212 CLiv. Eii[ocAULE.« (buown). [Eriocuulon. 



21-31 in. long, loose, obtusely bifid at the apex, glabrous. Heads 

 8-4 lin. in diam., depressed-globose, monoecious, often viviparous, 

 the flowering part fuscous. Involucral-bracts 1^-1 f lin. long, 

 |-1J lin. broad, orbicular or broadly obovate, very obtuse, glabrous, 

 submembranous, whitish or whitish -brown. Flowering- bracts IJ lin. 

 long, ^ lin. or less broad, oblanceolate or subspathulate, acute or sub- 

 acute, glabrous, thin, incurved, fuscous in the lower part, whitish in 

 the apical part, or some of them fuscous above the middle, with the 

 basal half and just the apex whitish. Receptacle glabrous. Female 

 flowers shortly pedicellate. Sepals 3, more or less unequal, about 1 lin. 

 long, ;|-J lin. broad, obovate or more or less boat-shaped, obtuse or 

 irregularly denticulate at the apex, dark fuscous, with a very few 

 scattered hairs on the back (not quite glabrous, as originally described). 

 Petals 3, arising close to the sepals, J-1 lin. long, i-i lin. broad, 

 cuneate-linear or cuneate-oblong, obtuse, white, bearded on the apical 

 part of the inner surface w4th white hairs, and with a black gland just 

 below the apex. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 3, free or more or 

 less combined, about 1 lin. long, ^-^ lin. broad, cuneate or cuneate- 

 oblong, obtuse or denticulate at the apex, glabrous in some flowers, and 

 with a few white hairs on the back in others, dark fuscous. Stipes 

 between the sepals and petals J-J lin. long. Petals ^-J lin. long, 

 oblong, whitish, bearded with white hairs on the inner face at the apex 

 and with black linear subapical glands. Anthers white (not dark, as 

 originally described). 



Zioiver Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in the cold rapid mountain streams of 

 Morro de LopoUo, 3800-5800 ft., Welwitsch, 2458 ! 



According to the notes with Welwitsch's specimen, this plant forms a green carpet 

 on the beds of the streams under the water, and rarely flowers, the heads being 

 frequently viviparous, when their peduncles bend down and produce young plants, 

 forming the so-called stolons. It is allied to E. Woodii, N. E, Br., from Natal. 



10. E. Antunesii) Engl, d- Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 76. 

 Leaves 2 in. long, J lin. broad, linear, acute, 3-onerved, glabrous. 

 Flowering peduncle solitary, viviparous peduncles clustered, up to 7J in. 

 long, J lin. thick, with sheaths rather longer than the leaves, glabrous. 

 Heads 4J-5 lin. in diam., globose, villous, grey. Involucral-bracts 

 nearly orbicular, glabrous, whitish, shining. Flowering-bracts IJ-lJ 

 lin. long, \ lin. broad, linear-oblong or lanceolate, acute, fuscous, slightly 

 hairy on the back. Female flowers external. Sepals 3, subequal, 1 lin. 

 long, J lin. broad, deeply boat-shaped, with a rather large marginal 

 tooth on one or both sides below the acuminate apex, blackish, sparsely 

 furnished with white hairs. Petals 3, equal, 1 lin. long, J lin. broad, 

 linear-oblong, cuneate towards the base, obtuse, white, with a black 

 gland near the apex, ciliate and slightly bearded on the inner face at 

 the apex only. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 3, free, |-1 lin. long, 

 \-^ lin. broad, one of them narrower than the others, cuneate-obovate, 

 truncate and minutely denticulate at the apex, blackish, sparsely ciliate 

 and with here and there a hair on the back. Petals unequal, \-^^ lin. 



