M'iocaulon.] cliv. eriocaule^ (brown)^; 249 



similar, but smaller, all yellowish-white, glabrous, glandless. Male 

 flowers numerous, central, shortly pedicellate, quite glabrous. Sepals 

 J lin. long, united into a funnel-shaped body open down one side, 

 shortly 3-lobed, submembranous, butt-coloured. Petals very uiuMjual, 

 2 rudimentary, 1 about ^ lin. long, ovate, obtuse. Anthers black. 

 upper Guinea. Nig'er Territory ; Nupe, Barter ! 



A very distinct species, easily recognised by its sliglitly glossy, bufT-coluired 



iieads. 



20. E. Welwitschii, Reiidle in Cat. Afr. PL Wdw. ii. 97. Stem- 

 less. Leaves J-1 J in. long, about J-J lin. broad at the base, filiform- 

 subulate, gradually tapering to a very fine point, glabrous. Peduncles 

 numerous, lJ-4 in. long, about \ lin. thick, filiform, glabrous, their 

 sheaths 4-8 lin. long, oblique at the mouth, bifid at the apex. Heads 

 1-lJ lin. in diam., subglobose, somewhat flattened at tlie base, slightly 

 echinulate from the bracts exceeding the flowers, montccious, with tiie 

 outer flowers female. Involucral- and flowering-bracts lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, membranous, whitish or faintly straw-coloured, glabrous, 

 those of the involucre f lin. long, \ lin. broad, the others rather shorter. 

 Receptacle pilose. Female flowers sessile. Sepals 3, subequal, J lin. 

 long, yV"! ^^"- broad, linear-lanceolate, very acute, concave, membranous, 

 whitish, glabrous. Petals o, arising close to the sepals, about J lin. 

 long, filiform, glabrous. Male flowers subsessile. Sepals 3, about J 

 lin. long, yV-iV 1"^* broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, free or more or less 

 connate below, membranous, whitish. Petals rudimentary. Anthers 

 black. — Dichroleins pusilla, Welw. Apont. 542. 



^ower dulnea. Angola: Pungo Andongo ; only seen in one place, between 

 Lombe and Candumba, between 2400 and 3800 ft., Welwitsch, 2441 ! 



Y&.Y. pygmceum, Rendle in Ciit. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 98. A dwarf congested form, 

 8-15 lin. high. Heads somewhat fuscous, with a whitish involucre. Keceptacle 

 almost glabrous. 



Iiower Cruinea. Angola : Huilla ; near Lopollo, in fields where Sorghum 

 had been cultivated the previous year, Wehoitsch, 2444 ! 



21. E. Teusczii, Engl, d- Ruhland in Engl. Jahrh. xxvii. 77. 

 Leaves in a radical rosette, Ij-^ in. long, 1^-2 lin. broad, lanceolate- 

 linear, obtuse and slightly thickened at the apex, 1 1-12-nerved, reddish, 

 glabrous. Peduncles up to 2 ft. long, 10-12 times as long as the leaves, 

 0-4 to a plant, with sheaths nearly twice as long as the leaves, split 

 into 3-4 at the mouth, glabrous. Heads large, globose, hard, sliortly 

 villous. Involucral-bracts nearly rhomboid, rounded at the apex, 

 somewhat glabrous, whitish-brown. Flowering-bracts obovate, subacute. 

 Receptacle apparently glabrous. Female flowers: Sepals 3, equal, 

 narrowly ovate, hairy at the apex, white. Petals 3, elongate-spathulate, 

 ciliate all round, with a gland near the apex. Male flowers : Sepals 3, 

 almost free to the base, equal, obovate, obtuse, ciliate, white. Petals 

 equal, ciliate, with a gland near the apex. Anthers black. 



Xiower CrUinea. Angola : Malange, Mechow, 231. 



