Eriocaulon.] cliv. ERiocAULEiE (brown). 24 ?> 



long, ^-J lin. broad, white, ciliate and bearded on the inner face with 

 white hairs, and v/ith a black gland near the apex. Anthers white. 

 X>ower Guinea. Angola: RwiWn, Antunes, IS9 I 



11. H, latlfolivLxa^ Smith in Rees, Ci/clop. xni. Stemless. Leaver 

 all radical, 2-8 or more in. long, 1-4 lin. broad, linear, subacute or 

 somewhat obtu.-e, flat, thin, many-nerved, glabrous. Peduncles 1-0 to 

 a plant, 5-12 in. long, f-1 lin. thick, 7-ribbed, glabrous, their basal 

 sheaths 2-4 in. long, oblique at the mouth, acute, glabrous. Heads 

 monoecious, with the male flowers in the centre, 3-4 lin. in diam., 

 hemispherical or subglobose, white-villous. Involucral-bracts in 4-.') 

 series, glabrous, entire, light brown; innermost 1-1;^ lin. long, h lin. 

 broad, obovate-oblong, obtuse; outermost orbicular often broader^thnn 

 long. Flowering-bracts about 1 lin. long, J-J lin. broad, linear- 

 oblanceolate or cuneate-oblong, acute, light brownish or fuscous, densely 

 bearded with white hairs on the apical part. Receptacle glabrous. 

 Female flowers very numerous, pedicellate. Sepals 3, subequal, j-l lin. 

 long, ^-^ lin. broad, oblong or cuneate-oblong, boat-shaped, obtuse, 

 very pale brownish-white, hyaline, bearded with long white hairs on 

 the apical part. Petals arising slightly above the sepals, -J lin. long, 

 very narrow, linear, obtuse, whitish, hyaline, rather densely benrded 

 with long white hairs, glandless or one of them witii a very minute 

 black gland at the apex. Ovary trigonous; style trifid to § the way 

 down. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 3, free, J lin. long, linear, 

 obtuse, whitish, densely bearded with white hairs. Stipes between the 

 sepals and petals J lin. long. Petals ^ lin, long or less, oblong, obtuse, 

 whitish, densely fringed with white hairs, and with a black gland just 

 below the apex. Anthers white. Capsule J lin. in diam. Seeds 

 ellipsoid, apiculate, brown. — Britten in Journ. Bot. 1900, 482. 

 E.rividare,Qf. Don ex Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 5 47; Koernicke in 

 Linnaea, xxvii. 666 ; Durand k Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 503 ; 

 Buhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 75. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : in a rivulet near Vatemba Hoiul, Barter ! in a 

 rivulet near Freetown, Don! and williout precise loculity, Vogel ! 



In the original description the sepals of the male flower^* are stated to be conuHte 

 into a 3-lobed tube, but in all ^he flowers I have dissect ctl they are free. 



12. E. Schimperi, Koernicke ex Engl, Hochgehirgsjl. Trop. Afr. 

 154. A robust stemless plant. Leaves in a radical rosette, numerous, 

 3^_7 in. long, 3-5 lin. broad, flit, broadly linear, obtuse and slightly 

 thickened at the apex, many -nerved, glabrous. Peduncles 1-3 to a 

 plant in the specimens seen, 7-14 in. long, |-| lin. thick, about 8-ribbed, 

 glabrous ; their basal sheaths 3|-4 in. long, loose, somewhat obtuse, 

 with a very oblique mouth, glabrous. Flower-heads 4-5 lin. in diam., 

 globose, moncecious, with the outer flowers female. Involucral-bracts 

 in 2-3 series, 1-J lin. long, |-1 lin. broad, oblong or somewhat obovate- 

 oblong, acute, gla>)rous, light fuscous, the innermost subtending the 

 female flowers, Flowering- bracts IJ lin. long, J lin. broad, somewhat 



