io EriocaulonecB. \EHocaulon. 



globose or columnar, sparsely villous, bracteoles oblanceolate 

 or spathulate, acuminate or cuspidate, hyaline, dorsally villous 

 with flexuous hairs; male fl. : — sep. 3, 2 ovate, connate, tips 

 villously penicillate, cor.-lobes minute, stam. 6 ; fern. fl. 

 stipitate, sep. 3, narrow, 2 concave, dorsally villous, one flat; 

 cor. sessile or stipitate, pet. 3, very unequal, oblanceolate, one 

 much the longest, villous all over, two shorter and much 

 narrower, all usually with a black spot on the disk ; seeds very 

 minute, oblong or subglobose, pale yellow, quite smooth, 

 shining. 



Low country, in damp places, in both regions, and up to 4000 ft. ; 

 very common. Fl. Oct., Feb., July. 



Throughout India. 



A very pretty little species, with very white heads. Often so abundant 

 as to make the ground look as if covered with snow. The leaves usually 

 pink in colour when dry. 



16. E. collinum, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 584 (1893). 



E. hizuloefolium, Thw. Enum. 341 (non Mart.). C. P. 796 (1000). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 584. 



Annual (?); stems densely tufted; 1. 1-3I in. by T V- \ in., 

 narrowly linear or subulate, obtuse, 1-9-veined, opaque or 

 translucent; scapes many, 3-12 in., slender, rigid, flexuous, 

 7-ribbed, sheath stout, sometimes as long as the 1., tip obtuse, 

 broadly membranous ; heads globose, \ in. diam., dark grey, 

 base at length intruded; bracts small, outer very short, 

 orbicular or cuneate-obovate, scarious, pale, dorsally hoary, 

 or the outer glabrous, at length reflexed; recept. hemispheric 

 or columnar, densely villous with long hairs; bracteoles 

 cuneately spathulate or obovate, cuspidately acuminate, 

 membranous, dorsally hoary with short white hairs; male 

 fl. stipitate, sep. 3, linear-oblong, concave, cor.-lobes 3, one 

 much the longest, exserted beyond the sep. but not beyond 

 the bracteoles, stam. 6; fern. fl. stipitate, sep. 3, two cymbi- 

 form, one flat, cor. sessile or shortly stipitate, pet. narrowly 

 oblanceolate, ciliate, ov. sessile; seeds -^ in. long, oblong, 

 smooth, pale yellow-brown, closely minutely papillose. 



Montane zone; rare. Ramboda; Ambagamuwa; Horton Plains. Fl. 

 Dec-March. 



Also in the Nilgiri Mountains. 



17. E. Sieboldianum. Sieb. and Zucc. ex Stend. Syn. PL Cyp. 

 272 (1855). 



E. sexangulare, Burm. Fl. Zeyl. 31 ; Moon, Cat. 9; Thw. Enum. 341 ; 

 Trim. Syst. Cat. 99 (non L.). C. P. 795. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 577. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 9, f. 4. 



Annual, tufted, stemless; 1. 1-2 in., subulate or setaceous, 

 3-5-veined, glabrous, opaque or translucent, sheath very short, 



