582 CLXXI. ERIOCAULEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriocaulon. 
or cuneately oblong tips rounded, floral cuneately oblanceolate subacute, 
fem. fl. sessile, sepals 2 oblong concave tips ciliate flat, petals oblanceo- 
late ciliate, ovary with petals sessile. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kumaon, 3-4000 ft. and Garwhal, alt. 8-9000 ft., 
Duthie 
D . . a ed è 
Leaves 4—4 in., spongy, opaque, green. Scapes 1-1} in., obscurely 4-groovec; 
sheath as long as the leaves, tip "membranous. Heads subglobose ; invol. bien 
scarious, glistening, pale or dark ; floral dark, sprinkled with white hairs ; receptac s 
small, conical, glabrous ; male sepals free, tips ciliate; petals very minute; stamen 
6. Seeds oblong, pale, with papillose ridges.—Near E. achiton, but the receptacle 
is quite glabrous, 
§§ Receptacle villous. 
35. E. luzulefolium, Mart. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iti. 28; Cat. 
6071; leaves short broadly subulate many-nerved, scapes many flexuou®, 
head small hemispheric pubescent base truncate and intruded, invol. brac l 
spreading or erect (never reflexed) outer broadly cuneiform shining, We 
cuneately oblanceolate obtuse, fem. fl. pedicelled, sepals slender cone 
tipped with bristles, petals 3 linear-lanceolate ciliate, ovary with Ps 
stipitate. Kunth Enum. iii. 553; Schnizl. Icon. t. 46, f. 2,5; Steud. Py» 
Pl. Cyp. 270; Kern. in Linnaa xxvii. 636. 
Throughout INDIA; from Bengal to Burma and the Concan, ascending the 
Khasia Hills to 6000 ft., common. CEYLON, Gardner. fibrous. 
Rootstock elongate and as stout as a swan’s quill, or slender, densely trans- 
Leaves 1-3 by 4-1 in., narrowed from the base to the tip, opaque, Tare’y invol. 
lucent. Scapes 3-12 in. slender; sheath obtuse. Heads jin. diam., pale hal or 
bracts coriaceously scarious; floral dark, shortly hairy, receptacle © Wy f fem. 
columnar; male sepals 2-3, tips ciliate; petals minute, obscure; pedice! $ 
fl. slender. Seeds oblong, yellow.— Difficult to distinguish at sight from E. trilobum 
and quinquangulare. 
280; Thw. Enum. 341. (excl. var.) ; Kern. in Linnea, xxvii. 646. E. Sr 
teum, Mart. l.c. E. Martianum, Wall. Cat. 7279 (prolifera Herb. 
E. argyreum, Steud. lc. 271. E. erythropodum, Mig. in Hohen. | 
to 
Throughout INDIA ; from the Upper Gangetic plain to Bursa, and southw 
CEvYLoxw (C.P. 792). 
; tip, 
Leaves 1-4 by i-i in. ; usually narrowed from the base to the so p es 
few or many-nerved, opaque or subtranslucent, often bright red when "Tin diam.» 
1-4» rather stout and flexuous ; sheath short, tip membranous. He $ are many 
grey when the fl. bracts are sparsely shortly villous, snow-white when ber bui 
and densely villous ; invol. bracts very variable in breadth, pale, glistening f 
tacle globose or columnar ; male sepals 3 or 2 or all connate, tips long-" "ie Oblong, 
very small; stamens 6. Ovary usually with the petals stipitate. 8 tium and 
smooth.—It is difficult to distinguish forms of this from luaulafo 
tals 
