Eriocaulon. 79 



Pedunculi complures (l — 6) aggregati, 7costati, glabri, 12 — 30 cm longi, 1 — 2 mm 

 crassi; vaginae oblique fissae, glabrae, ore acutae, integrae, 5 — 10 cmlongae; capitula 

 hemisphaerica , dein subglobosa, albo-villosa, 6 — 8 mm lata; bracteae involucrantes 

 obovato-oblongae, obtusae, exteriores multo latiores, glabrae, pallide brunneae; bracteae 

 flores stipantes lineari-oblanceolatae vel cuneato-oblongae, acutae, summo dorso dense 

 pilosae, pallide fuscidulae; receptaculum glabrum; flos <^\ sepala 3, linearia, obtusa, 

 albida, apice barbulato-pilosa; petalorum tubus apice lobis 3, oblongis, obtusis, albidis, 

 pilosis, nigro-glandulatis instructus; antherae albidae; flos Q: sepala 3, subaequalia, 

 oblonga vel cuneato-oblonga, obtusa, navicularia, albida, apice pilosula; petala anguste 

 linearia, obtusa, albida, eglandulosa, vel apice minimo-glandulata et dense barbulata. 



Afrika: Sierra Leone, in einem Bache nahe Vatemba Road (Barter); in einem 

 Bache bei Freetown (Don, Vogel). 



Nota. Species a me non visa. 



102. E. striatum Lam. Enc. III. (1789) 275, t. 50, fig. 1 ; Kunth, Enum. pl. III. 

 (1841) 561; Steud. Syn. pl. Cyp. II. (1855) 272; Koern. in Linnaea XXVII. (1856) 

 272; Ruhl. in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXVII. (1899) 77. — E. stupeum Smith in Bees, 

 Cyclop. XIII. (1809). — E. borbonicum Willd. rnscr. herb. n. 235"; Kunth 1. c. III. 

 '1841) 560; Steud. Syn. pl. Cyp. IL (1855) 272. — Folia caespitosa, lanceolato- 

 linearia vel subulato-linearia, apice ipso obtusiuscula, glabra, rigidula, pellucida, fenestrato- 

 II — 14nervia vel impellucido-chartacea , 2 — 7 cm longa, medio 1.5 — 4 mm lata. 

 Pedunculi solitarii vel perpauci aggregati, glabri, 5- — 6costati, torti, 10 — 20 cm alti ; 

 vaginae sublaxae, oblique fissae, glabrae, ore cito laceratae, rarius integrae, striulatae, 

 2 — 5 cm longae; capitula demum globosa, albo-villosa, nigro-adspersa, 5 — 6 mm lata: 

 bracteae involucrantes obovatae, obtusae, vel rotundato-obtusae, glabrae, demum inflexae, 

 viridulo-flavescentes ; bracteae flores stipantes cuneato-obovatae, cuspidatae vel breviter 

 acutae, summo dorso pilosae, carinato-naviculares, nigridae; receptaculum pilosum; 

 flos tf: sepala 3 sublibera vel basi in spatham antice fissam connata, obovata, obtusa, 

 summo dorso pilosa, concava, nigrescentia ; petalorum tubus apice lobis 3 oblongis. 

 obtusis, inaequalibus, nigro-glandulatis, intus pilosis instructus; antherae rotundae, nigrae; 

 flos Q: sepala 3, libera, obovata, acuta, superiore dorso pilosa, dorso crassa, interdum 

 subalata, nigrescentia; petala 3, libera, spathulato-oblonga, obtusa, intus pilosa, sub apice 

 fusco-glandulata, crassiuscula, albida. 



Beunion [Insel] (Bory de St. Vincent, Commerson und Baron v. d. Decken. 

 Madagascar (Thouin). 



103. E. pictum Pntsch in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2. ser. I. (1901) 1102. — Caulis 

 perbrevis. Folia e basi lata sensim angustata, acuta, longitudinaliter nervosa, vix fene- 

 strata, basi villis longis implexis circumdata, ceterum glabra, 10 — 18 mm longa, basin 

 versus 3 mm lata. Pedunculi 1 — 4, inaequilongi, sulcati, torti, glabri, 8 — 14 cm longi; 

 vaginae folia multo superantes, parum tortae, apice dilatatae, et scariosae ibique lace- 

 ratae, ca. 25 mm longae; capitula ante anthesin nigricantia, mox albo-picta, dein pilis 

 perianthii superne alba, exsiccatione compressa, 7 — 8 mm lata; bracteae involucrantes 

 ovatae, breviter acuminatae, e ima basi flavescente nigricantes ; bracteae flores stipantes 

 involucrantibus similes; flos (j 1 ; sepala 3, oblongo-spathulata, nigricantia, apice albo- 

 barbata; petala alba, longe ciliata; stamina 6; antherae atratae; flos Q: sepala elongato- 

 spathulata, albida, longe ciliata, glanduligera; Stylus longitudine germinis. 



Huilla (Dekindt). 



Nota. Non vidi; ex descriptione optima et nota cl. Fritschii ccrtissime species distincta 

 cum praecedente et sequentibus arcte afiinis. 



104. E. Baurii N. E. Br. in Th. Dyer, Fl. capens. VII. pt. I. (1897) 54; Ruhl. in 

 Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXVII. (1899) 77. — Folia caespitosa, lineari-subulala, acuta, glabra, 

 plana, 2 — V/ 2 cm longa, 2 — 3 mm lata. Pedunculi solitarii, 5 costati, glabri, 15 — 

 45 cm longi, 8 mm crassi; vaginae 2 1 / 2 — 3 1 /2 cm longae, ore demum incisae, oblique 

 fissae, glabrae, 3 — 4 cm longae; capitula subglobosa, summitate albido-villosa, 6 — 7 mm 

 lata; bracteae involucrantes obovatae, obtusae, concavae, glabrae, pallidae; bracteae 



