90 



W. Ruhland. — Eriocaulaceae. 



flavidula; pelala 3, oblanceolato-spathulata, angusla, obtusiuseula, pilosa, plus minus 

 glanduligera, albida. (Fig. 9). 



Ost-Indien: Bengalen, Khasia Hills, Birma etc. und Ceylon, weit in Sümpfen und 



Gewässern verbreitet. Nach Hooker auch 

 in Cochinchina vorkommend. 



N. Australien: Port Darwin (Fr. 

 Schultz n. 669 u. 75). 



Nota. Species capitulis latis, villosis inter 

 affines insignis. Specimina australiensia equidem 

 ab indicis distinguere nequeo. 



135. E. intermedium Koern. in Lin- 

 naea XXVII. (1856) 601. — E. setaceum 

 auct. (nee. L!). — Caulis elongatus subsim- 

 plex, tenuis, usque 40 cm longus, i — 2 mm 

 crassus. Folia capillari-linearia, fenestrato- 

 uninervia, glabra, pellucida, 4 — 8 cm longa. 

 Pedunculi in apice caulis per complures vel 

 multos umbellato-fasciculati, plerumque in- 

 aequales, 6 striati, glabri, torti, virescentes, 

 6 — 1 cm longi vel longiores; vaginae laxae. 

 oblique fissae, ore obtuso demum incisae, 

 glabrae, fenestratae, usque 3V2 cm longae; 

 capitula demum depresso-subglobosa, glabra, 

 nigrescentia, 2 — 3 mm lata; bracteae in- 

 volucrantes late obovatae, rotundato-obtusae, 

 glabrae, coneavae, discum non aequantes; 

 bracteae flores stipantes euneato-obovatae, 

 acutae, glabrae, omnes griseae; reeeptaculum 

 pilosum; flos q? : sepala alte in spatham 

 antice fissam connata, oblonga, lere truncato- 

 obtusa, glabra, grisea; petalorum tubus 

 apice lobis 3, parum inaequalibus, parvis, 

 vix puberulis, glanduligeris vel eglandulosis 

 instruetus; flos Q: sepala 3, obovata, obtusa 

 glabra, coneava, fusco-grisea ; petala spa- 

 thulato-lanceolata, acutiuscula, intus pilosa, 

 plerumque eglandulosa, albida, vix inaequalia. 



Ost-Indien: Malabar, Quilon (Wightj. 

 Ceylon (Walker etc.). 



136. E. biflstulosum van Heurck et 

 Muell. Arg. in van Heurck, Observ. bot. 

 (1870) 105; Dur. et Schinz, Conspect. Fl. 

 Afr. V. (1895) 502; Ruhl. in Engler's Bot. 

 Jahrb. XXVII. (1 899) 75 ; N. E. Br. in Th. 

 Dyer, Fl. trop. Afr. VIII. (1901) 239. — 

 E. fluitans Bak. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XX. 

 (1893) 2 27: Dur. et Schinz, Consp. Fl. afr. 

 V. (1895) 502; Ruhl. in Engler's Jahrb. 

 XXVII. (1893) 74. — E. limosum Engl, et 

 Ruhl. in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXVII. (1899) 

 71. — E. Schweinfurtkii Engl, et Ruhl. 

 1. c. 74. — Caulis elongatus, pauciramosus, 

 fluitans, dense foliosus. Folia capillari-linea- 

 ria, subulata, fenestrato-1 nervia, pellucida, 



Fig. 9. Eriocmdon setaceum L. A Habitus. 

 D Capitulum. C Folium. (Icones originariae.) 



