Eriocaulon'\ XXVI. ERIOCAULACEiE. 97 



into 2 filiform arms longer than the sepals ; male flower subtended 

 by broadly elliptical concave glabrous bracts with truncate erose 

 apex, stalked; sepals small, triangular-subulate, free; petals minute, 

 alternating with the sepals ; stamens 4, anthers black ; 2 minute 

 black carpel-rudiments are found in the centre ; seeds elliptical 

 wdth a flat side, pale red-brown with a yellowish reticulation. 



Plants -] to ^ in. high with a close, button- or rosette-like 

 habit ; leaves densely rosulate, 3 to 8 lines long, not exceeding i 

 line in breadth above the base ; scape 5 lines long or less, sheathed 

 for three-fourths its length, sheath sometimes becoming iiltimately 

 trifid. Flower-heads 1 line or less in diameter ; involucral bracts 

 1 line long, or slightly less, by \ line broad ; floral bracts of 

 female flowers i to 5 line by -]- to | line ; sepals 'i to | line by i 

 line in side view ; petals close above the sepals, the larger a little 

 over 1 line by J^ line, the smaller J to 'i line long ; male bracts 

 ^ by 1 line, pedicel i line, sepals i line or slightly less. 



A distinct little species characterised by its dense congested 

 habit and the long protruding petal of the female flower. 



HuiLLA. — A dwarf plant with the fades of Jiincus jjt/gmceus, con- 

 gested rosulate radical leaves, crowded scapes shorter than or equal to 

 the leaves, and small whity-greenish flower-heads, growing almost 

 immersed in sticky mucus derived from Algse, on the boggy heights 

 of Morro de Lopollo ; middle of May 1860. No. 2446. 



3. E. Welwitschii Rendle sp. no v. 



Dichrolepisjnisilla Welw. Apont. p. 542 (1859). 



Glabrous ; stem suppressed ; leaves less than half the length 

 of the scape, linear-tapering, acute ; scapes numerous, filiform, 

 flexuose, subelliptical in section ; sheath slightly haiiy at the 

 base, united for i its length, apex bifid ; flower-heads ultimately 

 subglobose or with a slightly flattened base, subfuscous, monce- 

 cious, peripheral florets female; receptacle oblong to oblong- 

 conical, pilose; flowers trimerous ; involucral bracts whitish- 

 stramineous, lanceolate, acute to acuminate ; floral bracts similar 

 becoming slightly smaller ; female flowers sessile, sepals whitish, 

 transpai-ent, broadly linear to linear-oblong and lanceolate, 

 narrowing above to an aristate apex, concave ; petals close above 

 the sepals, filiform ; style passing into 3 subulate arms far exceed- 

 ing the perianth ; male subsessile, sepals whitish, transparent, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, free or more or less connate 

 below ; petals rudimentary, stamens 6, anthers black. 



Plants 3 to 4 in. high, leaves }r to 1^ in. long, reaching about 

 -^ line in breadth above the base, scapes 1^ to nearly 4 in., sheaths 

 4 to 8 lines long. Flower-heads 1 to 1^ lines across; involucral 

 bracts f by i line ; sepals of female flower ^ by 1 to ^ line ; petals 

 ^ line ; sepals of male flower -^.7 by J^ to -^^ line, pedestal 

 between sepals and petals i line. 



Near E. abrjssinicum Hochst. but distinguished by its narrower 

 and narrowly pointed bracts, markedly hairy receptacle, etc. 



PuNGO Andongo.— Plentiful, but seen in one place only, in boggy 



VOT-. ir. 7 



