CXLT. ERIOCAULACE^. 851 



obtuse, ciliate, gland-bearing. Anthers black. Female flowers : Sepals obovate, 

 acute, keeled, ciliate, grey, subequal. Petals narrowly oblong, gland-bearing, ciliate. 

 The above is Ruhland's description. 



Kanaka: Dharwar and Bellary district {Saw. according to Ruhland, but probably a 

 misprint for Law). I have seen no specimens ; there are none in Herb. Kew. 



ERIOCAULON ROUXIANUM, Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. part 2 (1855) p. 270. Stemless. 

 Leaves 1-lJ in. long from a broad base, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, 9-11-nerved, 

 subpellucid, twice as long as the tumid sheaths, which are whitish, submembrauous, 

 entire or 2-fid at the apex. Heads |^ in. in diam., snowy-villous ; involucral bracts 

 longer than the heads, herbaceous, erect, linear-oblong, obtuse, entire ; floral bracts 

 ovate, subobtuse, ciliate at the apex. Koern. in Linnjea, v. 27 (1856) p. 626 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 316; Ruhl. in Engler, Pflanzenreich, v. 4, part 30 (1903) p. 116. Collected 

 in Bombay by Polydore Roux {fide Steudel). Koernicke, who has not seen any 

 specimens, considers the species somewhat doubtful and, as far as may be judged from 

 the meagre description, to approach near to E. Thwaitesii, an identification which 

 Ruhland considers doubtful. 



Dalzell, who has collected and described many of the Bombay Eriocaulons, has 

 seen neither this plant nor E. heterolcpis. There are no specimens in Herb. Kew. 

 Roux's specimens, collected in Bombay in 1832, are said to be in Delessert's Herbarium 

 (Lasegue, in Deless. Mus. Bot. (1845) p. 156). 



E.YCLUDBD Species. 



ERIOCAULON- HETEHOLEPIS, Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. part 2 (1855) p. 271. Stem- 

 less, tufted. Leaves lanceolate from a broad base, subobtuse. Involucral bracts 2- 

 seriate, scarious, the exterior oblong-lanceolate, deciduous, the interior ovate, obtuse, 

 much shorter than the head; floral bracts cuneate-ovate. Sepals linear, ciliate at the 

 apex. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 585 ; Koern. in Liunaa, v. 27 (1856) p. 652 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 316; Ruhl. in Engler, Pflanzenreich, v. 4, part 30, p. 74. 



Plant collected by Polydore Roux near Bombay {fide Steudel). The species depends 

 altogether on the description by Steudel, who may or may not have had Roux's 

 specimens. Koernicke states {I. c.) that he has seen no specimens of the plant and 

 considers the species a very doubtful one which may have been described under anotlier 

 name, but, curiously enough, he has made a variety to this doubtful species in Miq. 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. v. 3 (,1867) p. 239, which he names var. nigricans, a Java plant, 

 which he fully describes. Ruhland {I. c.) copies Koernicke's description of the Java 

 plant (var. nigricans), and assigns it to E. heterolepis as a typical description of that 

 species. 



ERIOCAUZON EURTPEPLON. Koern. in Linnsea, v. 27 (1856) p. 685; Hook. f. Fl, 

 B. I. V. 6, p. 585; Ruhl. in Eugler, Pflanzenreich, v. 4, part 30 (1903) p. 104. 



KcBrnicke gives " East Indies " as the habitat of the plant which is stated to have 

 been collected by Huegel no. 1886 (Hb. Vindob. et Zuccarini), no precise locality 

 having been mentioned. Ruhland {I. c.) gives East Indies, Malabar, Konkan, &c. as 

 the habitat, and Stocks, Huegel, &c. as the collectors, but there is no mention of the 

 whereabouts of the specimens said to have been collected by Stocks. None of these 

 are to be found in Herb. Kew., and as Stocks almost invariably sent his collections to 

 the Kew Herbarium, I think it probable that Ruhland has made a mistake in his 

 citation. There is, as far as I know, no evidence of the existence of the species in the 

 Bombay Presidency. 



Obdbe CXLVI. CYPERACE^. 



Perennial (rarely annual) herbs with the habit of grasses ; roots 

 fibrous ; stem terete or 3-angled, usually simple. Leaves grass-like, 

 (rarely 0), 3-ranked, mostly crowded at the base of the stem (the upper 

 fewer), with tubular sheaths which are more or less closed or the lower 

 split to the base ; ligule or a short prolongation of the mouth of the 



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