612 MONOECIA HEXANDRIA.  Leucocephala, 
shaped, with a small round opening at the.apex ; hairy on the 
outside. | Nectary two filaments from the base of the corol 
on the inside, and of about its length. Germ conical. . —— 
length of the corol. Stigmas three, woolly. : 
LEUCOCEPHALA. R. 
Flowers, male and female, a ggregated i in a globular ndad, 
with a common calyx of five, or many leaflets, and a chafly 
receptacle, Male perianth proper one-leaved. Corollets, 
or tube of the filaments, six-cleft ; divisions subulate, bearing 
the anthers on their apices. Memale proper perianth from 
two to three-leaved. Corollets three-petalled. Sty — three- 
cleft, es sea tricoccus, 
bP Yyriintdifolias Re 
Leaves ensiform. Common calyx five-leaved. 
Eriocaulon quinquangulare, Willd. i. 485, 
Beng. Goori. 
- The figure referred to in Pluckenet, viz. ¢.221./. 7, agrees 
well with this species, and I doubt the possibility of distin- 
guishing it from sexangulare by the scape, particularly in the 
dry specimens, as I could never do it with the living plant,so 
that I conclude some other specific character must be — 
ed for, such as I have ventured to give, ie 
It is a common annual, in wet cultivated places in most 
"parts of India, appearing about the close of the rains. 
~ Leaves few, radical, sword-shaped. Scape erect, naked, 
from three to six inches, striated lengthways, Head of co- 
rollets aggregate, globular, white from little filaments on the 
apices of the scales of the receptacle. Calyx, common of 
five, oval leaflets, Male florets chiefly in the centre, short- 
pedicelled. Perianth, proper one-leaved, wedge-shaped, 
emarginate, placed on the inside, and inserted on the propeT 
pedicel of the corollets, gaping on the outside, and there co- 
vered by a large — dark-coloured, wedge-shaped scale, 
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