382 RESTIACE.E. [Eriocaulon. 



ner female perianth of 3 narrow short segments, slightly plumose at the top. 

 Ovary 3-celled. Style long, with 3 short filiform stigmas. — E. cantoniense, 

 Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. 219. 



Common in moist situations, Champion and others. In Ceylon and the Indian Peninsula, 

 in Tavoy and S. China. The E. longifolium, Nees, is prohably the same species with the 

 flowers accidentally 3-androus; at least, in the Chinese specimen from Fortune, n. 120, re- 

 ferred to it by Kcernicke, I find the flowers usually 3-merous and 6-androus, even in my spe- 

 cimen from Fortune ; although in one instance I found only 5 stamens, and occasionally only 

 2 seeds ripen. 



2. E. australe, Br.; Kcern. in Linnaa, xxvii. 686. Very near the last, 

 and with flowers of the same structure. Leaves narrower, more or less hairy. 

 Scape 1 to 1£ ft. high, prominently 7 -angled. Flower-heads rather larger, 

 exceedingly compact, much more mealy-white ; the floral scales more turned 

 in and pointed. 



Hongkong, Ranee, Wright. Also in tropical Australia. 



3. E. tnmcatum, Ham.; Kcern. in Linncea, xxvii. 631. Leaves all ra- 

 dical, linear-lanceolate, acute, 1 to 2 in. long, 1 to near 2 lines broad. Scape 

 2 to 6 in. Head hemispherical or at length nearly globular, about 2| lines 

 diameter. Outer scales as long as the disk, thin, rather scarious, yellowish 

 and shining ; inner ones obovate-oblong, very thin and transparent, minutely 

 ciliate but glabrous. Outer perianths of 2 narrow falcate segments ; inner 

 male with 3 minute black glandular lobes ; inner female of 3 linear slightly 

 fringed segments. Style divided to nearly the middle into 3 filiform stigmas. 



Hougkong, Hance, Wright, Wilford. "Widely dispersed over India from Ceylon and the 

 Peninsula to the Archipelago, and northward to Khasia and Silhet, the Philippines, and S. 

 China. 



4. E. cristatum, Mart.; Kcern. in Linn tea, xxvii. 609. Leaves all ra- 

 dical, narrow-linear or almost subulate, usually 3 or 4 in. long. Scape usually 

 twice as long, stiff and angular. Heads hemispherical, full 3 lines diameter, 

 dark-coloured at first, then very white as the plumose perianths expand. 

 Outer scales broadly obovate, shorter than the disk ; inner ones thin, narrow- 

 obovate or cuneate, dark at the top and fringed with short white hairs. Outer 

 perianth-segments 3, nearly equal, dark at the top and fringed like the bracts. 

 Inner segments of the females and lobes of the males very white, plumose, one 

 much longer, and all projecting beyond the scales. Style short, with 3 fili- 

 form stigmas. — E. miserum, Kcem. 1. c. 607. 



Hongkong, Hance. Common in Khasia. 



5. E. heteranthum, Benth., n. sp. Leaves all radical, very narrow, 1 

 to 1| in. long, ending in fine points. Stems slender, 3 to 4 in. high. Heads 

 at first hemispherical, ovoid-globose when full grown, nearly 2 lines diameter. 

 Outer bracts broad, obtuse, nearly as long as the disk ; inner ones obovate- 

 oblong, rather acute, very thin and transparent, glabrous. Male outer peri- 

 anth spathaceous, 3-toothed, inner of 3 short plumose lobes. Stamens 6. 

 Female outer perianth of 2 linear-subulate acute segments, fringed with a 

 very few long hairs, inner perianth entirely deficient. Style long, with 3 su- 

 bulate lobes. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wright ; in paddy-fields at Little Hongkong, Wilford. Not known 

 from elsewhere. Allied to E. achiton, Kcern., by the absence of any inner perianth to the 



