264 CLiv. ERiocAULE^ (brown). [Pcepalanthus. 



growth, about ^ in. long, \-^ lin. broad, linear, acute, thick, rigid, 

 thinly covered with rather long adpressed hairs, light greenish-grey in 

 the dried state. Peduncles numerous, arising around the sides of the 

 rosette from the axils of the older leaves, none central, |-1 in. long, 

 filiform, terete, thinly covered with long adpressed hairs ; their sheaths 

 about J in. long, obliquely truncate and slightly dilated at the mouth, 

 ciliate, and thinly covered with long hairs. Heads about 2 lin. in 

 diam., depressed or cushion-like, many-flowered, monoecious, brown. 

 Involucral-bracts 5-6 -seriate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acumi- 

 nate, brown, ciliate and thinly covered with long hairs at the apex, the 

 innermost about 1 lin. long, | lin. broad, the outer smaller. Flowering- 

 bracts I lin. long, ^-J lin. broad or less, linear, acute, brown, tipped 

 with a small tuft of hairs, otherwise glabrous. Receptacle large, rather 

 flat, spongy, densely covered with fine whitish hairs as long as the 

 bracts and flowers. Female flowers few, in about 1 series or sometimes 

 only 1-2 in a head, subsessile. Sepals f lin. long, J-J lin. broad, 

 cuneate-obovate, obtuse, slightly concave, brown, glabrous, ciliate with 

 short white clavate hairs, which in some flowers appear to be absent. 

 Petals free, arising close to the sepals and very similar to them in size 

 and shape, concave, white, hairy on the inner face, ciliate, gland) ess. 

 Style with 3 bifid stigmatic branches and 3 thickened clavate append- 

 ages alternating with them, Male flowers numerous, shortly pedicel- 

 late. Sepals exactly as in the female flowers. Petals connate into a 

 funnel-shaped tube, white, hyaline, glabrous, 3-toothed where adnate to 

 the stamens. Anthers pallid. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : without precise locality, Borkstadt ! 

 This plant is very distinct from all the other African species of this Order. 

 The sepals in the flowers of both sexes often appear to be entirely without cilia, but 

 I am unable to determine whether the cilia have fallen away or whether only some 

 of the flowers have ciliate sepals. 



Order CLV. RESTIACE^. (By K. E. Brown.) 



Flowers usually dioecious, rarely monoecious, very rarely hermaphro- 

 dite. Perianth-segments usually 6, in two series, sometimes 5, 4, or 3, 

 very rarely deficient in the female flowers, glumaceous, scarious or 

 hyaline, all similar or the inner different from the rest, 2 of the outer 

 segments often complicate and more or less keeled. Male flowers with 

 3 stamens opposite the inner perianth-segments ; filaments slender, 

 free, or connate into a column in the basal part ; anthers linear-oblong, 

 1-2-celled, dorsifixed, introrse, opening longitudinally. Pistillode 

 rudimentary or none. Female flowers like or unlike the males. 

 Staminodes none or 2-3 opposite the inner perianth-segments. Ovary 

 free, sessile, or on a stout stipes, 1-3-celled ; styles 1-3, free or more or 

 less united, linear-filiform, with a plumose stigmatic surface on the 

 inner side. Ovules solitary in each cell, orthotropous, pendulous. 

 Fruit 1-3-celled, dry, nut-like or capsular, dehiscent or indehiscent. 

 Seeds solitary in each cell, pendulous ; testa hard or membranous. 



