Eriocaulon.| CLIV. ERIOCAULEZ (BROWN). 257 
the sides and coarsely toothed on the broad wing-like keel, which is 
about as broad as the rest of the sepal, membranous, blackish, glabrous. 
Petals 2, arising slightly above the sepals, } lin. long, about } lin. broad, 
narrowly cuneate, shortly bifid or rounded at the apex, glabrous, without 
glands, blackish or very dark fuscous. Ovary transversely oblong ; 
styles 2, filiform, exceeding the petals. Male flowers shortly pedicellate. 
Sepals scarcely } lin. long, linear or cuneately oblong, rounded or 
toothed at the apex, glabrous, fuscous; petals rudimentary. Stamens 
4; anthers black.—Z. huillense, Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 95, 
not of Engl. & Ruhland. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in somewhat spongy wooded marshy 
meadows between Lopollo and Monino, 3800-5500 ft., Welwitsch, 2448! on boggy 
slopes, Welwitsch, 2449! very sparsely on the lofty pastures of Empalanca, which 
are flooded in summer, Welwitsch, 2450 ! 
As the name EZ. huillense, Engl. & Rubland, claims priority by about a month, I 
have been obliged to change the name of this species. 
34. E. gilgianum, Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 84. Leaves 
4—7 lin. long, } lin. broad, narrowly linear, acute, 1-nerved, glabrous. 
Peduncles 3-4 to a plant, up to 13 in. long, 3-4 times as long as the 
leaves, glabrous, with sheaths shorter than the leaves. Heads small, 
about ? lin. in diam., glabrous, greenish or blackish. Involucral-bracts 
obtuse or somewhat acute, glabrous, greenish. Flowering-bracts obovate, 
somewhat glabrous (‘ glabriusculis,” i.e., probably slightly pubescent), 
those of the female flowers obtuse, uf the male flowers acute. Receptacle 
pilose. Female flowers: Sepals ovate, acute, ciliate all round, pale 
greenish-yellow. Petals lanceolate, acute, nearly glabrous, without 
glands. Male flowers: Sepals connate into a spathe-like body, with 2 
to several irregular acute lobes, nearly glabrous, greenish. Petals none. 
Anthers black. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Antunes, 163. 
Stated to be the smallest of the African species and one of the smallest species in 
the genus, having an especially slender appearance on account of the capillary 
leaves. I have not seen it. 
35. E. abyssinicum, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 341. Plant small, 
stemless, annual? Leaves about 4-8 to a plant, radical, +4 in. long, 
4-4 lin. broad, linear-subulate, tapering to a very fine point, glabrous. 
Peduncles 3-4 in. long, 3—4-angled, slender, glabrous, their sheaths 
4-1 in. long, acute, very oblique and slightly inflated at the mouth, 
glabrous. Heads 1-11 lin. in diam., subglobose, monecious. Involucral- 
bracts #-} lin.long, 4-4 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse or acute, concave, light 
straw-coloured, glabrous. Flowering- bracts $—# lin. long, } or less broad, 
lanceolate,acute, concave, glabrous, varying from light fuscous to blackish. 
Receptacle glabrous or nearly so. Female flowers subsessile. Sepals 3, 
subequal, $ lin. long, about 4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, boat- 
shaped, glabrous, light fuscous or greenish-fuscous. Petals 3, arising 
slightly above the sepals, rather less than 4 lin. long, about Tz lin. 
broad, linear, acute, flat, glabrous, not ciliate, without glands, pallid or 
fuscous. Style bifid to half-way down. Male flowers rather few, pedi- 
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