‚ erassiusculae, olivaceo-nigrescentes, eapitulo multo breviores, 
Bravteae flores stipantes Jate rhombeo- cuneatae; acuminatae, 
versus apicem pulveraceo- et dense albido-pubescentes, oli-. 
vaceo-nigrescenies, rigidae, arete imbrieatae, foribus paullo 
longiores eosque oceuliantes. . Rereptäculum pilosulum. Flo- 
res sessiles. Mascali: Perigonii exterioris partes ® liberae, 
oblongae, emarginato- obtusissimae, earinatae, alatae, apice 
carinaque superiore viliatae, juniores nigrescentes demum sor- 
dide Navescentes, Perigoni interioris 'partes in tuhbum Faretun 
trilobum eonuatae, lobis minimis pilosis intus glandula fusea 
instrueiis, Stamina 6, 3. lobis opposita longiora; - autheris 
rotundis, »igris. Fu centro pistilli effeti rndimentum glandı- 
losum fuseum triplex. Flores feninei: Perigoniorum partes 
sub germine appröximatae; exterioris partes ® liberae, lan- 
ceolatae, obtusae vel aentae, profunde naviculari -carinaine, 
alatae, ala lata spongiosa superne eilinta, olivaceo-nigreseen- 
tes, Perigonü interioris partes 3 ilis multo minores, liberat, 
lineares, intus longe pilosae, eglandulosae, albidae. Germen 
irieoeeum, Stylus -brevis, Stigmata 3 filiformia, Semina 
oblonga, eostulis membranaceis hyalinis longitadinalibus in- 
„structa, fusen, Pili bractearum perigoniorumgune brevissimi, 
fore punetiformes, obtusi, eburnei, intus granulosi. 
98. Er. australe R.Br.- 
Folis pilosiusculis; foribus (rimeris, perigonü exterio- 
vis partibus 8, . 
Eriocaulon australe Ru Br. Prodr, 254. (Non vidi,) Ki. 
En. 3, 569, Steudel Synops. 2, 273. 
Nova Hollandia: Portus Jacksonli Ice. BR. Brown (hide 
RB. Brown.). j 
