Eriocaulon. | CLIV. ERIOCAULEE (BROWN). 249 
similar, but smaller, all yellowish-white, glabrous, glandless. Male 
flowers numerous, central, shortly pedicellate, quite glabrous. Sepals 
3 lin. long, united into a funnel-shaped body open down one side, 
shortly 3-lobed, submembranous, buff-coloured. Petals very unequal, 
2 rudimentary, I about 4 lin. long, ovate, obtuse. Anthers black. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory; Nupe, Barter! 
A very distinct species, easily recognised by its slightly glossy, buff-coloured 
heads. 
20. E. Welwitschii, Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 97. Stem- 
less. Leaves }-1} in. long, about 4—} lin. broad at the base, filiform- 
subulate, gradually tapering to a very fine point, glabrous. Peduncles 
numerous, 1j—4 in. long, about + lin. thick, filiform, glabrous, their 
sheaths 4-8 lin. long, oblique at the mouth, bifid at the apex. Heads 
1-1} lin. in diam., subglobose, somewhat flattened at the base, slightly 
echinulate from the bracts exceeding the flowers, moncecious, with the 
outer flowers female. ‘Involucral- and flowering-bracts lanceolate, acute 
or acuminate, membranous, whitish or faintly straw-coloured, glabrous, 
those of the involucre 3 lin. long, } lin. broad, the others rather shorter. 
Receptacle pilose. Female flowers sessile. Sepals 3, subequal, 4 lin. 
long, ,1,—4 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, very acute, concave, membranous, 
whitish, glabrous. Petals 3, arising close to the sepals, about 4 lin. 
long, filiform, glabrous. Male flowers subsessile. Sepals 3, about 4 
lin, long, qz—y'p lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, free or more or less 
connate below, membranous, whitish. Petals rudimentary. Anthers 
black.— Dichrolepis pusilla, Welw. Apont. 542. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo ; only seen in one place, between 
Lombe and Candumba, between 2400 and 3800 ft., Welwitsch, 2441 ! 
Var. Ppygmeum, Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 98. A dwarf congested formu, 
8-15 lin. high. Heads somewhat fuscous, with a whitish involucre. Receptacle 
almost glabrous. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, in fields where Sorghum 
had been cultivated the previous year, Welwitsch, 2444! 
21. E. Teusczii, Hngl. & Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 77. 
Leaves in a radical rosette, 1}—2 in. long, 14-2 lin. broad, lanceolate- 
linear, obtuse and slightly thickened at the apex, 11—12-nerved, reddish, 
glabrous. Peduncles up to 2 ft. long, 10-12 times as long as the leaves, 
3-4 to a plant, with sheaths nearly twice as long as the leaves, split 
into 38-4 at the mouth, glabrous. Heads large, globose, hard, shortly 
villous. Involucral-bracts nearly rhomboid, rounded at the apex, 
Somewhat glabrous, whitish-brown. Flowering-bracts obovate, subacute. 
eceptacle apparently glabrous. Female flowers: Sepals 3, equal, | 
narrowly ovate, hairy at the apex, white. Petals 3, elongate-spathulate, 
ciliate all round, with a gland near the apex. Male flowers: Sepals 3, 
almost free to the base, equal, obovate, obtuse, ciliate, white. Petals 
equal, ciliate, with a gland near the apex. Anthers black. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Mechow, 281. 
