Eriocauton. | CLIV. ERIOCAULE& (BROWN). 243 
long, 4—} lin. broad, white, ciliate and bearded on the inner face with 
white hairs, and with a black gland near the apex. Anthers white. 
Lower Guinea. Anzvla: Huilla, Antunes, 139! 
11. E. latifolium, Smith in Rees, Cyclop. xiii.’ Stemless. Leaves 
all radical, 2-8 or more in. long, 1-4 lin. broad, linear, subacute or 
somewhat obture, flat, thin, many-nerved, glabrous. Peduncles 1-6 to 
a plant, 5-12 in. long, 3-1 lin. thick, 7-ribbed, glabrous, their basal 
sheaths 2-4 in. long, oblique at the mouth, acute, glabrous. Heads 
monecious, with the male flowers in the centre, 3-4 lin. in diam., 
hemispherical or subglobose, white-villous. Involucral-bracts in 4—5 
series, glabrous, entire, light brown; innermost 1-1} lin. long, $ lin. 
broad, obovate-oblong, obtuse; outermost orbicular often broader than 
long. Flowering-bracts about 1 lin. long, }-} lin. broad, linear- 
oblanceolate or cuneate-oblong, acute, light brownish or fuscous, densely 
bearded with white hairs on the apical part. Receptacle glabrous. 
Female flowers very numerous, pedicellate. Sepals 3, subequal, 3-1 lin. 
long, 4-} lin. broad, oblong or cuneate-oblong, boat-shaped, obtuse, 
very pale brownish-white, hyaline, bearded with long white hairs on 
the apical part. Petals arising slightly above the sepals, ? lin. long, 
very narrow, linear, obtuse, whitish, hyaline, rather densely bearded 
with long white hairs, glandless or one of them with a very minute 
black gland at the apex. Ovary trigonous; style trifid to 2 the way 
down. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 3, free, } lin. long, linear, 
obtuse, whitish, densely bearded with white hairs. Stipes between the 
sepals and petals } lin. long. Petals } lin. long or less, oblong, obtuse, 
whitish, densely fringed with white hairs, and with a black gland just 
below the apex. Anthers white. Capsule } lin. in diam. Seeds 
ellipsoid, apiculate, brown.—Britten in Journ. Bot. 1900, 482. 
E. rivulare,G. Don ex Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 547; Koernicke in 
Linnea, xxvii. 666 ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 505; 
Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 75. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: inarivulet near Vatemba Road, Barter / ina 
rivulet near Freetown, Don / and without precise locality, Vogel / 
In the original description the sepals of the male flowers are stated to be connate 
into a 3-lobed tube, but in all the flowers I have dissec(ed they are free, 
12. E. Schimperi, Koernicke ex Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
154. A robust stemless plant. Leaves in a radigal rosette, numerous, 
34-7 in. long, 3-5 lin. broad, flat, broadly linear, obtuse and slightly 
thickened at the apex, many-nerved, glabrous. Peduncles 1-3 to a 
plant in the specimens seen, 7-14 in. long, 3—} lin. thick, about 8-ribbed, 
‘ glabrous; their basal sheaths 34-4 in. long, loose, somewhat obtuse, 
with a very oblique mouth, glabrous. Flower-heads 4—5 lin. in diam., 
globose, moneecious, with the outer flowers female. Involucral-bracts 
in 2-3 series, 1} lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, oblong or somewhat obovate- 
oblong, acute, glabrous, light fuscous, the innermost subtending the 
female flowers, Flowering-bracts 1} lin. long, ? lin. broad, somewhat 
