2i}(j CLiv. ERiocAULE^ (brown). [Eriocaulou. 



Petals unequal, minute, the largest J-J lin. long, oblong-ovate. 

 Anthers black. Seeds about -J lin. long, oblong-ellipsoid, brown, 

 glabrous. 



XVSozaxnb. X>ist. Britisli Central Africa: Zambesi River, on an island at 

 Victoria Falls, Kirk ! 



This is very near E. ciliisepalum, Rendle, and may be only a robust form of that 

 species, but it differs in appearance, in its stouter subulate leaves, more numerous 

 and stouter peduncles, larger heads, larger flowers, and the slightly diflferejit form of 

 the sepals and petals. 



32. E. ciliisepalum, Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Wehv. ii. 98. A 

 small, tufted plant, stemless, apparently an annual. Leaves -J— 1 in. 

 long, ^— J lin. broad, very slender, filiform, glabrous. Peduncles 

 l_li in. long, filiform; their sheaths not exceeding 4-5 lin. 

 in length, oblique at the mouth, acute, glabrous. Heads 1-1 5- lin. 

 in diam., subglolDOse, truncate at the base, with a whitish involucre 

 and blackish disk, few-flowered, monoecious, with the outer flowers 

 female. Involucral-bracts | lin. long, J-J lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate 

 or elliptic -oblong, acute or subobtuse, glabrous. Flowering-bracts 

 |-l lin. long, i-J lin. broad, ovate or elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, glabrous, fuscous. Female flowers sessile. Sepals 8, equal, 

 1-1 lin. long, J lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, very concave, sparsely 

 ciliate along the margins, otherwise glabrous, fuscous. Petals 

 3, arising close to the sepals, J lin, long, narrowly-linear, acute. Male 

 flowers shortly pedicellate. Sepals united into a funnel-shaped body, 

 open down one side, bifid or trifid at the apex, glabrous, fuscous. 

 Stipes between the sepals and petals scarcely -|- lin. long. Petals 

 rudimentary, triangular-ovate, with a blackish gland below the apex. 

 Anthers blackish. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in damp fields in which maize has 

 been cultivated, i.ear Lopollo, 5000 ft., Weiuritsch, 2445 ! on spongy slopes of 

 Morro de Lopollo, below the old fortres-s, Welwitsch, 2445b! Huilla to Humpata, 

 Johnston ! 



Johnston's specimens are stouter, and have more, numerous flowers in the heads 

 than any of those collected by Welwitsch, but I find no difference in the structure of 

 the flowers and bracts. 



33. E. mutatum, N. E. Br. Stemless. Leaves 2-8 lin. long, 

 J-l lin. broad, subulate, tapering to a fine point, glabrous. Peduncles 

 numerous, from less than 1 in. to 4 J in. long, ^-\ lin. thick, filiform, 

 3-4:-angled, glabrous ; their sheaths 3-10 lin. long, obtuse, often torn 

 at the apex, rather loose in the upper part, with a long oblique mouth. 

 Heads 1-2 lin. thick, subglobose, monoecious, with female flowers on the 

 outside and male and female mixed in the centre, black. Involucral-bracts 

 ^-| lin. long, about ^ lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, fuscous. Flowering-bracts 

 |-J lin. long, J to nearly J lin. broad, elliptic-lanceolate, or lanceolate 

 acute, concave, blackish, glabrous. Receptacle glabrous. Female flowers 

 sessile. Sepals 2, about J lin. long and as much in breadth, obliquely 

 suborbicular in outUne, apiculate, finely toothed on the upper part of 



