582 CLXXI. EEIOCAULE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriocaulon. 



or 'cuneately oblong tips rounded, floral cuneately oblanceolate subacnte, 

 fern. fl. sessile, sepals 2 oblong concave tips ciliate flat, petals oblanceo- 

 late ciliate, ovary with petals sessile. 



WESTEBN HIMALAYA; Kumaon, 3-4000 ft. and Garwhal, alt. 8-9000 ft., 

 DutTiie. 



Leaves $-% in., spongy, opaque, green. Scapes 1-1^ in., obscurely 4-grooved ; 

 sheath as long as the leaves, tip membranous. Heads subglobose ; invol. bracts 

 scarions, glistening, pale or dark; floral dark, sprinkled with white hairs ; receptacle 

 small, conical, glabrous ; male sepals free, tips ciliate ; petals very minute ; stamens 

 6. Seeds oblong, pale, with papillose ridges. Near IE. ackiton, bub the receptacle 

 is quite glabrous. 



Receptacle villous. 



35. E. luzulsBfolium, Mart, in Wall. PI. As. Ear. iii. 28; Gat. 

 6071 ; leaves short broadly subulate many-nerved, scapes many flexuous, 

 bead small hemispheric pubescent base truncate and intruded, invol. bracts 

 spreading or erect (never reflexed) outer broadly cuneiform shining, floral 

 cuneately oblanceolate obtuse, fern. fl. pedicelled, sepals slender concave 

 tipped with bristles, petals 3 linear-lanceolate ciliate, ovary with petals 

 stipitate. Kunth Enum. iii. 553 ; Schnizl. Icon. t. 46, f . 2, 5 ; Steud. Syn. 

 PI. Gyp. 270 ; Kcern. in I/wma>cT xxvii. 636. 



Throughout INDIA ; from Bengal to Burma and the Concan, ascending the 

 Khasia Hills to 6000 ft., common. CEYLON, Gardner. 



Rootstock elongate and as stout as a swan's quill, or slender,' densely fibrous. 

 Leaves 1-3 by -5^-- - in., narrowed from the base to the tip, opaque, rarely trans- 

 lucent. Scapes 3-12 in., slender; sheath obtuse. Heads in. diam., pale; invol. 

 bracts coriaceously scarious; floral dark, shortly hairy, receptacle conical or 

 columnar; male sep'als 2-3, tips ciliate; petals minute, obscure; pedicel of fern, 

 fl. slender. Seeds oblong, yellow. Difficult to distinguish at sight from E. trilobum 

 and quinquangulare. 



36. E. quinquangrulare, Linn. Sp. PI. 87 ; leaves linear ensiform 

 or subulate acute or acuminate, scapes many, heads globose grey or snow- 

 white, invol. bracts very short scarious linear-oblong to broadly cuneate 

 at length reflexed under the head, floral oblanceolate or spathulate hyaline 

 acuminate or finely cuspidate, male petals minute, fern. fl. pedicelled, 

 sepals slender, petals narrowly oblanceolate sparsely ciliate, ovary with 

 petals stipitate or substipitate. Mart, in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 28 ; Cat. 6072 ; 

 Kunth Enum. iii. 556 ; Steud. Syn. PL Gyp. 270, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 

 280 ; Than. Enum. 341. (excl. var.) ; Kcern. in Linn&a, xxvii. 646. E. argen- 

 teum, Mart. I.e. E. Martianum, Wall. Cat. 7279 (proliferous state). 

 E. argyraeum, Steud. I. c. 271. E. erythropodum, Miq. in Hohen. Herb. 

 Canara, n. 131. Sphaerochloa quadrangularis, Beauv. ex Desv. in. Ann. So. 

 Nat. Sc. xiii. 47. Leucocephala graminifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 612. 



Throughout INDIA ; from the Upper Gangetic plain to BTJRMA, and southward to 

 CEYLON (C.P. 792). 



Leaves 1-4 by - in. ; usually narrowed from the base to the acuminate tip, 

 few or many-nerved, opaque or subtranslucent, often bright red when dry. Scapes 

 1-4' rather stout and flexuous ; sheath short, tip membranous. Heads -% in. diam. 5 

 grey when the fl. bracts are sparsely shortly villous, snow-white when they are many 

 and densely villous ; invol. bracts very variable in breadth, pale, glistening ; recep- 

 tacle globose or columnar ; male sepals 3 or 2 or all connate, tips long-ciliate ; petals 

 very small ; stamens 6. Ovary usually with the petals stipitate. Seeds oblong, 

 smooth. It is difficult to distinguish forms of this from luzulcefolium and 



