56 ERIOCAULE® (Brown). [ Eriocaulon. 
or acute, concave, slightly and obtusely keeled on the back, pale 
fuscous or olivaceous, darker and densely bearded with white ‘hairs 
at the apex ; rece tacle convex or globose, flat in the male heads, 
more or less villous; female flowers with short glabrous pedicels ; 
sepals 11 lin. long, 2-2 lin. broad, and 3—% lin. deep from front to 
back, lanceolate, boat-shaped as viewed from the front, falcate- 
lanceolate or semicordate as viewed from the side, acute, with a 
broad, acute, entire or toothed keel, dark fuscous or dark olive-green, 
ciliate with long hairs on the margins, with a few white hairs at the 
apex and sometimes some on the back; stipes between the sepals 
and petals about 1 lin, long; petals 11-14 lin. long, 3-1 lin, broad, 
oblanceolate, obtuse, rather thick, white, ciliate and hairy on the 
ae face at the apex, and with a linear black gland a little below 
; ovary trigonous, glabrous ; style with 3 filiform branches ; male 
aa with glabrous pedicels a3 lin. long; sepals 3, all free or 
variously connate, 3—1 ong, 4-1 lin. broad, cuneate-oblong ot 
cuneate-obovate, obtuse, ne thin, not at all keeled on the back, 
dark olive-green, densely bearded with white sn at the apex 
stipes between the sepals and petals 3}~—1 lin. long; petals 3, free, 
unequa!}, in some of the flowers well dev eloped Bae the dorsal or 
larger one 2—11 lin. long, 1-1 lin. broad, euneate-oblong or narrowly 
obovate, obtuse, thick, white, glandular, ciliate and hairy as in the 
female flower ers, In others the petals are very small or rudimentary, 
with a dense fringe of white hairs at their apex ; stamens 6 ; anthers 
black. Steud. ‘Synops. Glum. ii. 272; Kérnicke in ’ Linnea, 
XXVii. 672. 
obi AFRICA: gee hey Beco 4101! 
Bas Reeion: Natal mp at Clairmont, Wood, 1427: among 
cea in the bed of ia Umbilo River. 1000 ft., Sanderson, 904! 
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leaves are neers longer, pe the aan of the fecnata flowers are neti) 
semicordate at the base, and have a much broader, more distinctly tooth 
keel than those of Droge’ s specimen. But I believe these differences are d0e 
to luxuriance of growth, and are not of specific value, as the plants agree 
all other points. 
6. E. africanum (Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 340) ; sev 4-22 in. 
long, }~1} lin. broad, linear-subulate, subacute or hat obtuse 
at the apex, concave down the face ; scapes 1-4 toa pees 218 in. 
ts 4-1 lin. thick, rai “pigrais in the dried a i basal sheath 
ma Ain invelucess peer 8 jh te pte) 12 lin. bead, elliptie ot 
orbicular, obtuse, a glabrous ; ; flowering bracts 1-11 lin. long; 
2-8 lin. broad, obovate, obtuse, or the inner ones annie: — 
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papilliform points — it; female flowers shortly pedicellate i 
3, free, about % lin, long, boat-shaped, rounded on the bac 
sepals 
and somewhat gibbous, acute or subacute and incurved at the ape*; — 
