THE INDIAN SPECIES OF ERIOCAULON. 



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flowers of the head is much large and projects beyond the bracts giving the 

 head a fringed appearance, like that of E. longicaspis, but much less pro- 

 nounced. This feature disappears in dried specimens, but the plant is differ- 

 ent in appearing much later on in the year, on bank above the free surface of 



AKFyscn ERIOCAULOM COLLI NUM H*»k 



water, not in swamps. In the Flora of the Nilgiris and Pulney Hill tops I 

 separated two forms as new species, but a comparison of a very large number 

 induces me to reduce these again to E. coUinum Hook. f. with the assumption 

 that the female sepals may vary as between the Ceylon and the S. Indian 

 forms. 



{To be Continued) 



