Eriocaulon.] CXL. ERIOCAULEJE. 197 
faleate, concave but not winged, rather rigid, attached below the 
middle of the stipes but v very dec vocac inner segments erect, 
hyaline, very narrow linear. Ovary 2-mero 
ur Australia. Sources of the Limmen Bight river, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. 
ueller, 
l7. E. scariosum, R. Br. Prod. 255. —Scapes a striate, 3 
to 5 in. long. Leaves thick at the base, tapering t a fine point, 
about 1 in. lon Flower-heads of a light pet olan soon 
becoming Daia, not above 2 lines diameter., Bracts orbicular, all 
scarious and glabrous, a few outer ones very obt d empty, the 
obtuse an | 
flowering ones shortly mucronate, the receptacle villous with long 
hairs. Male flower: Outer i e 
Outer 
enis 2, faleate, concave or complicate with a broad dac wing ; 
segments 2, erect, oval-oblong or obovate, denticulate at the end, 
shortly contracted at the base into a claw. Ovary 2-merous 
N. Australia. North coast? R. Brown (no label in his herbarium); Port 
Darwin, Se Schultz, a. 261, 
18. E. fistulosum, R. Br. Prod, 255. —Evidently very near 
E. scariosum and most robably a variety only, with longer leaves, 
"ipi more than half the scape, and the outer perianth- sei aaa 
e male flowers very narrow. I can find no other differe 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander. 
, 19. E. de epressum, Z. Br. Prod. 255.— Scapes rigid, striate, 2 to 4 
in. long, Leaves as in E. scariosum rather thiek at the base, tapering to 
a fine point, short in many specimens (the longer ones having uev 
away ? bá cape. 
35 -heads pale-coloured, depressed-globular or hemispherical, ied 
lines diameter when fully out. Bracts all orbicular, a few outer ones 
al rigid and very obtuse, the others thinner and mue eronulate, but 
flowering, ower: Outer perianth-segments wanting; inner 
Opens reduced to 2 small teeth. Stamens 4. Female flower: 
uter segments in me flowers of the outer rows 2, faleate, concave or 
aplicate with a bro. cà dorsal wing, more or less connate, deficient in 
QS inner ro ws of flowers; inner segments T abori te or oblong. 
DT 2-merous,— F, JU iui, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 93. 
nt i Brown; near M‘Adam 
a, Pi gia nl the 2 of Carpentaria, 
5 deustum, P. Br. Prod. 255.—Very near E. depressum and 
EU ` xm frio only in its small iios and the very du 
Sigh black co of its scapes and flower-heads. sl to 2 = 
» Scarcely end the esum Flower-heads and ^um of the 
me tid s structure of those of Æ. depressum, the outer obtuse rather 
