584 CLXXI. ERIOCAULEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Eriocaulon. 
bracts spreading and incurved obovate-oblong shining, floral oblanceolate 
acute tips hoary, male sepals glabrous, fem. fl. pedicelled, sepals cymbiform, 
petals short filiform penicillate above the middle with long spreading hairs, 
ovary with petals sessile. 
Nireurei HILLS; Schmidt. CEYLON, Walker, Thwaites (C.P. 790, in part). c 
Leaves 1-24 by AA in., few- or many-nerved, opaque. Scapes flexuous ; tipso 
sheath acuminate, not membranous. Heads 1—} in. diam. ; receptacle convex, densely 
villous; fl. bracts greenish-brown scarious ; male sepals 3 (2 connate) glabrous 3 
nearly so, petals very small, stamens 6 ; fem. sepals nearly glabrous, dorsally roun d 
or subcarinate. Seeds oblong with papillose stria.—Well marked by the slen er 
fem. petals, much like those of E. sexvangulare. The Nilghiri specimens are mue 
smaller and narrower leaved than the Cingalese. 
41, E. collinum, Hook. f.; leaves short narrowly linear or subulate, 
scapes many, heads globose dark grey, invol. bracts small, outer very SI" . 
cuneate-obovate, floral oblanceolate or spathulate acute acuminate or fen 
pidate dorsally hoary or the outer glabrous, male petals 3 small one ` e 
largest and exserted beyond the sepals but not beyond the bracts, ute 
fl. pedicelled, sepals 2 cymbiform 3rd flat, petals narrowly oblancer » 
ciliate, ovary and petals sessile or shortly stipitate. E. luzulefolium, ^f 
Enum. 341. ke 
NiLneuiRI HILLS, Foulkes, Schmidt, Gardner; Conoor, 7000 ftu, Claris 
CEYLON; Newera Elia, Gardner, &c., alt. 4000 ft. (C.P. 796, 1000). rved 
Densely tufted. Leaves 1-21 by 4-1 in., obtuse, compressed, 1 oe or 
opaque or translucent. Scapes 13-12 in., rigid, flexuous ; sheath stout, equ bracts 
shorter than the leaves, tip obtuse membranous. Heads } in. diam. ; invo uar 
scarious, at length reflexed ; receptacle hemispheric or columnar, densely sh this 
sepals of male and fem. dark.— The well developed male petals: distinguis sabe 
species from the others of this section except E. Walkeri, in which they a his or 
equal—In Wight’s Herbarium there are specimens (without habitat) of 
a closely allied plant, smaller in size, in which the male petals are equal. 
42. E, achiton, Kern. in Linn»a, xxvii. (1854), 630; small, Fac 
subulate, scapes twice as long, heads very small hemispheric eege ite 
bracts erect cuneiform pale, tip truncate or rounded, floral onor der, 
spathulate hirsute or hoary, fem. fl. shortly pedicelled, sepals 2 s 
petals 3 or 0, ovary with petals stipitate. 
Knasra Hrrzs; alt. 4-5000 ft., Grifith (Kew Distrib. 5376), Clarke. filiform ; 
Leaves 4-1 in., flattened, opaque, 3-5-nerved at the base. Scapes few, ract 
sheath finely acuminate, tip not membranous. Heads j5-j in. diam.; nics eric, 
few, coriaceous, shining; floral incurved, nearly glabrous ; recepta cle Water 
villous ; flowers shortly pedicelled ; male sepals 2, narrow ; petals minute or the hairy 
stamens few ; fem. sepals filiform linear or dilated and concave towards t 8 
tips, petals in the most developed heads 3, narrowly oblanceolate, ciliate. 
oblong, transversely striolate, red-brown.—Very near the E. nigricans, 
Australia, 
r. of 
R irsute, 
lanceolate acuminate, floral obovate-oblong or oblanceolate tips hirsu 
