382 RESTIACE.E. [Enocaulon. 



ner female periantli of 3 narrow short segments, sliglitly plumose at the top. 

 Ovary 3-celled. Style long', with 3 short filiform stigmas.—^, cmitoniense. 

 Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. 219. 



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

 in Tavoy and S. China. The E. longifolium, Nees, is probably the same species witli the 

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

 ferred to it by Koei-nicke, 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.; Kwm. in Lmn^a, xxvii. 686. Veiy near the last, 

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

 Scape 1 to 11 ft. high, prominently 7-angled. Flower-heads rather larger, 

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

 in and pointed. 



Hongkong, Ilance, Wri(/Jit. Also in tropical Austraha. 



3. E. truncatum. Ham.; Koern. in Linnaa, 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, veiy thin and transparent, minutely 

 ciliate but glabrous. Outer perianths of 2 naiTow 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 filifonn stigmas. 

 Hongkong, Hance, Wright, Wllford. Widely dispersed over India from Ceylon and the 

 PeninsSa to' the Archipelago, and northward to Khasia and Silhet, the Philippines, and S. 

 China. 



4. E. cristatum, Mart.; Kcern. in Linnr^a, xxvii. 609. Leaves all ra- 

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

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

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

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

 obovate or cuneate, dark at the top and fringed with short white haii'S. 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 aU projecting beyond the scales. Style short, with 3 fili- 

 form stigmas. — E. miseruw, Koera. 1. c. 607. 



Hongkong, Hance. Common in Khasia. 



5. E. heteranthum, Benth., n. sp. Leaves all radical, veiy 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, veiy 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-subidate acute segments, fringed with a 

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

 bulate lobes. 



Hongkong, ^^«C(?, 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 



