Eriocaulon. | CLIV. ERIOCAULE& (BROWN). 245 
a linear black gland near the apex. Anthers black—Engl. Jahrb, 
XXvill. 356. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Ukami; on the Lukwangula Plateau 
in the Uluguru district, Stuhlmann, 9148, Goetze, 293! 
In the very imperfect description given by Ruhland the flower-heads are 
described as somewhat glabrous (glabriusculis), and the involucral-bracts as greenish- 
fuscous. I have not seen Stuhlmann’s 9143, but in the plant collected by Goetze 
(from which I have made the above description), the heads are densely white- 
pubescent, and the involucral-bracts white. ‘The numerous, narrow, very prominent 
ribs on the peduncle are quite different from those of any other African species I 
have examined. 
14. E. decipiens, V. /. Br. Stemless, moderately robust, with 
stout roots. Leaves numerous, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lin. broad, flat 
gradually tapering from the base to a very acute point, many-nerved, 
with the tessellate cross-veins very distinct in the basal part in the dried 
state, woolly in the sheathing part, otherwise glabrous. Peduncle 
solitary, twice as long as the leaves, 6-ribbed, glabrous ; sheath 34 in. 
long, shortly oblique at the acute apex, glabrous. Heads 4} lin. in diam., 
hemispherical, unisexual in the 6 examples seen. Involucral-bracts 
about 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, obovate, acute, whitish, glabrous. 
Flowering-bracts 13-2 lin. long, 3—? lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, acute, 
concave, much incurved at the apex, very light straw-colour or faintly 
greenish-white, bearded with white hairs on the apical part. Receptacle 
pilose. Female flowers not seen. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 3, 
nearly equal, more or less connate at the base, 1-1} lin. long, {-} lin, 
broad, obovate-ohlong, obtuse,- concave, entirely fuscous, bearded with 
white hairs at the apex. Petals separated from the sepals by a stipes of 
variable length, unequal, the largest 3-1} lin. long, oblong, oblanceolate 
or linear, and sometimes scarcely broader than the gland, white, densely 
bearded with white hairs, and with a linear black gland at the middle, 
Anthers black.—Z. sonderianum. Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, iv. 
53; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. U. 133; Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 81, 
partly, not of Koernicke. 
: Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Mlanji, Whyte, 
15! 
This plant is so exceedingly like Z. sonderianum, Koernicke, in external appear- 
ance as to have been mistaken for it, but it distinctly differs in the following 
particulars :—The flowering-bracts are much longer, broader, without the fuscous 
spot on each side of the less pronounced keel, and are less rigid and more mem- 
branous ; the sepals of the male flowers are larger, much more membranous, not 
keeled, and are fuscous quite to the apex, whilst in Z. sonderianum the apical part 
of the sepals of the male flowers is white with a whitish mid-line line running half- 
way down the keel. Other differences may, perbaps, be found in the female flowers 
When known. From E. Dregei, Hochst, it differs in its very acute leaves, and much 
shorter cilia on the sepals, &e. 
15. E. Jacteum, Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 99. Stemless, 
tufted. Leaves numerous, 3-1? in. long, 4-13 lin. broad, densely 
