258 CLiv. ERIOCAULE^ (brown). [Eriocaulon. 



cellate. Sepals connate into a narrowly funnel-shaped body J-J lin. 

 long, deeply cleft on one side, denticulate at the apex, glabrous, light 

 fuscous. Petals reduced to very minute lobules at the apex of the J lin. 

 long stipes, glabrous. Anthers black. Seeds about J lin. long, ellipsoid, 

 smooth, brown.— Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. ii. 273 ; Koernicke in Linnaea, 

 xxvii. 612; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 154; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 

 Aethiop. 295 ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 502 ; Ruhland 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 84 ; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vvi. 53. £. 

 Mickardi, Koernicke in Schweinfurth, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 309, name 

 only ; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. El. Afr. v. 503 ; Ruhland in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxvii. 85. ^. sexangulare, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 347 

 (excl. all syns.) ; Koernicke in Linnsea, xxvii. 613, 615; Durajid & 

 Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 503 ; Ruhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 83, 

 partly, not of Linn. E. minimum, Euhland in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 85, 

 not of Lam. 



wile Ziand. Abyssinia : on the mountain plains in the Province of Sliire, 

 Schimper, 1944 ! Tigre ; in inundated places near Tchelatchekenneh, Quariin- 

 Dillon. 



Also in South Africa. 



36. El. Heudelotii, iV. E. Br. Plants small, tufted, stemiess. 

 Leaves few, in a radical rosette, erect, J-| in. long, J- J lin. broad, 

 linear, tapering to a very fine hair-like point, 1-3-nerved, glabrous. 

 Peduncles 1-3 to a plant, 1^-3 J in. long, subterete, slightly striate in 

 the dried state, glabrous ; their sheaths 4-7 lin. long, acute, glabrous. 

 Heads li-2 lin. in diam., somewhat hemispherical, monoecious, with the 

 sexes intermixed, light brownish. Involucral-bracts |-1 lin. long, 

 A lin. broad, cuneate-oblong, or somewhat obovate, very obtuse, slightly 

 lacerate-denticulate at the apex, light ochreous-brown, glabrous. 

 Flowering-bracts f-1 lin. long, J-i lin. broad, linear-oblanceolate, 

 acute, very thin and membranous, glabrous. Keceptacle glabrous. 

 Female flowers very numerous, pedicellate, entirely destitute of sepals 

 or petals, or with 2 filiform simple or bifid sepals at the middle of the 

 pedicel; pedicels about J lin. long; style trifid to half-way down, 

 or expanding upwards into a thin, flat, membranous, linear, entire, bifid 

 or trifid blade. Male flowers comparatively few, long- pedicellate. Sepals 

 connate into a somewhat funnel-shaped body J lin. long, open down one 

 side, toothed at the apex, very membranous, fuscous, glabrous. Stipes 

 between the sepals and stamens 0-J lin. long. Petals rudimentary or 

 absent. Anthers yellowish. Seeds J lin. long, eUipsoid-oblong, ochreous, 

 smooth. 



TTpper Guinea. Senegambia : without precise locality, Meudelot, 677 ! 678 ! 



37. E. amboense, Schinz in Bull. Herh. Boiss. iv. App. in. 35. 

 Plant stemiess, 1 J-2 J in. high. Leaves numerous, |-1 J in. long, ^-^ hn. 

 broad, linear, tapering to a very fine point, flaccid, tessellately veined, 

 alabrous. Peduncles 5 or 6 to a plant, 1-1| in. long, slender, terete, 

 glabrous, green ; their basal sheaths 5-8 lin. long, slightly inflated, 

 obtuse, glabrous, green. Flower-heads hemispherical, blackish or dark 



