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Eriocaulon. | ERIOCAULE# (Brown). 57 
blackish-green, ciliate and clothed on the back with white hairs: 
more than 1 lin. long, 1-1 lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, white, 
ith an oblong or subquadrate black gland near the apex and ciliate 
with white hairs ; ovary trigonous, glabrous ; style with 3 filiform 
branches; male flowers with glabrous pedicels 34—1 lin. long 
sepals 3, ‘about 2 $ lin. long, 3 lin. broad, cuneate-oblong, obtuse or 
subtruneate, very concave, rounded on the _ back, blackish-green, 
with white hairs at the tips; petals 1-8 lin. long,- 2 + Jin. broad, 
obovate, obtuse, ciliate and hairy on the inner face at the apex, 
white, with an oblong black gland a little below it; stamens 6; 
anthers white. Steud. S) ynops. Glum. ii. 272 ; Kérnicke in Linnea, 
XXVli. 649. 
EASTERN REGION: Griqualand East; banks the Umzimkulu River, 
near Ciydesdale and near Handcocks Drift, 2600 ft., Tyson, 1299! 2551! 
pony a and Bolus He rb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1203! Natal ; Umgeni River, 
ear Pi ietermaritzburg, Krauss, 375! 
7. E, Woodii (N. E. Brown); leaves 10-13 in. long, 14-22 lin. 
broad, linear, tapering to an acute or subacute point, flat and flaceid, 
glabrous ; scapes 1-5 toa plant, 1-14 ft. long, about 1 lin. thick, terete, 
striate in the dried state, glabrous ; basal sheath about 4 in. long, 
2—4-fid at the apex, glabrous ; heads about 32 lin. diam. , Moncecious, 
hemispherical ; involucral bracts about 14 lin. long, 3] lin. broad, 
elliptic, obtuse, whitish-brown, glabrous ; flowering bracts 1} lin. 
long, 2 lin. broad, obovate, acute, thin, flattish with the apex 
incurved, dark fuscous or blackish with a few, short, white hairs on 
the back and margins ; female flowers shortly pedicellate ; sepals 
2—3 lin. long, rather more than 4 lin. broad, obovate, obtuse or 
subtruncate, apiculate, more or less irregularly denticulate, flattish 
with white hai he back and margins; stipes between the 
sepals and petals very short; petals 3, free, equal or unequal, 
HE lin, one; a or narrowly aes white, igri 
sepals 3, free or slightly connate at the base, like those of the fendi 
flowers, but rather less denticulate at the apex, and more densely 
ciliate and hairy on the back; stipes between the sepals and pe 
very short, or half as long as the sepals ; petals like those of the 
female fowites but much atialter j stamens 6, or by abortion fewer ; 
anthers white. 
erikcctad Region : Natal; ina — near Murchison, Wood, 3053! 
us. no 
ment, but the remarkably A sisted Mapes genes nel ahiibguieh this 
from all other South Africa: 
