Eriocaulon] ` crxxi. ERIOCAULEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 583 
trilobum. It is said to be Australian, but I have seen no specimen from that 
country, 
3. B. trilobum, Ham. in Wall. Cat. n. 6072 D; leaves broadly 
mbulate or ensiform acute or acuminate many-nerved, scapes many, heads 
globose dark grey base intruded, invol. bracts small linear-oblong reflexed, 
oral spathulately oblanceolate obtuse or subacute, male petals minute, 
fem. A. subsessile, sepals 3 dark cymbiformly oblanceolate, petals narrowl 
oblanceolate sparin ly ciliate, ovary with petals sessile or subsessile. 
qunquelobum, Wall. Cat. l.c.; Kern. in Linnea, xxvii. 645. E. subula- 
: Byer ez Kern. l.c.. E. Sollyanum, Royle IUl. 409, t. 97. f. 1. 
jreughout INDIA; from Kumaon, ascending to 4000 ft., to Bengal, the Concar 
ar. 
Habit of E quinquangulare, from which it is often difficult to distinguish forms, 
the heads are usually smaller, much darker in colour, the invol. bracts are 
harrow, the floral never acuminate or cuspidate, and the flowers are very shortly, 
Vat all pedicelled, with broader concave fem. sepals that are strongly ciliate on the 
^ Ovary sessile or very shortly stipitate,— Mr. Law has sent specimens of a 
variety with broader leaves and the narrower lanceolate acute invol. bracts radiating 
" longer than the head ; the fem. sepals too are narrower, these are accompanied 
Specimens in which the invol. bracts are normal, together with intermediates. 
lave seen no specimen with the conspicuous red foliage so common in £E, 
fuhquangulamo, 
h 3. E. Helferi, Hook. f.; leaves ensiform acute flaccid, scapes many, 
tads globose or hemispheric white, invol. bracts obovate-oblong scarious 
"reading or at length recurved, floral cuneately obovate acute dorsally 
3 entose, male sepals 3 glabrous, petals obscure, fem. fl. sessile, sepals 
oblong, 2 concave obovate ciliate, ovary with petals sessile. 
NASSERIM, Helfer (Kew Dist. 5584). 
hairy ves 3-4 by 3-2 in., translucent. Scapes 4-9 in., flexuous, young glabrous or 
vil low; sheath acuminate. Heads jin. diam., softly tomentose; receptacle densely 
owe Invol. bracts much shorter than the floral, which are much longer than the 
ers; male fl. pedicelled ; sepals concave, tip hooded; stamens 4-6; fem. petals 
Pos bly broad, unequal. Ovary sessile. Seeds minute, dark red-brown, strongly 
te and papillose, 
li 39. B. Walkeri, Hook. f. ; densely tufted, leaves narrowly subulate or 
i voy few-nerved tips obtuse, heads globose snow-white, invol. bracts 
late er spreading outer quadrate or cuneiform inner oblong, floral oblanceo- 
Pals De or mucronate, fl. fem. sessile, sepals narrowly oblong obtuse, 
adti oblanceolate villously ciliate with very long jointed spreading hairs 
E ped with short stout obtuse white ones, ovary with petals sessile. 
uuquangulare, var. argenteum, Thw. Enum. 341. 
Lea N; at Caltura, Macrae ; in paddy fields, Thwaites (C.P. 3562). 
Heads 17 1-2 by Ae in., glistening, opaque. Scapes 6-8 in., very slender. 
den dei? diam. or less; invol. bracts pale, scarious; floral white, membranous 
Sly villous above the middle; receptacle hemispheric, hairs as long as the hyaline 
H s 
Nine 3 male sepals 3 (2 connate) long-bearded, petals 3 small orbicular subequal 
uS E. Thwaitesii, Kern. in Linnea, xxvii. (1854), 627 ; leaves linear 
head + 9r ensiform acuminate many-nerved, scapes many twice as long, 
*Rispheric dark sparsely mealy, involucre as broad as the heads, 
