576 CLXXL ERIOCAULLA. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Eriocaulon, 
INDIA; Huegel. N. Canara, Tinai Ghat, alt. 2000 ft., in streams and pools, 
Talbot. . Ylnerved 
Stem very short. Leaves6-18 by 1—i in., exactly linear, opaque, 7- ele 
nerves very slender. Scape shorter or longer than the leaves; sheath 2-23 in., tip 
obtuse membranous. Heads jin. diam., black and white, rather few-fid. ; wi 
tacle convex, glabrous; invol. bracts green, much shorter than the floral ; eg 
sepals densely bearded, petals villous, one much largest; stamens 6; fem. pes 
short oblong concave, tips truncate bearded ; petals subequal, glands large. ers 
very minute, subglobose, pale yellowish, shining.—Male petals and stamens som 
times sessile between the sepals, the conical stipes being very sbort or 0. 
** Petals of male fl. subequal, or one rather larger, often very obscure, 
none produced beyond the floral bracts. 
+ Involucral bracts woolly or hairy (sometimes glabrous in E. Brown 
anum). Receptacle villous in all. 
l7. E. Wightianum, Mart. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 28; Cat. e 
tall, stout, leaves broadly linear or ensiform, tips obtuse, heads gto d 
snow-white, invol. bracts pale cuneiform reflexed tips truncate or roun e 
floral oblanceolate acuminate strongly cuspidate villous, male Deeg 
small subequal, fem. fl. sessile, sepals narrow concave, bearded, E 
obovate or oblanceolate villous with very long hairs, ovary sessile. an 58 
Enum. iii. 563; Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 271; Korn. in Linnea, xxvi. 
(excl. syn.) E. sexangulare, Herb. Heyne. 
TENASSERIM, Wallich, &c. Preu, Kurz. The Concan, Stocks, &c. ks: 
ascending to 7000 ft. (C.P. 378, 3382). . ) 
Rootstock often as thick as the thumb. Leaves 4-10 by i m. (and pri 
glabrous or sparsely hairy, many-nerved. Scapes many, stout, ribbed and wee 
grooved ; sheaths with long free green tips. Heads } in. diam., subsquarrose ect 
the prominent tips of the fl. bracts; invol. bracts coriaceous at the base; Ver Am 
convex villous; flowers pedicelled; male petals minute in the Tenasserim Karger 
small subequal in the Concan ; stamens 6. Seeds globosely oblong, dark red- 
papillose.—Fem. fl. sometimes 4-merous. 
18. E. Brownianum, Mart. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. 25, tM 
Cat. 6066; tall, slender, leaves narrowly linear or ensiform acr ote or 
glabrous or hairy, scapes solitary very tall, heads 4 in. diam. glo rigid 
hemispheric snow-white, invol. bracts obovate-oblong or cuneiform Tate 
spreading at length reflexed, outer floral cuneiform inner spat wit 
obtuse, male petals small, fem. fl. pedicelled, petals narrow villous : 
very long straight hairs, ovary subsessile. Kunth Enum. iii. 562; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Cyp. 271; Kern. in Linnma, xxvii. 663. E. nilagirense, 
Le: Korn. l.c. 661. 
KmasiA HiLLS, alt. 4-6000 ft, common. MuxwiPonz, Watt. Sai? 
Hrs, Wight, Gardner. CEYLON, Gardner, ascending to 7000 ft., Thwaites 
377, 1001). Jabrous 
Rootstock stout. Leaves 6-18 by 4-4 in., many-nerved, and scapes E sheath 
pubescent or copiously hairy. Scape 1-2 ft., ribbed and deepiy groov beneath, 
very long, tip acuminate green. Heads sometimes depressed and concave 
the stiff pale or dark invol. bracts 3 A in. long, equalling the flowers ; ad fem. 
flat or convex; male sepals free or connate, tips bearded, petals subequb ; 
sepals cymbiform, dorsally hirsute, acute or cuspidate. Seeds oblong Or gu 
papillose and striate.-—The hairs of the fem. petals are much longest 10 the 
plant. 
