Eriocaulon.~\ CLXXI. EEIOCAULEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 579 



25. E. oryzetorum, Mart, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 28; Wall. Cat. 

 6069 ; leaves ensiform, scapes many short or tall, heads yellow globose or 

 ovoid, bracts all scarious hyaline, invol. oblong obtuse passing into the 

 cuneate-obovate cuspidate densely imbricate floral, fern. fl. shortly pedi- 

 celled, petals slender. Kunth. Enum. iii. 552 ; Steud. Syn. PL Gyp. 270 ; 

 Kcern. in Linnsea, xxvii. 639. E. Hamiltonianum, Mart. I. c. 29 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6075 ; Kunth I. c. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Sikkim ; ASSAM, SILHET, PEGU, 

 CHOTA NAGPORE, SINGAPORE and PENANG. 



Rootstock short, stout, or 0. Leaves 1-3 by - in., spongy, very many-nerved, 

 narrowed to a truncate coriaceous tip. Scapes 8-18 in. (shorter in dwarf states), 

 soft, flexuous. Heads -J in. diam., straw-colrd., base intruded ; receptacle conical 

 or columnar, densely villous ; male sepals 2, tips fimbriate or glabrous ; petals 

 minute or 0; stamens 6; fern. fl. pedicelled, sepals 3, slender, caducous; petals 

 filiform to oblanceolate, naked or ciliolate, caducous ; ovary with petals stipitate 

 above the sepals. Seeds pale yellow, very minute, smooth. E. Hamiltonianum is 

 certainly an immature state of oryzetorum. 



26. E. stellulatum, Ko&rn. in Linnsea, xxvii. 620; leaves mem- 

 branous broadly subulate or linear, scapes many hairy, heads globose, 

 bracts all many times longer than the flowers white scarious stel- 

 lately spreading and finely acuminate, involucral ovate-lanceolate, floral 

 narrowly lanceolate, fern. fl. sessile, petals oblanceolate ciliate with long 

 hairs, ovary with petals sessile. 



The CONCAN, Hugel, Stocks. ? BENGAL (Herl. Kew}. 



Leaves 1-2 in. by -| in. broad at the base, tapering to a point, very many- 

 nerved. Scapes 2-7 in., hairs spreading ; sheaths shorter than the leaves, tips long 

 free acuminate. Heads 55 in. diam., perfectly glabrous except the conical recep- 

 tacle and ciliate fern, petals ; male sepals 2, free or connate, glabrous, hyaline ; petals 

 very short ; stamens 6 ; fern. fl. sessile ; sepals 3, dimidiate-ovate falcately incurved 

 with long slender recurved points, dorsally crenately winged, petals narrowly ob- 

 lanceolate, ciliate. Seeds dark chesnut, smooth. 



27. E. echinulatum, Mart, in Wall PL As. Bar. iii. 29; Wall. 

 Cat. 6082 ; leaves subulate opaque finely acuminate, scapes many obscurely 

 grooved, heads small globose, bracts all white rigid stellately spreading 

 subulate-lanceolate, floral many times longer than the dimerous subsessile 

 flowers, ovary with petals stipitate. Kunth Enum. iii. 568 ; Steud. Syn* 

 PL Gyp. 272; Kcern. in Linnsea, xxvii. 519. 



TAVOY ; Mergui, Gomez, Griffith. DISTRIB. Tonkin, China. 



Leaves many, f-1 in., erecto-patent, spongy. Scapes rather stout, 1-5 in., 

 terete, shining; sheath short. Heads i- in. diam., straw-colrd.; invol. bracts 

 ovate, narrowed into a slender rigid point ; floral longer, narrowed at the base ; 

 receptacle villous ; male sepals connate, glabrous ; petals minute, deformed ; stamens 

 5-6 ; fern, sepals falcately lanceolate, clawed, dorsally crenately winged below the 

 middle, margins spinulose-serrate ; petals 0. 



28. E. minutum. Hook. f. ; very small, leaves subulate or filiform 

 acute or obtuse, scapes very many, sheaths membranous and inflated above, 

 heads minute subglobose few-fld. pale, invol. bracts erect ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate scarious, floral oblanceolate acute or cuspidate, fern. fl. subses- 

 sile, sepals falcate winged or keeled, petals 1-3 very slender or 0, ovary 

 with petals sessile or substipitate. 



The CONCAN, Laiv. MYSORE, SirF. Adams. RAJPUTANA, on Mt. Aboo, Stocks* 

 Duthie. 



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