Eriocaidon.] 



CLIV. ERIOCAULE^ (bROWN). 



2:^>3 



Flowering-bracts with a transverse fuscous band 

 near the apex ; sepals of the female flowers 

 fuscous ....... 



Flowering bracts and sepals of the female flowers 

 entirely straw-coloured .... 



Female flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals. 



Peduncles shorter than or about equalling the 



leaves. (See also 6, U. hifistulosum and 31, 



E. suhulatum.) 



Plant 1^-2 in. high ; involucral-bracts light 



straw-coloured ..... 



Plant 5-7 in. high ; involucral-bracts fuscous, 

 darker towards the apex .... 



Peduncles longer than the leaves, usually 2 to 

 many times as long. (In 31, E. suhulatum, 

 the peduncles are not much longer thsin the 

 leaves, which is sometimes the case in 12, 

 E. Schimperi, and in 6, E. hifistulosum, 

 they are sometimes shorter than the leaves.) 

 -•^Flowering-bracts glabrous and not ciliate; 

 heads glabrous to the eye. (See also 26, 

 E. zamhesiense, in which the outer flower- 

 ing-bracts are nearly or quite glnbrous, 

 and 13, E. mesanihemoides, 30, E. Schlech- 

 teri and 34, E. gilgianum, in which they 

 are described as somewhat glabrous, 

 " glabriusculis.") 

 iSepals of the female flowers glabrous and not 

 ciliate. (See also ff and fff, where the 

 hairs may easily be overlooked unless 

 sufficiently magnified.) 

 .j Receptacle pilose. (In 35, E. dbyssinicum, 

 the receptacle appears to have here and 

 there a hair, but is scarcely pilose.) 

 Leaves ^-2| (usually more than 1) lin. 

 broad. 

 Heads yellowish-white or light straw- 

 coloured, 2|-3 lin. in diara.; 

 sepals of the female floweis all 

 filiform . . . . . 



Heads blackish or brown, 1^2^^ lin. 



in diam. 



Lateral sepals of the female flowers 



shortly acute or obtuse, very 



gibbous-keeled ; heads exactly 



globose . . . . 



Lateral sepals of the female flowers 



acuminate, almost awned, jjib- 



bous-keeled; heads somcwliat 



truncate at the base 



Heads pinkish-buff or deep tawny, 



1^2iin. indiam. ; lateral sepals 



ot the female flowers obliquely 



obtriangular, deeply hooded, 



slightly gibbous-keeled 



24. 



25. 



E. plumale. 

 E. aenegalense. 



E. Volkensii. 

 E. Thunhergii. 



16. E. hongense. 



E. Bvchanani. 



18. E. andongense. 



19. E.fulxmm. 



