200 THE JOUENAL OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



11. E. Duthiei Hook. f. (Duthie No. 8436 in Herb. Dehra 

 Dun !) F. B. I. vi 579, No. 22 ; Ruhl. No. 174. Stem O. Leaves 3/4 in. 

 long, broadly oblanceolate acute from a 1/6 in. wide base. Scapes nu- 

 merous 1 to 6 in. slender. Heads 1/6 in. Involucral bracts pale, 

 not projecting beyond the floral. Floral bracts oblong cuspidate, 

 nearly glabrous. Receptacle tall, glabrous or with a few hairs. Se- 

 pals 2 only, in both sexes. Female petals narrow, neirly glabrous. 

 Seeds oval, yellowish brown with darker markings. Male flowers. — 

 Sepals 2 ; otherwise normal, anthers black. Plate 7. 



Central Provinces, one collection only seen. 



The scapes are taller, the heads smaller and the involucres less horizontal 

 than in E. trimcatum. 



12. E. xeranthemum Mart. (Wall Cat. 6081 in Herb. Calc !) 

 F.B.I, vi 584, No. 43 ; Ruhl. No. 150 Leaves 2/3-1/2 in. Scapes slightly 

 longer or shorter. Disc of head 1/10-1/8 in. Involucral bracts much 

 longer, glistening white. Receptacle globose, floral bracts broadly 

 obovate truncate, hairy at the tip. Female sepals narrow 3 equal or 

 unequal or 2 only. Fig. opp. 



Central Himalayas, Nepal; Assam, Khasia, Peninsular India, 

 Malabar, Cochin, etc. 



Hooker in F.B.I, describes the receptacle as hairy, but wrongly. Martius 

 in Wall. Pi. As. Rar. Vol. iii says the hairiness is the only real reason for 

 distinguishing E. xeranlhemoid.es from this species. Hooker also gives the 

 sepals as 2. Koerniche in Linnaea xxvii p. 626 gives them as 3, but unequal. 

 I find both the petals and sepals of the female flowers vary in size among them- 

 selves and one sepal may be linear or absent. 



13. E. luzulaefolium Mart. (Wall. Cat. 6071 in Herb. Calc !) ; 

 F.B.I, vi 582, No. 35 in part; Ruhl. No. 131 in part. Leaves 

 2-4 in. narrowed from the 1/6 in. base, flat, many-nerved. Sheaths 

 about as long. Scapes many, 2 to 4 times as high, slender. Heads 

 1/4 in., truncate, clasped below by the light ? brown obtuse saucer 

 shaped involucre. Floral bracts dark with white hairs, making the 

 heads gray. Receptacle hairy. Sepals and petals three, narrow. 

 Plate 8. 



Central Himalayas, Nepal, Assam ; Silhet (type sheet !) ; Lr 

 Bengal ; and the Shan States. 



Hooker in F.B I. has a much wider distribution extending over all 

 India, Ruhland merely repeats this- But the sheets seen by me with that 

 name from Madras, Kanara and other parts are not the species of the 

 above quoted type. The Ceylon plant C. P. 796, so named, has none of the 

 characteristic truncate appearance of the head on a saucer-shaped involucre 

 and is E. collinum. Wallich's plant quoted above does not in fact resemble 

 E. zuinriuangulare as stated by Hooker. 



