Eriocaulon. 



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glabrae, aridae, hyalino-pallide stramineae, cito reflexae, floribus vix breviores; bracteae 

 flores stipantes, spathulato-lanceolatae, acutiusculae, dorso superiore sparsissime pilosulae, 

 glabrescentes, pallide stramineae, flores aequantes; receptaculum glabrum; flos q?: 

 sepala 3, basi vel ad medium in spatham antice fissam connata, oblongo-spathulata, 

 acutiuscula, dorso puberula, sufflavidulo-hyalina, lateralia vix navicularia ; petalorum tubus 

 lobis 3, anguste lineari-spathulatis, parvis, perspicue inaequalibus, albidis, glanduligeris, 

 pilosis instructus; antherae nigrae; flos Q: sepala Ulis floris q 1 subaequalia; petala 

 lineari-cuneata db obtusa, apice pilosula et glanduligera, subhyalina. 

 N. Australien: Port Darwin (Schultz n. 288). 



159. E. Zollingerianum Koern. in Linnaea XXVII. (1856) 682. — • Folia caes- 

 pitosa, linearia, longe obtusiuscula, acuminata, glabra, pellucida, fenestrato-7 — I 1 nervia, 

 ü — 8 cm longa, 2 — 3,5 mm lata. Pedunculi pauci, glabri, herbacei, striati, 12 — 30 cm 

 alti; vaginae arctae, oblique fissae, ore obtusae, persistenter integrae, glabrae, 4 — 5,5 cm 

 longae; capitula ovato-globosa, flavida, glabra, 2 Va — 4 mm lata, 4 — 5 Y2 mm ' longa ; 

 bracteae involucrantes ovatae, obtusae, glabrae, aridae, flavidae, disco breviores; brac- 

 teae flores stipantes late cuneato-obovatae, acuminato-cuspidatae, glabrae, rigidulae ; re- 

 ceptaculum vix glabriusculum ; flos tf:- sepala — in spatham antice fissam connata, 

 cuneato-oblonga, obtusa, glabra, albida; petalorum tubus apice lobis 3 inaequalibus, 

 ciliolatis, glanduligeris instructus; antherae nigrae; flos Q: sepala 3, naviculari-carinata, 

 carina alata, crassiuscula, tertia rudimentaria, linearia, membranacea, decidua; petala 3 

 libera, lineari-spathulata, obtusiuscula, pilosula, eglandulosa, albida, vix inaequalia. 



Java: Im Schlamm an einem Waldflusse nahe Tjikoya (Zollinger n. 333 — 

 blühend im Juli). 



160. E. Gilgianum Ruhl. in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXVII. (1899) 84; N. E. Br. in 

 Oliv. Fl. trop. Afr. VIII. (1901) 257. — E. ciliisepalum Rendle, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 



Fig. 13. A Eriocaulon Gilgianum Ruhl. Habitus. — B — C E. longipetalum Rendle. B Habitus. 

 G Pedunculus. — DE. Welwitschii Rendle f. pygmaea, habitus. — E — N E. pulchellum Koern. 

 E Habitus. F Bractea involucrans. G Bractea florem stipans. H Floris <5 calyx. J Flos (5 

 sepalis remotis. K Floris Q sepalum posticum. L Floris Q scpalum laterale. M Floris Q petalum. 



N Pistillum. (Icones originariae.) 



II. (1899) 98; N. E. Br. in Th. Dyer, Fl. trop. Afr. VIII. (1901) 256. — Dichrolejris 

 pusilla Welw. Apont. (1859) 542. — Folia caespitosa, filiformi-linearia, acuta, 1 nervia, 

 glabra, 0,8 — 3 cm longa, medio y 2 — */ 4 mm lata. Pedunculi pauci aggregati, filiformi- 

 tenuissimi, glabri, 1 1 /- 2 — 4 cm longi; vaginae laxiusculae, oblique fissae, ore acutae, 



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