Pepalanthus. | CLIV. ERIOCAULEZ (BROWN). 263 
Receptacle hairy. Female flowers sessile. Sepals 3,sometimes unequal, 
nearly 4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, boat-shaped, glabrous, sparsely 
ciliate on the margins, yellowish. Petals about 4 lin. long, whitish. 
Style with a stout base, dividing into 3 slender stigmatic arms, without 
any alternating sterile arms. Male flowers subsessile. Sepals $ lin. 
long and about half as broad, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous. Petals connate 
into a short funnel. Stamens 3; anthers white. Seeds ellipsoid, 
reddish-brown. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, in moist fields after the 
cultivation of Sorghum, 5500 ft., Welwitsch, 2447 ! 
2. P. Wahlbergii, Koernicke in Mart. Fl. Bras. iii. i, 459. Leaves 
very numerous, in a dense rosette, erect or spreading, 4-1 in. long, 
3-4 lin. broad, subulate, flat above, convex beneath, very acute, glabrous, 
woolly at the base. Peduncles few or numerous, central, unequal, 1-9 
in. long, filiform, trigonous ; glabrous or more or less hairy in the upper 
part and occasionally all along; their basal sheaths 4-9 lin. long, acute, 
with a very oblique mouth, glabrous or thinly pubescent with spreading 
hairs. Heads 2-3 lin. in diam., hemispherical, moneecious, with the 
Sexes intermingled. Involucral-bracts in about 3 series, the inner 
1-1} lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, concave, 
obtuse or subacute, light brown or fuscous. Flowering-bracts none. 
Receptacle convex, villous. Pedicels of both sexes villous, }—g lin. long. 
Sepals of both sexes similar, free, 3—{ lin. long, lanceolate, boat-shaped, 
acute, keeled, glabrous, slightly ciliate on the margins below, pale brown 
or fuscous, those of the female flowers enlarging in fruit. Stipes 
between the sepals and petals very short in the female flower, 
about half as long as the sepals in the male. Female flower: Petals 
2~% lin. long, free at the base, connate above into a tube, crenulate or 
minutely 3-lobed at the apex, hairy outside, white, glandless. silly 
triquetrous, glabrous; style with 6 filiform branches, 3 of ae ‘i 
ing in globose knobs. Male flower: Corolla a mnt ae 
tube, irregular at the mouth. Stamens 2-3; anthers white.—N. ve 
in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 59; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 102; 
Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 504. Dupatya Wahlbergii, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 746. 
Pd tated Guinea. Niger Territory: Nupe; in a swamp near Lom, Barter, 
9! 
™ : Huilla, in spongy or marshy places; near the 
shies 4 aa he Mosteos Welwitsch, 2454 betes Lopollo and Monino, 
Welwitsch, 2455! and near the banks of the River Quipumpunhine, near Humpata, 
Welwitsch, 24558 ! es ms 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uziba ; in Usongora npptabay eR 
edge of a swamp, Wilson, 140! Between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Rukwa, 
6000 ft., Nutt ! 
Also in the Transvaal. 
3. P. pulvinatus, V. F. Br. Plant very dwarf, stemless. 
: ded into a cushion-like 
ves very numerous (200-300), densely crow | , 
rosette 1-14 in. in diam., all strongly recurved from the first stages of 
