Eriocaulon. | CLIV. ERIOCAULEE (BROWN). 253 
gibbous keel, blackish or dark fuscous, hairy inside and bearded with 
white hairs at the apex. Petals arising about } lin. above the sepals, 
#-1 lin. long, } lin. broad, cuneate-oblong or somewhat spathulate- 
oblong, obtuse, whitish, bearded within with white hairs, and with a 
black gland near the apex. Ovary trigonous, glabrous; style very 
deeply trifid. Male flowers numerous, shortly pedicellate. Sepals free 
or more or less connate below, ? lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, 
fuscous, bearded with white hairs at the apex. Stipes between the 
sepals and petals }—} lin. long. Petals often unequal, }—} lin. long, 
oblong, obtuse, whitish, bearded with white hairs within, and with a 
black central gland. Stamens as long as the petals ; anthers black. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 ft. 
Whyte! (Johnston ex Ruhland, by error). 
Ruhland has described the female bracts as villous and the male bracts as sub- 
glabrous at the apex, and the petals of the male flowers as glandless. I find them to 
be the reverse of this. The heads are viviparous in the Mount Zomba specimens. 
27. E. Hanningtonii, V. #. Br. Plant stemless. Leaves about 
6-8, ascending or spreading, 1-14 in. long, 14-2} lin. broad, linear, 
acute, flat, 9-13-nerved, glabrous. Peduncles several to a plant, 24-5 
in. long, slender, acutely 5-angled, glabrous; their sheaths 1-14 in, 
long, acute, loose, glabrous. Heads 2-21 lin. in diam., subglobose, 
moneecious, grey. Involucral-bracts shorter than the young head, 
spreading, not becoming reflexed, nearly 1 lin. long, 3? lin. broad, 
obovate-oblong, very obtuse, glabrous, light brownish-white. Flowering- 
bracts about 1 lin. long, } Jin. broad, subspathulate-obovate, acute, 
concave, fuscous, thinly pubescent with white hairs on the apical part. 
Receptacle thinly pilose. Female flowers in several exterior rows, 
pedicellate. Sepals 3, subequal, ?— lin. long, } lin. broad, or from front 
to back, lanceolate, acute or obtuse, boat-shaped, one less concave than 
the other two, acutely keeled and somewhat gibbous on the back, 
blackish or dark fuscous, ciliate with a few white hairs at the apex 
and occasionally one or two on the keel, glabrous within. Petals about 
} lin. long, } lin. broad, linear-cuneate, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, 
ciliate with a few white hairs at the apex, white, glandless or with a 
minute black gland just below the apex. Male flowers central, pedicel- 
late. Sepals 4 lin. long, connate into a-funnel-shaped body open down 
one side, 3-crenate or 3-lobed and ciliate at the apex, fuscous. Stipes 
between the sepals and petals about } lin. long. Petals unequal, 
minute, the largest not more than } lin. long, ovate, acute, tipped with 
1-2 hairs, white. Anthers black. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa; Kwa Chiropa, Hannington! 
This is very similar to E. zambesiense, Ruhland, in appearance, but, in the single 
example seen, the peduncles are much shorter and the flowers are quite different in 
structure. From E, elegantulum, Engl. (which it also closely resembles), the pallid 
involucral-bracts will at once discriminate it. 
_ 28. E. infaustum, WV. £. Br. Plant stemless. Leaves about 
0-8, radical, erect, 14-5 in. long, 14-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, flat, 
