Eriocauton. } CLIV, ERIOCAULEE (BROWN). 
Flowering-bracts with a transverse fuscous band 
near the apex ; sepals of the female flowers 
fuscous, 
Flowering bracts and nepals of the female flowers 
entirely straw-coloured - : : 
Female flowers with 8 sepals and 8 petals. 
Peduncles shorter than or about equalling the 
leaves. (See also 6, EZ. bifistulosum and 31, 
E. subulatum.) 
Plant 13-2 in. bigh; involucral-bracts light 
straw-coloured : : One 
Plant 5-7 in. high ; involucral-bracts fuscous, 
darker towards the apex . 
Peduncles longer than the leaves, usually 2 2 to 
many times as long. (In 31, E. subulatum, 
the peduncles are not much longer than the 
leaves, which is sometimes the case in 12, 
FE. Schimperi, aud in 6, E. bifistulosum, 
they are sometimes shorter than the leaves.) 
*“Flowering-bracts glabrous and not ciliate; 
heads glabrous to the eye. (See also 26, 
E.. zambesiense, in which the outer flower- 
ing-bracts are nearly or quite glabrous, 
and 13, E. mesanthemoides, 30, E. Schlech- 
tert and 34, H. gilgianum, in which they 
are described as somewhat glabrous, 
* glabriusculis.”’) - 
+Sepals of the female flowers glabrous and not 
ciliate. (See also ++ and +++, where the 
hairs may easily be overlooked unless 
sufficiently magnified.) 
‘Receptacle pilose. (In 35, Z. abyssinicum, 
the receptacle appears to have here and 
there a hair, but is scarcely pilose.) 
Leaves 3-2} (usually more than 1) lin. 
broad. 
Heads yellowish-white or light straw- 
coloured, 23-3 lin. in diam. ; 
sepals of the female flowers all 
filiform : 
Heads blackish or brown, 1 191 lin. 
in diam. 
Lateral sepals of the female flowers 
shortly acute or obtuse, very 
gibbous-keeled ; heads acre $ 
globose : 
Lateral sepals of the female flow ers 
acuminate, almost awned, gib- 
bous-keeled; heads somewhat 
truncate at the base 
Heads pinkish- -buff or deep tawny, 
13-2 lin. in diam. ; lateral sepals 
oF the female Howece obliquely 
obtriangular, deeply hooded, 
slightly gibbous- -keeled 
. 24. 
25 
4. 
Oo 
+18. 
- 19. 
E. plumale. 
E. senegalense. 
E, Volkensii. 
. BE. Thunbergii. 
. E. bongense. 
. BE. Buchanant. 
E. andongense. 
E. fuloum. 
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