244 CLiv. ERTocAULEiE (brown). [Eriocavlon 



spathulate-obovate, concave, obtusely keeled on the back, pale tuscous, 

 densely bearded with white hairs on the apical part. Receptacle 

 glabrous. Female flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate, 

 trigonous. Sepals 3, equal, 1-1 J lin. long, J lin. broad, elliptic-oblong, 

 very deeply boat-shaped, obtuse, obtusely keeled, dark fuscous, bearded 

 with white hairs at the apex. Petals 3, one larger than the others, 

 arising close to the sepals, about 1 J lin. long, ^J-J lin. broad, oblanceo- 

 late, acute, white, bearded with white hairs within and with a black 

 gland near the apex. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 1 lin. long, 

 J-| lin. broad, free or variously connate, obovate, obtuse, dark fuscous, 

 bearded with white hairs at the apex. Stipes between the sepals and 

 petals about J lin. long. Petals unequal, oblong, acute, white, bearded 

 with white hairs within and with a black linear central gland, the 

 largest J lin. long, \ lin. broad. Anthers black. Capsule 3-lobed, 

 J lin. in diam., glabrous, brown. Seeds J lin. long, ellipsoid; brown. — 

 Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 80. B. schimperianuni, Koernicke in 

 Schweinf . Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 309, name only ; Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 503. 



xrile Iiand. Abyssinia : Begemeder ; in a swamp at Jan Meda, 8500 ft., 

 ScUmper, 1217 ! 



13. E. mesanthemoidesy Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 79. 

 Leaves erect, 3J-10 in. long, (IJ in. broad at the base, ex Ruhland), 

 ^ in. broad in the specimen seen, but much dilated in the sheathing 

 portion, gradually tapering to a very obtuse apex, many-nerved, 

 glabrous. Peduncles several to a plant (3 in the specimen seen), much 

 longer than the leaves, 1-1 J lin. thick, terete, with 10-11 remarkably 

 prominent ribs, as seen in thin transverse section in water, glabrous ; 

 their sheaths sihorter than the leaves, very lax, mostly 3-fid at the apex, 

 glabrous. Heads about 6-7 lin. in diam., semiglobose, monoecious, 

 densely white-pubescent (somewhat glabrous, ex Ruhland). Involucral- 

 bracts 1|-2J^ lin. long, 1-1 J lin. broad, w^hite (greenish-fuscous, ex 

 Ruhland), glabrous. Flowering-bracts lf-2 lin. long, |-1 lin. broad, 

 cuneate-rhomboid, abruptly very acute, white, densely bearded with 

 short white hairs on the apical part. Female flowers shortly pedicellate. 

 Sepals 3, equal, IJ lin. long, J lin. broad, oblong, boat-shaped, flaccid, 

 blackish, bearded and ciliate with white hairs on the apical part. 

 Petals 3, unequal, 1-lJ lin. long, \ lin. broad, linear-subspathulate 

 (oblong-spathulate, ex Ruhland), white, all slightly hairy on the inner 

 face (ciliate, ex Ruhland) with a black gland near the apex, the larger 

 bearded on the back at the apex, the smaller with only a small apical 

 tuft of white hairs. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals connate into a 

 funnel-shaped body about 1 J lin. long, open down one side, trifid at the 

 apex, blackish, densely bearded with white hairs on the apicai part. 

 Stipes between the sepals and petals exceedingly short, about J lin. or 

 less long. Petals 3, unequal, f-1 lin. long, ^-3^ lin. broad, linear-cuneate, 

 whitish, densely bearded with white hairs on the apical part, and with 



