EriocauioitJ] Eriocaulomce. 9 



shortly stipitate, pet. spathulate or oblanceolate, dorsally 

 villous with very long- hairs, disk with a black spot, ov. sessile; 

 seeds globosely oblong or ellipsoid, tVtV m - l° n g> dark red- 

 brown, smooth, very minutely papillose. 



Montane zone; rather common. Ambagamuwa; Ramboda; N. Eliya; 

 Wattakelle. Fl. Feb. 



Also in Burma and S. India. 



14. E. Walkeri, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 583 (1893). 



E. quinquangulare, var. argenteum^ Thw. Enum. 341. C. P. 3562. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 583. 



Annual, densely tufted ; 1. much shorter than the scapes, 

 narrowly subulate, obtuse, few-veined, opaque, glistening ; 

 scapes many, 6-8 in., very slender, 7-ribbed, tip of sheath 

 broadly membranous ; head globose, or very shortly oblong, 

 \-\ in. diam., snow-white, base at length intruded; bracts 

 much shorter than the head, spreading, scarious, pale, outer 

 obovate-oblong or cuneiform, glabrous, inner oblong, tips 

 bearded; recept. hemispheric to columnar, densely clothed 

 with long white hairs, bracteoles oblanceolate, acute or cuspi- 

 dately acuminate, membranous, dorsally bearded above the 

 middle or lower with snow-white hairs ; male fl. with a short 

 crinite stipes, sep. 3, broadly spathulate, dorsally long bearded, 

 2 connate, cor. - lobes ovate, subequal, or one longer, all 

 bearded, and with a black gland on the disk, stam. 6; fern. fl. 

 on a short crinite stipes, sep. narrowly obovate or oblong, 

 obtuse, dorsally bearded, cor. sessile or shortly stipitate, pet. 

 oblanceolate, dorsally bearded with long jointed hairs, and 

 tipped with short obtuse white ones, disk of each with a black 

 gland ; seeds gV in. long, oblong or ellipsoid, orange-yellow, 

 smooth, shining, chalaza very large. 



Low country; apparently very rare. Kalutara; Batticaloa. FL 

 March. 



Endemic. 



15. E. quinquang-ulare, Z. Sp. PL 87(1753). Him-kokmota, 5, 



Herm. Mus. 20. Burm. Thes. 109. Fl. Zeyl. n. 48. Moon, Cat. 9. 

 Thw. Enum. 341. C. P. 792. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 582. Pluk. Phytcgr. t. 221, f. 7. 



Stems very short, tufted on a short rootstock; 1. 1-4 by 

 j— \ in., subulate, linear, or ensiform, acuminate, usually 

 narrowed uniformly from base to tip, often bright red-brown 

 when dry; scapes many, 1-4 in., rather stout, flexuous, sheath 

 short, tip membranous, obtuse, or rounded; heads globose, 

 \~\ in. diam., grey to snow-white, bracts very short, linear- 

 oblong to broadly oblong or cuneate, scarious, glistening, 

 at length reflexed and concealed under the head; recept 



