2?)S CLiv. ERiocAULEiE (brown). [JtJriocttulon. 



the mouth, rather loose-fitting, glabrous. Heads about 2 lin. in diam., 

 hemispherical, monoecious, with the sexes somewhat intermingled. 

 Involucral bracts much longer than the flowering part of the head, 

 radiating, 1 J-2J lin. long, |-f lin. broad, lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 

 thin, light straw-coloured." Flowering bracts 1 lin. long, I lin. broad, 

 oblong-oblanceolate, acute, concave, with a few white hairs on the back 

 or almost glabrous, faintly fuscous- tinted on the apical part. Receptacle 

 densely covered with whitish hairs that are about as long as the flowers. 

 Female flowers pedicellate. Sepals 8, equal, | lin. long, scarcely i lin. 

 broad, linear, subacute, glabrous, whitish or faintly fuscous-tinted on 

 the apical part. Stipes between the sepals and petals ^ lin. long. 

 Petals 3, unequal, J-f lin. long, about as broad as the sepals, cuneate- 

 linear, subobtuse, whitish, sparingly ciliate and with a few white hairs 

 on the inner face, glandless. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals more or 

 less united into a narrowly funnel-shaped body J lin. long, deeply cleft 

 on one side, dent^iculate at the apex, fuscous, glabrous. Stipes between 

 the sepals and petals -J-J lin. long. Petals obsolete, or one of them 

 represented by a very minute lobule, ciliate with a few hairs. Anthers 

 dark fuscous, not exceeding the calyx. Seeds ellipsoid, about J lin. 

 long, very minutely reticulate with microscopic whitish papillae. — 

 Euhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 84. 



Upper 6-uinea. Niger Territory : Borgu ; in the drier part of a swampy pond 

 near Fakun, .Barter, 778 ! 



4. E. Volkensii, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 133. Dwarf and stem- 

 less. Leaves 1-1 J in. long, 2-4 lin, broad, flat, linear-lanceolate, obtuse 

 or acute, many-nerved, tessellately cross- veined, densely woolly on both 

 sides in the sheathing part, otherwise glabrous. Peduncles shorter 

 than the leaves, 1-1 J in- long, moderately stout, about J lin. thick, 

 3-angled, thinly pilose at the base, their sheaths about \ in. long, thin, 

 acute, open nearly to the base, glabrous, embedded in the wool of the 

 leaves. Flower-heads 2-2 J lin. in diam., subglobose, monoecious, with 

 the outer flowers female. Involucre campanulate, its bracts IJ-lJ Hn. 

 long, 1-lJ lin. broad, orbicular or subquadrate, very obtuse, glabrous, 

 light straw-coloured. Flowering-bracts IJ-lJ lin. long, f lin. broad, 

 cuneate-obovate, acute, minutely ciliate, straw-coloured or faintly 

 fuscous, very thinly pubescent with white hairs on the apical part. 

 Receptacle glabrous. Female flowers subsessile. Sepals 3, subequal, 

 1-lJ lin, long, \-\ lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, concave, membranous, 

 whitish, becoming pale fuscous with age, bearded on the apical part 

 with white hairs. Petals 1-lJ lin. long, i lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, white, pubescent on the face, with a black linear gland near the 

 apex; ovary trigonous, glabrous; style deeply trifid. — Ruhland in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 82. 



lIKozaxnb. Bist. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, on Kibo peak, 1100 ft., 

 Volkens, 2032 ! on the north side of Kilimanjaro, near the Yumba-ya-Nguaro Cave, 

 Volkens (ex Eriffler), in a damp depression near the Noholu Cave, Volkens, 2032 (ex 

 Suhland). 



