30 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Pate: 1342. 
ERIOSPORA PILOSA, Benth. 
Cyrprrace®, Tribe Scuerten. 
E. pilosa, Benth, MS.—Trilepis pilosa, Boeckel. in Linnea, xxxix. 10. 
Has. West tropical Africa. On high rocks where water stands 
during the rains at Nupe on the Niger, Butler, n, 1560. 
Rhizoma longe repens, vaginis imbricatis foliorim vetustioram dense 
obtectum. Caules erecti, 3-quetri, 1-2-pedales. Folia 
ters of the above two, as a Cu 
appears to me not to have the slightest affinity. chimper’s n. 1262, 
from Abyssinia, appears to be a fourth species, allied to, but distinct 
from, the original H. abyssinica.—G. Benruan. 
« Fig 1. Spikelet; 
2. Outer glume.. 3. Inner glume with a male flower. 4. 
Female flower, , 
rpha, a genus with which it | 
