Eriseaulon.] CLXXI. ERIOCAULEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 579 
25. E. oryzetorum, Mort. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 28; Wall. Cat. 
6069; leaves ensiform, scapes many short or tall, heads yellow globose or 
ovoid, bracts all scarious hyaline, invol. oblong obtuse passing into the 
tuneate-obovate cuspidate densely imbricate floral, fem. fl. shortly pedi- 
celled, petals slender, Kunth. Enum. iii. 552; Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 270; 
ern. in Linnea, xxvii. 639. E. Hamiltonianum, Mart. l.c. 29; Wall. 
Cat. 6075; Kunth l.c. 
Tropioar HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Sikkim; Assam, SILHET, PEGU, 
9T4 NAGPORE, SINGAPORE and PENANG. 
tstock short, stout, or 0. Leaves 1-3 by 31-4 in., spongy, very many-nerved, 
lrtowed to a truncate coriaceous tip. Scapes 8-18 in. (shorter in dwarf states), 
flexuous, Heads i-i in. diam., straw-colrd., base intruded; receptacle conical 
E columnar, densely villous; male sepals 2, tips fimbriate or glabrous; petals 
mante or O; stamens 6; fem. fl. pedicelled, sepals 3, slender, caducous; petals 
to oblanceolate, naked or ciliolate, caducous ; ovary with petals stipitate 
Zoe the sepals. Seeds pale yellow, very minute, smooth.—Z. Hamiltonianum is 
y an immature state of oryzetorum. 
ET. E. stellulatum, Kern. in Linnea, xxvii. 620; leaves mem- 
b nous broadly subulate or linear, scapes many hairy, heads globose, 
us many times longer than the flowers white scarious stel- 
tely Spreading and finely acuminate, involucral ovate-lanceolate, floral 
Trowly lanceolate, fem. d. sessile, petals oblanceolate ciliate with long 
» Ovary with petals sessile. 
D Concan, Hugel, Stocks. ? BENGAL (Herb. Kew). . 
caves 1-2 in, by i-i in. broad at the base, tapering to a point, very many- 
Scapes 2-7 in., hairs spreading; sheaths shorter than the leaves, tips long 
tae inte, Heads in. diam., perfectly glabrous except the conical recep- 
v and ciliate fem, petals; male sepals 2, free or connate, glabrous, hyaline ; petals 
ji Short ; stamens 6; fem. fl. sessile; sepals 3, dimidiate-ovate falcately incurved 
nme slender recurved points, dorsally crenately winged, petals narrowly ob- 
late, ciliate. Seeds dark chesnut, smooth. 
2". m. echinulatum, Mart. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 29; Wall. 
iuo 082; leaves subulate opaque finely acuminate, scapes many obscurely 
wel heads small globose, bracts all white rigid stellately spreading 
lox te-lanceolate, floral many times longer than the dimerous subsessile 
Pi Ex Ovary with petals stipitate. Kunth Enum. iii. 568; Steud. Syn. 
"YP. 272; Korn, in Linnea, xxvii. 919. 
AVOY ; Mergui, Gomez, Grifith.—DistR1B. Tonkin, China. l 
nates many, ł-1 Dn, spongy. Scapes rather stout, 1-5 in., 
, shining 3 Sheath short. Heads i-i in. diam., straw-colrd.; invol. bracts 
» Narrowed into a slender rigid point; floral longer, narrowed at the base; 
: f € villous; male sepals connate, glabrous ; petals minute, deformed ; stamens 
widd] em, sepals falcately lanceolate, clawed, dorsally crenately winged below the 
ns spinulose-serrate ; petals 0. 
` E. minutu k. f.; very small, leaves subulate or filiform 
"x Or obtuse, sca Ded es däi sheaths membranous and inflated above, 
team inate subglobose few-fld. pale, invol. bracts erect ovate-lanceolate 
ile © Scarious, floral oblanceolate acute or cuspidate, fem. fl. subses- 
With Seals falcate winged or keeled, petals 1-3 very slender or 0, ovary 
Petals sessile or substipitate. 
Duthie Concay, Law. Mysore, Sir F. Adams. RAJPUTANA, on Mt. Aboo, Stocks, 
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