Eriocaulon.] cliv. eriocaule.e (brown). 258 



gibbous keel, blackish or dark fuscous, hairy inside and bearded with 

 white hairs at the apex. Petals arising about ^ lin. above the sepals, 

 |-1 lin. long, l lin. broad, cuneate-oblong or somewhat spathulate- 

 oblong, obtuse, whitish, bearded within with white hairs, and with a 

 black gland near the apex. Ovary trigonous, glabrous ; style very 

 deeply trifid. Male flowers numerous, shortly pedicellate. Sepals free 

 or more or less connate below, | lin. long, i-J lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, 

 fuscous, bearded with white hairs at the apex. Stipes between the 

 sepals and petals -J-J lin. long. Petals often unequal, j-l lin. long, 

 oblong, obtuse, whitish, bearded with white hairs within, and with a 

 black central gland. Stamens as long as the petals ; anthers black. 



l»£ozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Zomba, 4000-6000 It.' 

 Whyte ! {Johnston ex Rtihland, by error). 



Ruhland has described the female bracts as villous and the male bracts as sub- 

 glabrous at the apex, and the petals of the male flowers as glandless. I Hnd them to 

 be the reverse of this. The heads are viviparous in tJie Mount Zomba specimens. 



27. E. HanBingtonii, N. E. Br. Plant stemless. Leaves about 

 6-S, ascending or spreading, l-lj in. long, 1 J-2J lin. broad, linear, 

 acute, flat, 9-13-nerved, glabrous. Peduncles several to a plant, 2.^-5 

 in. long, slender, acutely 5-angled, glabrous; their sheaths 1-1 J ''in. 

 long, acute, loose, glabrous. Heads 2-2^ lin. in diam., subglobose, 

 monoecious, grey. Involucral-bracts shorter than the young head, 

 spreading, not becoming reflexed, nearly 1 lin. long, |-| lin. broad, 

 obovate-oblong, very obtuse, glabrous, light brownish-white. Flowering- 

 bracts about 1 lin. long, J lin. broad, subspathulate-obovate, acute, 

 concave, fuscous, thinly pubescent with white hairs on the apical part. 

 Receptacle thinly pilose. Female flowers in several exterior rows 

 pedicellate. Sepals 3, subequal, -|-J lin. long, i lin. broad, or from front 

 to back, lanceolate, acute or obtuse, boat-shaped, one less concave than 

 the other two, acutely keeled and somewhat gibbous on the l)ack, 

 blackish or dark fuscous, ciliate with a few white hairs at the apex 

 and occasionally one or two on the keel, glabrous within. Petals about 

 J lin. long, ^ lin. broad, linear-cuneate, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, 

 ciliate with a few white hairs at the apex, white, glandless or with a 

 minute black gland just below the apex. Male flowers central, pedicel- 

 late. Sepals J lin. long, connate into a funnel-shaped body open down 

 one side, 3-crenate or 3-lobed and ciliate at the apex, fuscous. Stipes 

 between the sepals and petals about \ lin. long. Petals unequal, 

 minute, the largest not more than \ lin. long, ovate, acute, tipped with 

 1-2 hairs, white. Anthers black. 



XMCuzanib. Dist. German East Africa; Kwa Chiropa, Hanuinqton ! 



This is very similar to E. zamhesiense, Ruhland, in appearance, but, in tlie single 

 example seen, the peduncles are much shorter and the flowers are (juitc different in 

 structure. From E. elegantulum, Engl, (which it also closely resembles), the pallid 

 involucral-bracts will at once discriminate it. 



28. H. intaustuniy N. E. Br. Plant stemless. Leaves about 

 5-8, radical, erect, 1^-5 in. long, 1^-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, flat, 



