Eriocaulon. IQ 5 



lanceolata, zh acuta, profunde concava, dorso late et crasse alato-carinata, glabriuscula, 

 olivaceo-nigrescentia; petala 3, multo minora, linearia, eglandulosa, intus pilosa, albida; 

 Stylus brevissimus. 



Ost-Indien: Malabar, Concan etc. (Stocks, Huegel etc.). 



171. E. Thwaitesii Koern. in Linnaea XXVII. (1856) 627; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 India VI. (1891) 583; Hook. f. in Trim. Handb. Fl. Ceylon V. (19 00) 6. — Folia 

 erecto-caespitosa, subulato-linearia, glabra, plana, pellucida, versus basin fenestrato-4 — 

 7nervia, in sicco obscure viridia, 4 — 5 cm longa, medio 1 — 1 1 2 nun lata. Pedunculi 

 pauci, striati, vix torti, glabri, virides, 5 — 8 cm longi; vaginae oblique lissae, praesertim 

 apice laxiusculae, ore acuminato dz integrae, glabrae, non fenestratae, 1 3 /4 — 3 cm 

 longae^ capitula obconica, disco albo-pubenila, apice 3 — 4 mm lata, pauciflora (juvenilia?); 

 bracteae involucrantes rectangulari-oblongae, interiores angustiores, truncatae, summo 

 dorso levissime puberulae, discum perpaullo superantes, flavido-vlrescentes; bracteae 

 llores stipantes oblongo-cuneatae, acutae vel acutiusculae, dorso summo vix puberulae, 

 ceterum involucrantibus similes, breviores; receptaculum dense pilosum; flos q^: sepala 2, 

 libera, oblique oblongo-obovata, obtusa, glabra, atro-viridia ; petalorum tubus apice lobis 

 subnullis vel minimis, levissime puberulis, glanduligeris ornatus; flos Q: sepala 2, lanceo- 

 lata, acuta, naviculari-concava, anguste carinato-alata, crassiuscula, olivascentia, apice 

 vix puberula; petala longissime pilosa ut in spec. praecedente. 



Ost-Indien: Nilghiri Hills (Schmidt). 

 Ceylon: Ambagamuwa, Kitulgala (Thwaites). 



172. E. Neesianum Koern. in Linnaea XXVII. (1856) 62 8. — E. Thwaitesii 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. India VI. (1891) 583; Hook. f. in Trim. Handb. Fl. Ceylon V. (1900) 

 6. — Folia caespitosa, latiuscule linearia, apice angustata, acuto-obtusiuscula, glabra, 

 plana, basi fenestrato-12 — 15nervi excepta impellucida, in sicco obscure viridia, 4 — 

 5 cm longa, medio 2 — 3 mm lata. Pedunculi numerosi aggregati, glabri, 4costati, vix 

 torti, virescentes, 7 — 12 cm longi; vaginae e basi arcta sensim laxiusculae, oblique fissae, 

 ore acuminato-subintegrae, glabrae, striulatae, impellucidae, 3 — Scmlongae; capitula hemi- 

 sphaerica, albo-villosula, paullo echinulata, circ. 4 mm lata; bracteae involucrantes 

 quadrato-cuneatae, truncatae, ciliolatae, ceterum glabrae, demum glaberrimae, flavesccntes, 

 discum aequantes et ei appressae; bracteae flores stipantes obovatae, obtusiusculao, 

 summo dorso leviter puberulae, griseolae; receptaculum pilosulum; flos q 1 : sepala 2, 

 fere ad medium (antice minus) connata, rectangulari-cuneata, obtusissimo-subtruncata, 

 apice vix ciliolata, ceterum glabra, griseo-albida; petalorum tubus apice lobis minimis, 

 puberulis, glanduligeris instructus; flos Q: sepala latius alata et acuta, celerum ut in 

 specie praecedente. 



Ceylon: Bamboda (Gardner n. 936 in herb. Berol.). 



173. E. Vanheurckii Muell. Arg. in van Heurck, Obs. botan. I. (1870) 98. — 

 Caulis perbrevis. Folia lanceolato-linearia, obtuse acuminata, glabra, pellucida, basi 

 l'enestrato- circ. 35nervia, costis validioribus circ. 9 cum 2 — 3 debilioribus alternan- 

 tibus distincte striata, 8 — 12 cm longa, 3 — 7 mm lata. Pedunculi circ. 10 aggregati, 

 acute 5-angulares, sulcis latis et obtusis, tenues, rigidi, glabri, torti, 15 — 25 cm circ. 

 longi; vaginae laxae, glabrae, ore longe acuminatae, limbo destitutae, pedunculis dimidio 

 breviores; capitula cylindrico-globosa, pilis brevissimis niveis pulveraceo-vestita, nigro- 

 nivea, 4 — 5 mm lata; bracteae involucrantes arcte appressae, semiorbiculari-ovatae, 

 rotundato-obtusae, imo apice obsolete acutatae, dorso pulveraceo-albo-pilosae; bracteae 

 flores stipantes late rhomboideo-obovatae, superne cochleato-incurvae et breviter acutatae, 

 ulivaceae, dorso superne niveo-subpulveraceae; receptaculum pilosum; flos (jf: sepala 2, 

 libera, liguliformia, obtusa, navicularia, olivacea, superne pulveraceo-puberula ; petalorum 

 tubus apice lobis 3 subaequalibus, minimis, papillosis, ceterum glabris; flos Q: sepala 2, 

 late incurvo-semii'hombea, apiculata, carinata, dorso late alato-carnuloso-crassa, olivacea, 

 superne pulveraceo-puberula; petala 3, angustissime spathulata, longissime pilosa; germen 

 tricoccum; Stigmata 3, filiformia. 



