476 MISS L. S. GIBBS ON THE 
apice parum inerassatis, glabris, basi autem dense lanata ; pedun- 
culis pluribus, tenuibus, eylindricis, 7-eostatis, tortis, glabris, 
erectis, folia multoties excedentibus, vaginis quam foliis longi- 
oribus, apice bifidis et supra medium unilateraliter fissis, glabris; 
capitulis depresso-globosis, bisexualibus, albido-brunneis; brac- 
teis involueralibus appressis, obovato-oblongis, apice rotundatis 
braeteis fertilibus obovato-spathulatis, valde concavis, breviter 
acutis, dorso sub apice albo-barbatis ; receptaculo piloso ; floribus 
fommineis subsessilibus, sepalis 3, subclavatis, 2 oppositis sca- 
phoideis, tertio paullo breviore et complanato, dorso supra 
medium albo barbatis; petalis 3, subequalibus, lineari-spathu- 
latis, sub apice glanduligeris, dorso supra medium barbatis, 
ovario-trigono, stylo alte trifido ; tl. masculis breviter pedicellatis, 
sepalis 3, liberis, inzequalibus, lineari-subulatis ad oblongo-spathu- 
latis, dorso sub apice barbatis; petalis valde inzqualibus, uno 
parvo, oblongo, dense barbato, alteris pæne obsoletis, staminibus 6, 
antheris atris. 
Plants 15-20 em. high. Leaves 2-3 em. long, about 2 mm. 
broad just above the sheathing base; peduncle 15-20 em. long, 
less than 1 mm. diameter, solid in section, sheaths about 3:5 em. 
long; heads about 5 em. diameter; involucral bracts closely 
appressed to the base of the head, barely 3 mm. long and 1:5 mm. 
broad, fertile bracts slightly shorter; female flowers on the 
outside of the head, sepals 2 mm. long, petals about 2 mm. long 
and 5 mm. broad, the odd one rather longer and broader, style 
branched for about $ its length; male flower—sepals about 
15 mm. long, 3 to 5 mm. broad, stipes between sepals and 
petals barely 1 mm. long, two of the petals reduced to incon- 
spieuous blunt outgrowths behind two alternate stamens, the 
third about half the length of the stamen ; filaments of stamens 
about 1 mm. long. 
Hab. Matopo Hills, bog near the “ View." 
Near the South Tropical African Eriocaulon lacteum, but a 
smaller piant with narrower leaves and without the sharp points 
to the bracts. 
PÆPALANTHUS WaHLBERGII, Koern. 
Matopo Hills, bog near the “ View.” Fl. Sept. 86. 
Distrib. Nigeria, German East Africa, Angola, Transvaal. 
This is the first record for Rhodesia. 
