612 MONOECiA HEXANDRiA. Leucocephttla, 



shnped, with a small round opening- at the apex ; hairy on the 

 outside. J^ectarij two filaments from the base of the corol 

 on the inside, and of about its length. Germ conical. Style 

 lenglh of the corol. Sticfmas three, woolly. 



LEUCOCEPHALA. R. 

 Flowers, male and female, aggregated in a globular head, 

 with a common calyx of five, or many leaflets, and a chafl'y 

 receptacle. Male perianth proper one-leaved. CoroUets, 

 or tube of the filaments, six-cleft ; divisions subulate, bearing 

 the anthers on their apices. Female proper perianth from 

 two to three-leaved. Corollets three-petalled. Style three- 

 cleft. Capsule superior, tricoccus. 



1 . L. graminij'olia. ft. 



Leaves ensifbrm. Common calyx five-leaved. 



Eriocaulon quinquanrfulare. Willd. i. 485. 



Ben(j. Goori. 



The figure referred to in Pluckenet, viz. t. 221. /". 7, agrees 

 well with this species, and I doubt the possibility of distin- 

 guishing it from sexancjulare 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 look- 

 ed for, such as I have ventured to give. 



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, sliort- 

 pedicelled. Perianth, proper one-leaved, wedge-shaped, 

 emarginate, placed on the inside, and inserted on the proper 

 pedicel of the corollets, gaping on the outside, and there co- 

 vered by a large chafty, dark-coloured, wedge-shaped scale, 



