194 CXL. ERIOCAULEJ. [ Eriocaulon. 
The species extends to South China, and will probably be found in various ge 
chipelago and perhaps in East India. It is nearly allied to t ih 
common Æ, sexangulare, but may be readily distinguished by the male flowers wi 
8. 
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Male flower: Outer erianth-segments 2, narrow, free 
very small or one iis longer and fringed. Stamens 3, rarely 4 or5; 
anthers dark-coloured. Female flower: Outer segments 2 or 3, linear, 
at the base of the stipes ; inner segments 3, linear, erect and appressed 
to the ovary, slightly fringed. Ovary 3-celled. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, 
E. pallidum, R. Br. Prod. 954.— Leaves in the few specimens 
seen broadly linear, 1 to 13 in. long, tapering to a fine point. Be 
about as long. Flower-heads all very young except one which is neary 
globular, something like those of Æ. lividum, but smaller, the bracts 
all obtuse, scarious, glabrous and rather shining. Male flower: uter 
m : 
erect, ciliate. Ovary 3-merous, 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander. T have not been able to 
examine the flowers satisfactorily. 
. E. nigricans, R. Br. Prod. 254.—Seapes filiform, 1 to 2 or ram 
3 in. long. Leaves shorter, sometimes ve short, narrow-linear, tape 
ing to a long fine point 
obtuse or almost acute. Male flowe 
linear, slightly dilated in the middle, all free; inner segments very 
small and glabrous or scarcely prominent Stamens 6. Female flower : 
Outer perianth-segments 1, 2, or 3, linear, at the base of the stipe?» 
inner Mandel none. Ovary 3-merous.— E. achiton, Korn. in Linn®% 
xxvii. 630. 
N. Australia? Carron Creek, Carpentaria, Gulliver, the identification doubt 
c Endeavour River, Banks and Solander; various localities 1n it 
neighbourhood of Rockhampton, Bowman, 0’ Shanesy ; Dry-beef Creek, Leichhardt- 
In the Banksian spec f d ve 
scales, but that appears to he owing to the plants being rather old gw the larg 
i i in East In 
