Eriocaulon.] ERIOCAULE® (Brown), 58 
Distris. That of the Order. Species about 150. 
Flower-heads 1-14 lin. diam., dark fuscous ; bracts, 
sepals, and petals glabrous; leaves subulate . (1) abyssinicum. 
Flower-heads 2 lin. diam., dark fuscous ; bracts and 
Lawn tea di ciliate; sepals aan: leaves linear- 
(2) transvaalicum. 
Plower-hends 8 lin, or more in di iam 
es a toa tae fine acn si poin 
ae 
long; flowe ie Jweill 
spahulatenobo ate, dark fuscous; recep- 
tacle villor ae (3) Bauri, 
Leaves 11-33 ong; flowering ‘bracts oblong- 
obovate, ae pm nish with an olive- ae 
= = each side above the middle; re- , 
e villous (4) sonderianum. 
ceptac 
Leaves ia rook ring toa ‘very fine point, often 
obtuse 
Biekves 3- 10 i in. long, obtuse; sepals of the 
female fi d 
‘ an 
keel, of t the male flowers caneate-obovate, 
very obtuse, Ras keeled ; ape 8 more 
or ng villou we (5) Dregei. 
Lea }- of in. noone subobtuse ; sepals 
vennded on the back, gibbous in the female 
flowers, not kel 3 receptacle with ver ry : 
minute tet i it (6) africanum. 
Leaves 10-13 i Tae, subacute ; ‘sepa als of 
oth sexes siaiiee , obovate, obtuse, a ze 
and denticulate at the apex, not keeled ... (7) Woodii. 
1. E. abyssinicum Laci in Flora, 1845, bid 8 leaves not 
very numerous, 4-9 ong, is Jin. thiek, sv €, ac 
glabrous; scapes s ly ‘to a plant, 7 84 in, long, filiform, obtusely 
s 
hagas I~11 her n dism., at first subglobose, poeta oblong, 
monoecious, the sexes intermingled ; involucral - ets 3! 
1 lin, broad, oblong, acute, thin, pallid, glabrous; flowering bracts 
i lin. long, 2 lin, broad, ] anceolate, acute, cancave, “hist pte 
or dark Tas cous; rec ceptacle conical or oblong, glabrous ; 
flowers subsessile ; sepals 3, free, 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
shaped, rounded on the back, fuscous, or dark olive-green, glabrous ; 
ti i 
filiform branches ; male flowers -seaupmegews sepals 3, all free, or two 
or all of them more or less connate, 3 lin. long, : 
oblong, acute, fuscous, quite glabrous, entirely wanting in some of 
the central flowers ; stipes between the sep “6, 
than half as ae as the Lome ; petals Ap rmpoms? ; stamens 4 
mca Region ; Somerset Div. ; summit of Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 2104! 
