Bi'iocaidon.] cliv. ERiocAULEifi (urown). 245 



a linear black gland near the apex. Anthers bhick. — Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 35 G. 



Mozamb. Slst. German East Africa : Ukami; on the Lukwungula I'lateau 

 in the Uluguru district, Stuhlmann, 9143, Goetze, 293 ! 



Jn the very imperfect description given by Ruhland tlie tlower-heads are 

 described as somewliat glabrous (giabriusculis), and the invohicral-bnicts as greenish- 

 fuscous. I have not seen Stuhlmann's 9143, but in the phmt collected by (ioetzs 

 (from which I have made the above description), the heads are densely white- 

 pubescent, and tlie involucral-bracts white. The numerous, narrow, very prominent 

 ribs on the peduncle are quite different from those of any other African species I 

 have examined. 



14. E. decipiens, N. E. Br. Stemless, moderately robust, with 

 stout roots. Leaves numerous, 3-4 in. long, 2-3 lin. broad, flat 

 gradually tapering from the base to a very acute point, many-nerved, 

 with the tessellate cross-veins very distinct in the basal part in the dried 

 state, woolly in the sheathing part, otherwise glabrous. Peduncle 

 solitary, twice as long as the leaves, 6-ribbed, glabrous ; sheath 3^ in. 

 long, shortly oblique at the acute apex, glabrous. Heads 4 J- lin. in diam., 

 hemispherical, unisexual in the 6 examples seen. Involucral-bracts 

 about 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, obovate, acute, whitish, glabrous. 

 Flowering-bracts l|-2 lin. long, |-| lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, acute, 

 concave, much incurved at the apex, very light straw-colour or faintly 

 greenish- white, bearded with white haiis on the apical part. Receptacle 

 pilose. Female flowers not seen. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 3, 

 nearly equal, more or less connate at "the base, 1—1 J lin. long, \-h lin. 

 broad, obovate-oblong, obtuse, concave, entirely fuscous, bearded with 

 white hairs at the apex. Petals separated from the sepals by a stipes of 

 variable length, unequal, the largest f-l^ lin. long, oblong, oblanceolate 

 or linear, and sometimes scarcely broader than the gland, white, densely 

 bearded with white hairs, and with a linear black gland at the middle. 

 Anthers black. — E. sonderiayium. E.endie in Trans. Linn. Soc. sei-. 2, iv. 

 53; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 133; Euhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 81, 

 partly, not of Koernicke. 



»Cozan>b. Sist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Mlanji, Wht/ie, 

 115! 



This plant is so exceedingly like E. sonderiamim, Koernicke, in external .appear- 

 ance as to have been mistaken for it, but it distinctly differs in the following 

 particulars : — The Howering-bracts are much longer, broader, without the fuscous 

 spot on each side of the less pronounced keel, and are less rigid and more mem- 

 branous ; the sepals of the male flowers are larger, much more membranous, not 

 keeled, and are fuscous quite to the apex, whilst in F.. sonderinniim the apical part 

 of the sepals of the male flowers is white with a whitish mid-line line running half- 

 way down the keel. Other differences may, perhaps, be found in the female flowers 

 when known. From JE. Dregei, Hochst, it differs in its very acute leaves, and much 

 shorter cilia on the sepals, &c. 



15. E. lacteum, Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 09. Stemless, 

 tufted. Leaves numerous, |-lf in. long, ^-If Hn. broad, densely 



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