ERIOCAULON. | ERIOCAULACEH., 319 
subacute, pale or dark, usually with a dark central band and narrow 
scarious margins. Male calyx spathaceous, limb ovate, acute, irre- 
gularly tridentate; petals very minute; anthers white. Female 
sepals 3, 2 or 0, narrow; petals 0; style long, stigmas 3, filiform, 
Dehra Dun (Duthie, etc.) abundant in rice fields, Saharanpur, Morada- 
bad (Thomson), Dholpur (Jameson), Shahjahanpur (Duthie). 
Distris.: Throughout India, China, Japan. 
2. E. trilobum, Buch. Ham. ex Koern, in Linnea XX VII (1856) 
645; F. B. I. vi, 583 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1127 ; Cooke Fl, Bomb. 
it, 848 ; Ruhland, l. c. 74; Fyson, Journ. Ind. Bot. II, 206, t. 10. 
E. Sollyanum, Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. (1839) 409, t. 97. f. 1. 
Stem 0. Leaves 1-3 by ;'5-+ in. linear ensiform, not red when dry. Scapes 
3-8 in. high; heads 4-} in. diam. globose, blackish grey, somewhat 
white villous; bracts oblong, obtuse, glabrous, pale brown, at first 
radiating beyond the head ultimately reflexed ; receptacle columnar, 
villous. Floral bracts narrowly obovate-cuneate, obtuse or acute but 
not acuminate, blackish-green with short white hairs on the back, 
Male calyx with the 3 sepals connate to about the middle in a spathe ; 
petals stipitate, minute; anthers black. Female sepals obovate- 
oblong, boat-shaped, more or less keeled, with white hairs on the 
back; petals narrowly linear-spathulate ; style divided half way 
down into 3 filiform branches. 
‘Shahjahanpur (Duthie 4476, mixed with EF. Sieboldianum) Lalitpur 
(Duthie 7049). Throughout India from Dharamsala to Bengal and 
south to Malabar; Madagascar, Zanzibar. 
Norr.—Under the Vienna Conference rules the name for this plant 
should be E. Sollyanum, Royle, but I have thought it better to adhere 
to the name used in Ruhland’s Monograph and all Indian floras, 
8. E. quinquangulare, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. (1747) 48 ; F. B. I. vi, 582; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1127 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 849; Ruhland, l. ¢. 
85 ; Fyson, Journ. Ind, Bot. ti, 204, t. 9. 
Stem short or 0. Leaves 1-4 by +,-¢ in. linear ensiform, usually reddish 
when dry. Scapes numerous 3-8 in. high; heads ,-} in. diam. 
globose or somewhat ovoid, densely white villous; bracts obovate 
or cuneate, obtuse, glabrous, pale straw-coloured, ultimately re- 
flexed; receptacle globose or columnar, villous. floral bracts 
similar to the involucral but narrower and long acuminate, light or 
dark brown. Male calyx spathaceous, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, 
