THE INDIAN SPECIES OF EEIOCAULON. 



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I have seen only the one specimen quoted above. The sepals are large, 

 Ruhland says of the species that they are flat and concave only at the tips, 

 but those of the specimen seen by me are quite boat-shaped for the whole 

 length. 



9. E. truncatum Ham. ; F.B.I, vi 578, No. 24 ; 

 Euhl. No. 178 Leaves usually 1-3 in. flat, narrowed 

 from the base. Scapes several. Heads hemispheric. 

 Involucre horizontal, scarious, not or hardly projec- 

 ting beyond the head. Keceptacle glabrous. Floral 

 bracts very obtuse, nearly glabrous. Female sepals 

 narrow, 2 boat-shaped, toothed at the apex, and third 

 sepal if present acute ; or 2 only. Petals 3 narrow. 



Bengal, Assam, North Burma and southwards to 

 Malacca ; S. India and Ceylon. 



Var. a vera, Tipperah, Mts. of Monghir. 



This I take to be the true species, for Mart, in Wall. 

 As. Rar. iii, p. 29 describes the flower as having a third 

 sepal. Eut Koerniche in Linnaea xxvii, p. 633, Hooker in 

 F.B.I. I.e. and Ruhl. I.e. both give the commoner 2-sepalled 

 flower of the next variety. 



Var b di-sepala. Female sepals 2, otherwise as 

 in the type. The wider distribution given for the 

 species. 



For a similar variation in the female sepals see 

 E. Thiuaitesii, Koern. 



Two sheets in Herb. Calc. unfortunately without 

 precise locality but odo marked C. India, are similar in 

 many respects, but the floral bracts are cuneate acute, not 

 rounded. The female sepals vary in the same head, 3 

 equally boatshaped or one linear, or two only. Except for the glabrous 

 receptacles these plants might be E. Dianae. (No. 20). 



10. E. Trimeni Hook, f . (Bambulla Ek. 1881 in Herb. Ceylon !) 

 Fl. Ceylon, 1900, v p. 8 ; Euhl. p. 117, " incognita". Scapes 1/2-2 

 in. leaves 1/3-1/4 in. narrow to linear. Heads 1/10-1/8 in. Involucral 

 bracts hyaline, as long or slightly longer than the floral, sub-erect. 

 Floral bracts cunately oblong or obovate. Eeceptacle glabrous. Male 

 flowers, sepalse3, but 2 connate; sta 6 (not ]). Female flowers, 

 normal ; seeds glistening yellow, smooth. 



Ceylon. 

 Hooker I.e. compared this with E. Sieboldianum, but the black anthers 

 and flatter head sufficiently distinguish it. Hooker also in error described 

 the male flowers as having only one stamen. There are 6 quite clearly in 

 the plant quoted above. It was referred to E. truncatum Ham. by Trimen, 

 and though differing in its flower and in the involucre being less horizontal 

 is clearly allied to that species. 



VARIATION IN 

 FEMALE SEPALS. 



Taken from a 

 sheet of E. trun- 

 catum Ham. mark 

 ed47. D.Barclay, 

 C. India, 1870. 



