Eriocaulon. | CLIV. ERIOCAULE& (BROWN). 947 
Receptacle ovoid or conical, pilose with long silky hairs, which also 
occur at the base of the pedicels. Female flowers very numerous, 
pedicellate. Sepals 3, free, equal or unequal, #-1} lin. long, about 
zs lin. broad, linear-filiform, acute, faintly tinted with straw-colour, 
glabrous. Petals 3, shortly distant from the sepals, unequal, ?—1{ lin. 
long, ;,-} lin. broad, linear, obtuse, white, hyaline, glabrous on both 
sides, ciliate at the apex, without glands. Ovary trigonous; style 
trifid to half-way down. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 3, free, 
4 lin. long, ;4,—4 lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous, hyaline, faintly 
tinged with fuscous or straw-colour. Stipes between the sepals and 
petals } lin. long. Petals rudimentary. represented by 1-3 minute 
tuftsof hairs. Anthersblack. Capsule }lin.indiam. Seeds ellipsoid, 
brown, reticulate with very minute white papille. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory ; Nupe, Barter, 1019a! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur ; at Agada (River ?) near Jur Ghattas, 
Schweinfurth, 2539! Bongo; at Balu stream, near Sabbi, Schweinfurth, 2722 ! 
17. E. Buchananii, Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb, xxvii.83. Stemless. 
Leaves in a radical rosette, }-1} in. long, 1-2} lin. broad, flat, linear, 
acute or subobtuse, often slightly thickened at the apex, 5-1 1-nerved, 
tessellately cross-veined, glabrous. Peduncles very numerous, 3-7 in. 
long, 4—} lin. thick, 4—5-striate and twisted in the dried state, square 
or terete when swollen in water, glabrous, their sheaths 3—1} in. long, 
acute, entire, glabrous. Heads exactly globular, monecious, 14-2} 
lin. in diam., blackish or dark brown. Involucral-bracts at length 
reflexed, 1 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad, oblong-obovate, obtuse, glabrous. 
Flowering-bracts 1 lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad, spathulate-obovate, acute, 
concave, blackish or fuscous, glabrous or very thinly pubescent with 
whitish hairs. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers very numerous, in 
many series, pedicellate. Sepals 3, unequal, blackish or brown, glabrous, 
two lateral 4 lin. long, deeply concave, gibbous-keeled, obtuse, the 
third (ventral) } lin. long, 4-} lin. broad, lanceolate, acute. Petals 
slightly unequal, 4—? lin. long, $-} lin. broad, oblanceolate or linear- 
oblanceolate, obtuse, dark fuscous, rarely pallid, glabrous, glandless. 
Male flowers comparatively few, central, pedicellate. Sepals 3, more or 
less united into a funnel-shaped body open down one side, 3-crenate at 
the apex, } lin. long, blackish, rarely pallid, glabrous. Petals separated 
from the sepals by a stipes } lin. long, very unequal, two very rudi- 
mentary or altogether wanting, the third } lin. long, oblong, obtuse, 
whitish, not exceeding the stamens, glabrous, glandless. Anthers 
black. Seeds 3 lin. long, ellipsoid, covered with very minute white 
papille arranged in transverse rows. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; on the Tanganyika 
Plateau at Fort Hiil, 3800-4000 ft., Whyte / Shibisa (Chikwawa) to Tshinmuze, 
2000-4000 ft., Kirk! at the foot of Mount Sochi, 3000 ft., Kirk! Namasi, 
Cameron, 50! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1168! 
e in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 
18. E. andongense, Welw. ex Rendl : : 
-green, becoming yellowish- 
100. Stemless, somewhat fleshy, subglaucous 
