254 CLIV. ERIOCAULEE (BROWN). [Hriocaulon. 
7-1l-nerved, glabrous. Peduncles 10-20 to a plant, 5-8 in. long, 
slender, acutely 5-angled, glabrous; their sheaths 1-3 in. long, acute, 
rather loose, glabrous. Heads 2-2? lin. in diam., globose, monecious, 
grey. Involucral-bracts much longer than the young heads and in 
that stage radiating, ultimately reflexed, 1? lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad, 
linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, pallid or light greenish. Flowering-bracts 
1 lin. long, } lin. broad, oblong-oblanceolate, acute, concave, blackish, 
densely covered with white hairs on the apical part. Receptacle pilose. 
Female flowers numerous, in many series, pedicellate. Sepals 3, equal, 
3-3 lin. long, + lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, somewhat 
boat-shaped, slightly ciliate at the apex, blackish. Petals % lin. long, 
4 lin. broad, linear, obtuse, whitish, with an apical black gland and 
tipped with a fringe of white hairs. Male flowers central, pedicellate. 
Sepals # lin. long, connate into a funnel-shaped body open down one 
side, 3-lobed at the apex, glabrous, blackish. Stipes between the sepals 
and petals } lin. long. Petals minute, unequal, the largest not more 
than } lin. long, oblong, white, ciliate with white hairs at the apex and 
with a minute black apical gland. Seeds 4} lin. long, ellipsoid, brown, 
covered with transverse rows of very minute whitish, somewhat glitter- 
ing papille. 
Mozamb. Dist, Portuguese East Africa: Quilimane, in rice fields, Scolé! 
This is probably the same as a plant collected in Zanzibar by Bojer (88), which is 
quoted by Koernicke in Linnea xxvii. 646; in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. FI. Afr. v. 
503 ; in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr., C. 183; and by Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 81, under 
E. trilobum, Ham. 
29. E. elegantulum, Hngl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 133. Stemless. 
Leaves 4-10, radical, usually erect, 3-3 in. long, 4-2} lin. broad, 
linear, acute, flat, 3-11-nerved, glabrous. Peduncles 2-16 to a plant, 
1-8} in. long, slender, acutely 3—4-angled, glabrous; their sheaths 4-3 
in. long, acute, rather inflated, glabrous. Heads 14-2 lin. in diam., 
globose, moneecious, with the male flowers usually central, greyish- 
white. Involucral-bracts much shorter than the young heads, ulti- 
mately reflexed, }-2 lin. long, 4-1 lin. broad, oblong or subquadrate, 
very obtuse, fuscous, glabrous. Flowering-bracts 4-2 lin. long, ¢ lin. 
broad, cuneate-oblong or cuneate-obovate, obtuse or subacute, dark 
fuscous, densely covered with short white hairs on the apical part. 
Receptacle glabrous. Female fiowers very numerous, pedicellate. 
Sepals 3, slightly unequal, 4—} lin. long, } lin. broad, oblanceolate or 
cuneate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, two of them more boat-shaped than 
the third and sometimes gibbous on the back, dark fuscous, bearded 
with a few white hairs on the keel and at the apex. Petals 3, arising 
close to the sepals, }—} lin. long, 4 lin. broad, linear-spathulate or 
cuneate-oblanceolate, subobtuse, whitish, tipped with a few white hairs 
and with a very minute black gland just below the apex. Male 
flowers rather few. Sepals } lin. long, more or less connate into 4 
funnel-shaped body open down one side, trifid or obtusely 3-lobed at the 
apex, fuscous, ciliate with white hairs, Stipes between the sepals and 
