Erioeaulon.] CXL. ERIOCAULER. 198 
usually about 1 in. long. Flower-heads soon glo ; outer br = 
ovate, glabrous, at first very conspicuous but almost con under 
the 8; flowering bracts thin, obovate, scarcely acuminate, 
ale flower : outer perianth-segments 3, oblong-li ear, contracted at 
the base and more or less connate at first, slightly hairy at the tips ; 
inner segments small, fringed. Stamens 6. Female flower: Mein 
segments dark-coloured, oblong-spathulate, concave, incurved, one o 
them often deficient ; inner segments erect, linear-oblong, fringed 
and hairy at the end with a small gland as in the males. Ovary 
3-merous, 
y egeensland. Moreton Bay, F. Mueller; Cape River, Bowman; Springsure, 
uth, 
N. es. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls, and 
many others; Hastings River, Beckler. 
ia. Upper Murray River, F. Mueller. 
unequal, erect, denticulate, with a small gland. Ovary 3-merous 
p Queensland. Facing Island, Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Brisbane River, 
ailey, 
» acute or acuminate with appressed tips, contracted at the 
base, I O n an orb 
ents small, | 
3, Tarely 4 
a 
anceolate, fringed, with small glands. Stamens usually 
r5; 
nner segments deficient. Ovar - or 3-celled.— E. 
i gg "^um, Benth. tr. Hongk. 382; E. ciliiflorwm, F. Muell. Fragm. 
LN: Australia arpentaria, R. Brown ; South Goulburn 
Tang 4 Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; So 3 | 
- Cunningham ; Victoria River, P. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Sos n. 368. 
L vir 
