264 CLIV. ERIOCAULEE (BROWN). [ Pepalanthus. 
growth, about 4 in. long, 4-3 lin. broad, linear, acute, thick, rigid, 
thinly covered with rather long adpressed hairs, light greenish-grey 1n 
the dried state. Peduncles numerous, arising around the sides of the 
rosette from the axils of the older leaves, none central, {1 in. long, 
filiform, terete, thinly covered with long adpressed hairs; their sheaths 
about } in. long, obliquely truncate and slightly dilated at the mouth, 
ciliate, and thinly covered with long hairs. Heads about 2 lin. m 
diam., depressed or cushion-like, many-flowered, moneecious, brown. 
Involucral-bracts 5—6-seriate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuml- 
nate, brown, ciliate and thinly covered with long hairs at the apex, the 
innermost about 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, the outer smaller. Flowering- 
bracts ? lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad or less, linear, acute, brown, tipped 
with a small tuft of hairs, otherwise glabrous. Receptacle large, rather 
flat, spongy, densely covered with fine whitish hairs as long as the 
bracts and flowers. Female flowers few, in about 1 series or sometimes 
only 1-2 in a head, subsessile. Sepals % lin. long, 4~-} lin. broad, 
cuneate-obovate, obtuse, slightly concave, brown, glabrous, ciliate with 
short white clavate hairs, which in some flowers appear to be absent. 
Petals free, arising close to the sepals and very similar to them in size 
and shape, concave, white, hairy on the inner face, ciliate, glandless. 
Style with 3 bifid stigmatic branches and 3 thickened clavate append- 
ages alternating with them. Male flowers numerous, shortly pedicel- 
late. Sepals exactly as in the female flowers. Petals connate into a 
funnel-shaped tube, white, hyaline, glabrous, 3-toothed where adnate to 
the stamens. Anthers pallid. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: without precise locality, Borkstadt! 
This plant is very distinct from all the other African species of this Order. 
The sepals in the flowers of both sexes often appear to be entirely without cilia, but 
I am unable to determine whether the cilia have fallen away or whether only some 
of the flowers have ciliate sepals. 
Orper CLV. RESTIACER. (By N. £. Brown.) 
Flowers usually dicecious, rarely monecious, very rarely hermapbro- 
dite. Perianth-segments usually 6, in two series, sometimes 5, 4, OF 3, 
very rarely deficient in the female flowers, glumaceous, scarious or 
hyaline, all similar or the inner different from the rest, 2 of the outer 
segments often complicate and more or less keeled. Male flowers with 
3 stamens opposite the inner perianth-segments ; filaments slender, 
free, or connate into a column in the basal part; anthers linear-oblong, 
1—2-celled, dorsifixed, introrse, opening longitudinally. Pistillode 
rudimentary or none. Female flowers like or unlike the males. 
Staminodes none or 2-3 opposite the inner perianth-segments. Ovary 
free, sessile, or on a stout stipes, 1-3-celled ; styles 1-3, free or more of 
less united, linear-filiform, with a plumose stigmatic surface on the 
inner side. Ovules solitary in each cell, orthotropous, pendulous. 
Fruit 1-3-celled, dry, nut-like or capsular, dehiscent or indehiscent. 
Seeds solitary in each cell, pendulous; testa hard or membranous, 
