Pcepalanthus.] cuv. ERiocAULEiE (brown). 263 



Receptacle hairy. Female flowers sessile. Sepals 3, sometimes unequal, 

 nearly J lin. long, lanceolate, acute, boat-shaped, glabrous, sparsely 

 ciliate on the margins, yellowish. Petals about J lin. long, whitish. 

 Style with a stout base, dividing into 3 slender stigmatic arms, witliout 

 any alternating sterile arms. Male flowers subsessile. Sepals \ lin. 

 long and about half as broad, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous. Petals connate 

 into a short funnel. Stamens 3 ; anthers white. Seeds ellipsoid, 

 reddish-brown. 



slower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, in moist fields after the 

 cultivation of Sorghum, 5500 ft., Welwitsch, 2447 ! 



2. P. Wahlbergii, Koernicke in Mart. Fl. Bras. iii. i. 450. I^eaves 

 very numerous, in a dense rosette, erect or spreading, J-1 in. long, 

 J-J lin. broad, subulate, flat above, convex beneath, very acute, glabrous, 

 woolly at the base. Peduncles few or numerous, central, unequal, l-'J 

 in. long, filiform, trigonous ; glabrous or more or less hairy in the upper 

 part and occasionally all along ; their basal sheaths 4-9 lin. long, acute, 

 with a very oblique mouth, glabrous or thinly pubescent with spreading 

 hairs. Heads 2-3 lin. in diam., hemispherical, monoecious, with the 

 sexes intermingled. Involucral-bracts in about 3 series, the inner 

 1-1 J lin. long, \-\ lin. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, concave, 

 obtuse or subacute, light brown or fuscous. Flowering-bracts none. 

 Receptacle convex, villous. Pedicels of both sexes villous, J-§ lin. long. 

 Sepals of both sexes similar, free, J- J lin. long, lanceolate, boat-shaped, 

 acute, keeled, glabrous, slightly ciliate on the margins below, pale brown 

 or fuscous, those of the female flowers enlarging in fruit. Stipes 

 between the sepals and petals very short in the female flower, and 

 about half as long as the sepals in the male. Female flower : Petals 

 |-f lin. long, free at the base, connate above into a tube, crenulate or 

 minutely 3-lobed at the apex, hairy outside, white, glandless. Ovary 

 triquetrous, glabrous ; style with 6 filiform branches, 3 of them end- 

 ing in globose knobs. Male flower: Corolla a minute funnel-shaped 

 tube, irregular at the mouth. Stamens 2-3 ; anthers white. — N. E. Br. 

 in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 59; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 102; 

 Durand & Schinz, Coiispect. Fl. Afr. v. 504. Dupatya Wahlbergii, 

 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 746. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Nupe; in a swamp near Lom, Barter, 

 1539! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, in spongy or marshy places; near the 

 streams of Morro de Monino, Welwitsch, 2454! between Lopollo and Monino, 

 Welwitsch, 2455 ! and near the banks of the River Quipumpunhine, near Humpnta, 

 Welwitsch, 2455b ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Uziba ; in Usongora district at the 

 edge of a swamp, Wilson, 140! Between Luke Tanganyika and Lake Kukwa, 

 6000 ft., Nutt ! 



Also in the Transvaal. 



3. P. pulvinatus, N. E. Br. Plant very dwarf, stemless. 

 Leaves very numerous (200-300), densely crowded into a cushion-like 

 rosette 1-1 J in. in diam., all strongly recurved from the fii-st stages of 



