^36 CLiv. ERIOCAULE.E (brown). [Uo'iocaidon. 



female flowers pure white, 

 Lairy at the apex . . 21. JF. Teusczii. 

 §§Head9 less than 3 lin. in diam. 



Inyolucral bracts blackish, fus- 

 cous or greenish-grey. 

 Sepals of the female flowers 



dark fuscous . . 29. ^. elegantuhim. 



Sepals of the female flowers 

 " yellowish " or " pale 

 greenish-yellow." 

 Leaves 9-15 lin. long, 1-1^ 



lin. broad, 7-9-nerved. 30. H. Schlechteri, 

 Leaves 4-7 lin. long, \ lin. 

 broad, 1-nerved; heads 

 f lin. in diam. . . 34. E. gilglanum. 



Involncral- bracts pale straw- 

 , coloured or brownish-white. 



Peduncles several-ribbed ; pe- 

 tals much shorter than 

 the sepals, with a black 

 gland near the apex . 22. E. huillense. 

 Peduncles 3-5-angled as seen 

 in thin transverse sections 

 in water ; petals equal- 

 ling or exceeding the 

 sepals. 

 Petals unequal, the largest 

 |-^ lin. broad, ob- 

 lanceolate, thick, all 

 ciliate and the largest 

 with hairs on both 

 sides, glandless . . 23. E. afzelianum. 



Petals subequal, ^ lin. 

 broad, linear-cuneate, 

 thin and rather mem- 

 branous, ciliate, gla- 

 brous on both sides, 

 with or without-, a 

 minute apical gland . 27. E. Hanningtonii. 



1. E. longipetalum, Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 96. A 

 very small plant, 4 to J in. high, apparently an annual, of rosette-like 

 habit. Leaves numerous, 3-8 lin. long, not exceeding \ lin. broad at 

 the base, capillary-subulate, glabrous. Peduncles very numerous, not 

 exceeding the leaves, 2-5 lin. long, slender, subtrigonous or subquad- 

 rangular, glabrous, their sheaths nearly or quite as long, open nearly to 

 the base, acute, shortly hairy at the very base. Heads f-1 lin, in diam., 

 campanulate, whitish or greenish-white, few to about 10-flowered, with 

 1 or 2 central male flowers surrounded by females. Involucral bracts 

 I lin. long, \ lin. broad, erect, slightly exceeding the disk, oblong, obtuse 

 or minutely bifid at the apex, glabrous, slightly shining, whitish. 

 Flowering bracts similar to those of the involucre, about as long, J-J- 

 lin. broad, glabrous. Receptacle glabrous. Female flowers subsessile, 



