318 ERIOCAULACEA. | ERIOCAULON. 
elongate stipes or corclla-tube; stamens 6 or fewer, some often 
reduced to filaments, anthers dorsifixed ; pistillode minute or 0. 
Female flowers: sepals 2-3, usually free, caducous; petals 3, 
rarely 2 or 0, persistent, spathulate or oblanceolate, usually ciliate 
or villous and with a black gland; ovary free 3-, rarely 2-celled, 
ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous, orthotropous, style 1, stigmas 
3-2, slender, with sometimes interposed lobes or appendages. 
Fruit a membranous loculicidal capsule, testa coriaceous, striolate 
and often papillose, embryo outside the floury albumen. Genera 
9, species 550, mainly tropical. 
ERIOCAULON, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 571. 
Petals free in both sexes. Stamens twice as many as petals 
(or fewer by abortion). Species over 200, tropical and subtropical 
Anthers white; heads glabrous . 1. EZ. Steboldianum. 
Anthers black. 
Heads more or less villous. 
Involucral bracts obtuse. 
Heads 4-4 in. diam. floral 
bracts not acuminate; 
female sepals boat-shaped 2. LZ. trilobum. 
Heads =-} in. diam. floral 
bracts long acuminate; 
female sepals very narrow 3. EH. quinquangulare. 
Involucral bracts acute . . 4. E. pseudoquinquangulare. 
Heads glabrous : ; . 5. EB. Hamilionianum. 
1. E. Sieboldianum, Sieb. et Zucc. ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. II 
(1855) 272; F. B. I. vi, 577; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1127 ; Cooke, Fl, 
Bomb. ii, 845 ; Collett, Fl. Siml. 549, t. 180. Ruhland in Pflanzenr. 
IV, 30, p. 111, fig. 15 A-G. ; Fyson Journ, Ind. Bot, III, 15 t. 50, 
61, 
Annual. Leaves }-2 in. long, narrowly linear, subulate or setaceous. 
Scapes 14-5 in. high, slender; heads 34-3 in. diam. globose or ovoid, 
glabrous, pale or sometimes purplish; bracts glabrous, scarious, 
obtuse, shorter than the heads; receptacle columnar, glabrous or 
nearly so. Floral bracts similar to the involucral but narrower and 
