190 CXL. ERIOCAULED. 
imbricate bracts, the tips of the stigmatic branches and sometimes the 
anthers slightly protruding, the receptacle often hairy. 
The Order is limited in the Old World to the single genus Eriocaulon, but em 
are a few other genera, and one a very large one exclusively American and chiefly 
tropical. 
l. ERIOCAULON, Linn. 
The genus extends over the general area of the Order, but chiefly in the ^en 
World, er. Of the nineteen Australian spes 
four extend into tropical Asia, the remaining fifteen, as far as hitherto tuens 
appear to be endemie, some of them however require further study from more pe 
specimens, 
Series I.— Flowers 3-merous or rarely partially 2-merous by abortion, especially - 
females, 
Submerged stems elongated, densely covered with fili- 
form leaves. Flower-heads pubescent, at least at 
pos d WoW M Werl qp ce RUE eudanin. 
Scapes and radical leaves above 1 ft. long, loosely hairy 
towards the base Flower-heads pubescent. Outer 
perianth-segments winge Eau mw 2 cu l-rrd Je MEN 
gusce and eines leaves under 6 in. and often much 
us, 
ess, glabrous, 
Flower-heads pubescent. Bracts with their tips in- 
; — ed and appressed. Outer perianth-segments 
no 
Flowering bracts Spathulate, acuminate, the ex- 
white with the dorsal pubescence . 3. E. quinquangulart- 
fringed o: 
Flowering broad, vi obtuse 
ith very short hue. igen ase T 4, E. Smithii. 
Flower-heads glabrous. Bracts with their tips in- 
curved and appressed. 
Outer 9 per. segments, linear, 3 or fewer or none. 
Outer d per. segments united in a spatha-like 
