580 OLXXI. ERIOCAULEZ. (J. D. Hooker) ` [Zriocaulon. 
Densely tufted. Leaves 4-3 in., compressed, opaque, 3-5-nerved, base, dilated 
and sparsely woolly within. Scapes 14-23 in., capillary, flexuous ; al which are 
Heads +}, in. diam., shining; invol. bracts much longer than the or: b ale calyx 
glabrous or sparsely hairy ; receptacle small, columnar, sparsely villous ; d fen. 
infundibular, split on one side, tips bearded; petals minute ; stames labrous, 
sepals 2, with rarely a filiform 3rd, falcately incurved with recurve ree S ts very 
keel or wing spinulose. Seeds oblong.—Resembles E. achiton, but invol. 
different. 
+++ Involucral bracts glabrous, floral bearded villous or pubescent. 
§ Receptacle glabrous or sparsely hairy. 
; : leaves long, 
29. E. sexangulare, Linn. Sp. Pl. 87; tall, stout, ' 
scapes many tall, heads conoid or hemispheric hard hoary base S 
invol. bracts coriaceous subquadrate or orbicular, floral persis a &liform 
imbricate spathulate cuspidate rigid, fem. fl. sessile, petals 8 E Wallichi- 
with a terminal pencil of hairs, ovary with petals subsessile. Kanth Enum. 
anum, Mart. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 26, t. 249; Cat. 6068 ; LS n. Cup. 
ii. 564; Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix., Suppl. i. 449 ; Steu ibe Bomb. 
271; Keern. in Linnea, xxvii. 687; Thw. Enum. 341; Dalz. & la e, Lour. 
Fl. 980; Trimen in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 136. E. quidranguiare, 
Fl. Cochinch. 77. 
c RA 
TENASSERIM, southward to MALACCA ; and the DECCAN PENINSULA, ys CA ada- 
southwards. CEYLON, Macrae, Ze, (C.P. 220).—DisTRIB. Tropica > 
ascar. : in. broad at 
s Kootstock as thick as the little finger or less, Leaves 4-12 1N., à ud ko 
the base, flat, narrowed up to the acuminate or subacute tip, meli acuminate, not 
striate, drying brown. Scapes up to 18 in., stiff; tips of sheaths izontal, rigid, 
membranous. Heads À in. diam. or less; invol. bracts shining, ori columnar oF 
appressed ; floral dark, rigid, with white tips; receptacle glo we connate, one 
hemispheric, sparsely shortly pilose; flowers flat; male sepals free form incurv 
sometimes dorsally winged, petals minute; fem. sepals 3, 2 2 subglobose oF 
acute dorsally crenately winged or not, 3rd linear, narrow. See il the leaves are 
oblong, the ridges papillose.—In some Concan specimens from Dalze sv small. 
$-i in. broad, linear, flaccid, quite translucent, and the heads very 
Australian E. australe, Br., hardly differs. petals 
i us 
VAR. longifolium ; more slender, leaves often longer, fem. fl. pua id. ez 
sparsely hairy from the middle upwards, E. longifolium, Nees in Willd. Herb.— 
Kunth l.c. 567; Steud. Le: Korn. l.c. 690. E. sexangulare, 
Tenasserim, Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and Ceylon. 
+ is longate, 
30. E. Dalzellii, Kern. in Linnea, xxvii. 605; rhizome spheric 
leaves very slender finely acuminate, scapes many, heads blong, flora 
white villous, invol. bracts scarious obovate- or oner: slender, 
hyaline oblanceolate subacute, fem. fl. pedicelled, sepals 2. : ovary Wi 
petals 3 narrowly oblanceolate ciliate with flexuous hairs, (1851) 280 ; 
petals stipitate. E. rivulare, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. M. 
Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 280, 
SovTH Concan; in the Malwan Province, in streams, Dalzell. — illary rootlets. 
Rootstock elongate, prostrate, densely clothed with tortuous o qns, T-nerved- 
Leaves in a terminal tuft, 4-10 by 35-35 in., flexuous, flattened, P truded ; invo 
Scapes 7-18 in., 10-grooved. Heads } in. diam., base truncate ei hairy ; A a 
bracts short, yellowish; receptacle hemispheric or columnar, sparse y us, petals sme 
incurved, hairs caducous; male sepals free or connate, tips Vl flowerless very 
elliptic subequal; stamens 6. Seeds globose, smooth, shining.—Som 
