258 CLIV. ERIOCAULEZ (BROWN). [Lriocaulon. 
cellate. Sepals connate into a narrowly funnel-shaped body }-} lin. 
long, deeply cleft on one side, denticulate at the apex, glabrous, light 
fuscous. Petals reduced to very minute lobules at the apex of the } lin. 
long stipes, glabrous. Anthers black. Seeds about 4 lin. long, ellipsoid, 
smooth, brown.—Steud. Syn. P). Glum. ii. 273; Koernicke in Linnea, 
xxvii. 612; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 154; Schweinf. Beitr. Fi. 
Aethiop. 295; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 502; Ruhland 
in Engl. Jabrb. xxvii. 84; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 53. 4. 
Richardt, Koernicke in Schweinfurth, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 309, name 
only; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 503; Ruhland in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxvii. 85. HE. sewangulare, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 347 
(excl. all syns.) ; Koernicke in Linnea, xxvii. 613, 615; Durand & 
Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 503; Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 83, 
partly, not of Linn. 2. minimum, Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 895, 
not of Lam. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: on the mountain plains in the Province of Shire, 
Schimper, 1944! Tigre; in inundated places near Tchelatchekenneh, Quartia- 
Dillon. 
Also in South Africa. 
36. E. Heudelotii, V. #. Br. Plants small, tufted, stemless. 
Leaves few, in a radical rosette, erect, 4-3? in. long, 1-4 lin. broad, 
linear, tapering to a very fine hair-like point, 1—3-nerved, glabrous. 
Peduncles 1-3 to a plant, 14-34 in. long, subterete, slightly striate in 
the dried state, glabrous; their sheaths 4—7 lin. long, acute, glabrous. 
Heads 14-2 lin. in diam., somewhat hemispherical, moneecious, with the 
sexes intermixed, light brownish. Involucral-bracts #1 lin. long, 
3 lin. broad, cuneate-oblong, or somewhat obovate, very obtuse, slightly 
lacerate-denticulate at the apex, light ochreous-brown, glabrous. 
Flowering-bracts #-1 lin. long, 4-1 lin. broad, linear-oblanceolate, 
acute, very thin and membranous, glabrous. Receptacle glabrous. 
Female flowers very numerous, pedicellate, entirely destitute of sepals 
or petals, or with 2 filiform simple or bifid sepals at the middle of the 
pedicel; pedicels about 4 lin. long; style trifid to half-way down, 
or expanding upwards into a thin, flat, membranous, linear, entire, bifid 
or trifid blade. Male flowers comparatively few, long-pedicellate. Sepals 
connate into a somewhat funnel-shaped body } lin. long, open down one 
side, toothed at the apex, very membranous, fuscous, glabrous. Stipes 
between the sepals and stamens 0-} lin. long. Petals rudimentary oF 
— Anthers yellowish. Seeds } lin. long, ellipsoid-oblong, ochreous, 
smooth. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia : without precise locality, Heudelot, 677! 678! 
37. E. amboense, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 35. 
Plant stemless, 13-24 in. high. Leaves numerous, 3-1} in. long, }-} ln. 
broad, linear, tapering to a very fine point, flaccid, tessellately veined, 
glabrous. Peduncles 5 or 6 to a plant, 1-13 in. long, slender, terete, 
glabrous, green; their basal sheaths 5-8 lin. long, slightly inflated, 
obtuse, glabrous, green. Flower-heads hemispherical, blackish or dark 
