102 XXVI, ERiocAULACE^. [Eriocaulon 



sepals cuneate to cuneate-oblong, obtuse, free, glabrous, fuscous ; 

 petals small, broadly oblong, with a dark short linear gland just 

 below the shortly hairy apex ; stamens 6, anthers dark. 



Plants 8 to IG in. high, flowering somewhat rarely. Long 

 flattened stolons which root and produce new plants at the end, 

 radiate from the centre of the leaf-rosette, and are sheathed like 

 the scapes. Leaves laxly spreading, reaching neai^ly 9 in. in 

 length, with ^ to f line greatest breadth. Scapes to 16 in. 

 long, sheaths to 3i in., flower-heads 3 to 4 lines across ; 

 involucral bracts 1^ to 1§ by 1 or scarcely 1 line; floral bracts 

 li by 1^ line or narrower. Stalk of female flower i line long ; 

 sepals i by i to § line; petals 1 to li by i line; stalk of male 

 flower ^ line ; sepals 1 line, or a little more, by ^ line ; pedestal 

 above calyx i line long ; petals l by i to nearly i line. 



Near E. rivulare Don, but distinguished by its narrow leaves, 

 larger flowers with glabrous sepals, etc. 



HuiLLA. — A perennial entirely submerged herb, with flower-heads 

 just emerging when mature. Plentiful in cold rather rapidly flowing 

 mountain streams at Morro de Lopollo, but somewhat rarely flowering. 

 Forms a widely spreading very green carpet beneath the water. A 

 few fruiting specimens in Dec. 1859 ; in bud middle of May 1860. 

 No. 2458. 



2. P^PALANTHUS Mart. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 1022. 



1. P. Wahlbergii Kbrn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. iii. pt. 1, p. 459 

 (1863) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 504. 



HuiLLA. — Laxly csespitose, subflaccid, heads dull yellow. Somewhat 

 rare in spongy Sphaginmi bogs near streams at Morro de Monino ; 

 Jan. 1860. No. 2454. Marshy, scarcely spongy, wooded meadows 

 between Lopollo and Monino (or Moninho) growing with Burmannia 

 and Anaf/allis jndcheUa Welw. (No. 276 in herb.) ; in fr. Nov. and 

 Dec. 1859. No. 2455. Heads tawny gold. Near the spongy banks of 

 the river Quipumpunhine near Humpata. In leaf without flower ; 

 beginning of June 1860. No. 2455i. Coll. Carp. 1064 (no notes). 



2. P. Welwitsehii Eendle sp. nov. 



A very small plant, acaulescent, with a rosette of short flat 

 linear-tapering acute subi'igid leaves generally about half the 

 length of the scapes ; scapes numerous, filiform, sparsely hairy, 

 especially above the middle ; sheath with a tuft of white hairs at 

 the base, margins united to the middle, apex blunt ; flower-heads 

 shortly campanulate or more spreading and almost disciform, 

 involucre shining white, disc chestnut-brown, monoecious, few- 

 flowered with generally 5 peripheral female flowers and 2 central 

 male ; receptacle very hairy, truncately obconical ; involucral 

 bracts exceeding the disc, lanceolate to ovate, subacute, glabrous ; 

 floral bracts oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, subacute ; female 

 flowers sessile, sepals yellowish, very concave, linear-oblong to 

 oblong, blunt, margin sparsely pilose, the odd one sometimes 

 shorter with a truncate base and more haiiy margin; petals 



