Lriocaulon. | CLIV. ERIOCAULEX (BROWN). 237 
lyre-shaped. Sepals 2, usually equal, ?—2 lin. long, } lin. broad, linear- 
sigmoid, acute, subacute, or obtuse, glabrous, whitish ; keel as broad as. 
the sides of the sepal. Petals 2, very unequal, linear, subobtuse, whitish, 
glabrous ; the longer 1 lin. or rather more long, 5}, lin. broad, much 
exceeding the sepals, twisted at the middle; the shorter 4—% lin. long. 
Male flowers shortly pedicellate. Sepals 2, equal, 4-4 lin. long, } lin. 
broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, concave, whitish. Petals minute, $-} 
lin. long, subulate. Stamens 4; anthers black. Seeds ellipsoid, with 
a flat side, light reddish-brown, with a yellowish reticulation. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in spongy places formed by Algew on the 
higher parts of Morro de Lopollo, 3800-5500 ft., Welwitsch, 2446! 
A minute and very distinct species, well characterised, as Dr. Rendle observes, by 
its dense habit and the long protruding petal of the female flower. 
2. E. pumilum, 4 feel. ex Kornicke in Linnea, xxvii. 621. Plant 
1-24 in. high. Leaves tufted, 3-6 lin. long, }-4 lin. broad, linear- 
subulate, very acute, flat, glabrous, 3-nerved. Peduncles 8-14 to a 
plant, 1-2} in. long, acutely 3—4-angled, setaceous, glabrous, their 
sheaths 7-8 lin. long, oblique at the apex, glabrous. Heads monecious,. 
few-flowered, glabrous, including the involucre 1-2 lin. in diam. 
Involucral-bracts radiating beyond the flowers, }-1} lin. long, 4-4 lin. 
broad, oblong, obtuse, or acute, glabrous, scarious, white, shining. 
Flowering-bracts }-1 lin. long, obovate-oblong, concave, obtuse or sub- 
acute, glabrous, white. Receptacle glabrous. Female flowers 7-9, 
very shortly pedicellate. Sepals 3, free, unequal, about 4 lin. long, 
yz-10 lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous, white. Petals 3, inserted 
higher than the sepals, unequal, } lin. long, ;1,-} lin. broad, linear or 
linear-spathulate, one rather larger and subspathulate, ciliate along the 
middle part (hairy within, ex Kérnicke), white, with a black gland near 
the apex. Male flowers 1-2, central, pedicellate. Sepals 3, lanceolate, 
more or less connate, subacute, glabrous, membranous, white. Petals 
minute, unequal, pilose, with a black gland on the inner face. Anthers 
black. Seeds } lin. long, ellipsoid, brown.—Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 503; Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 84. 2. pulchellum, 
Kornicke in Linnea, xxvii. 622; Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 84; 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 503. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
I cannot, from the description given, distinguish Z. pumilum from FE. pul- 
chellum; the only differences assigned are, that the bracts of 2. pumilum are 
slightly larger, and the involucral bracts slightly narrower and longer than in 
&, pulchellum, and are acute instead of obtuse. The two supposed species were 
mixed in Afzelius’ Herbarium. I have only seen EZ. pulchellum, a small and very 
distinct species. 
3. E. xeranthemoides, Van Heurck & Miill. Arg. in Van Heurck, 
Obs. Bot. 103. Plant small, stemless. Leaves in a radical rosette, 
1-1} in. long, 1-1} lin. broad, flat, linear, tapering to a subobtuse point, 
many-nerved, glabrous. Peduncles numerous, 1-2 in. long, obtusely 
4—5-angled, glabrous, their sheaths 4—6 lin. long, acute, very oblique at 
