318 THE JOURNAL OP INDIAN BOTANY. 



boatshaped and enlarged down tho back. Soods oblong, quite smooth. 

 Petals 3, linear-lanceolate, unequal. Plate 38. 



Peninsular India; N. Mysore; Kanara, at sea-level, Malabar, 

 and Concan. 



The leaves make this a very distinct spocios. 



Var. bracteata, (Talbot. No. 639 in Ilorb. Calc !) Involucral 

 bracts longer than the head. 



43. E. sexangulare Linn. (Wall. Cat. 6068 in Herb. Calc !) ; 

 F.B.I, vi, 580, No. 29 ; Euhl. No. 186, and E. longifolium Neos., Ruhl. 

 No. 25 ; Stem 0. Leaves 1/8 to 3/4 in. wide by 4-12 in., many ribbed, 

 flat. Scapes many up to 18 in., stiff. Heads 1/3 in. or less, hemis- 

 pherical or conical with eventually a truncate base. Involucral bracts 

 pale, shining. Floral bracts broadly obovate, cuspidate. Flowers 3- 

 merous or 2-merous. Female sepals two very boat-shaped, one flat 

 or absent. Petal linear, with long hairs springing from its base, the 

 whole forming a brush of slender filaments. Seeds flat ovate or sub- 

 globose with parallel darker lines, and covered with peltate hairs. 

 Plates 39 and 40. 



On the western side of South India down to Ceylon, and through- 

 out Burma and the Malay Peninsula. 



The plants of the Western peninsula are larger on the whole than those 

 of the Eastern, which are frequently 2-merous. In the F.B.I, the latter is 

 given as a variety and perhaps it should be so considered, but in every other 

 respect the two forms are identical and it would always be necessary to dis- 

 sect the heads to determine the point. The Mysore plants connect them. 

 For this reason the separation of these forms as two distinct species, E. sex- 

 angulare L. & E. longifolium Nees, widely apart in different sections of 

 the genus as is done by Ruhland seems particularly unhappy. Koerniche 

 though he separated the American 2-merous species, placed these two to- 

 gether observing that the 2-merous flowers and acute not shortly acuminate 

 floral bracts distinguish them. 



44. E. Thomasi. Fyson sp. nov. (Meobold 9104 et 9899 in Herb. 

 Calc ! ) Habitu specii E. Thioaitcsii Hook. f. similis, sed capitulum 

 globosum, involucrum reflexum, sepala duo. Caulis per-brevis. Folia 

 caespitosa, lancoolata acuta, mucronata, glabra, 5-10 cm. longa, 0.4 to 

 J..0 cm. lata. Pedunculi paulo ad duplico longiores, glabri ; sub-capi- 

 tulo paulo crassi. Capitula globosa. Bractae involucrantes brevae, 

 reflexae. Bractae flores superantes rhomboidocuneata summodorso 

 puberulae. Flos. -?• sepala 2, naviculari-concava ; petala 3, angus- 

 tissima linearia, longis pilosis barbata magnis glandulis instructa. 

 Semina, oblonga, fusca. Flos o sepala 2, angusta ; petala 3 ; antherae 

 nigrae. Plate 41. 



