THE INDIAN SPECIES OF ERIOCAULON. 



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Stem O. Leaves 3-5 in. by 1/3-1/2 in. at the base, many nerved, 

 glabrous. Scapes several, 10-15 in., slender, glabrous. Heads 1/2 in. 

 nearly globose, white ; involucral bracts black, reflexed. Receptacle 

 glabrous. Floral bracts acute. Female flr :— Sepals 2 boat shaped, 1 

 fiat ; petals longer, broadly oblanceolate or spathulate, with large 

 glands, and protruding beyond the floral bracts. Male flower normal, 

 petals with large glands. Plate 3. 



Upper Burma and Shan Hills. 

 Hooker in F.B.I, placed the species among those with the male petal lon- 

 ger than the others and protruding beyond the bracts, possibly (if the plants 

 taken above as this species are correctly so named) deceived by the very 

 similar appearance of the female petals on the outside of the head. But the 

 male petals are quite equal, and in other respects this appears to belong to 

 this section. 



5. E. barba-caprae Fyson, sp. nov. (Collett at Shillong 10/10/90 

 in Herb. Gale.) Caulis paulum elongatus et divisus hence plantae 

 dense caespitosae. Folia 5-8 cm. longa, basi valde dilatata, linearia, 

 acuta, Pedunculi plures, circe 10 cm. Capitulla 6 mm. Receptaculum 



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