1126 BENGAL PLANTS. | Eriocaulon. 
exceeds its flower, and is dorsally hoary near the apex. 3 Flowers 
stipitate. Sepals 3, free or connate, hyaline, deciduous, rarely 2 
or 0. Petals 8, connate in a stipitate, funnel-shaped, minutely 
3- cag ee one lobe sometimes longer than the others. 
r fewer, siserted ‘ib the base of the corolla; filaments 
= rt, pide unequal; anthers didymous, 2-celled, usually ‘nels 
Pistillode 0. % Flowers sessile or stipitate. Sepals 3, rarely 2, 
1 or 0, unequal, usually concave, deciduous. Petals 38, unequal, 
broad or narrow, persistent, with often a black spot on the limb, 
forming a corolla sessile on the calyx or stipitate. Ovary superior, 
sessile or stipitate, globose, 3-lobed and # "A cells each with 
1 pendulous ovule; style rather short; s 8, erect, filiform. 
Fruit a small, membranous, 3-celled, As tes capsule. Seeds 
very minute, oblong or ellipsoid, smooth, striated, or ribbed ; 
albumen floury; embryo minute. 
4024. Eriocaulon Linn. 
Characters those of the order, 
aire ; stem submerged, elongated, branched, nip leafy, upper 
es floatin es capill pillus-Naiadis. 
Involucral bracts sub-2-seriate, cuneate, spre viding: shining ; 
floral scarious, obovoid, tip truncately rounded ; sepals in flowers 
Cr TiCVUnL eRe ee sol ee a aie ou ane 
fapalsedd tae oblong, pels passing gradually into 
oblong-lanceolate, subacute floral, all scarious; sepals in male 
flower 3, in female 2-1 or ane ..Sieboldianum. 
Receptacle more or less villous ; bata ensiform ; bracts all scarious, 
yaline, involucral oblong-obtuse, passing into the cuneate-obova 
densely imbricate floral; sepals in male flower 2, in female 3 
zetorum. 
01 
cee bracts alone glabrous, floral bearded or pubescent; receptacle 
villou 
*Pe aeniat rootstock elongated, slender or stout ; leaves ensiform OF 
broadly subulate ae 112 27] 
+Female flowers distinctly pedice led :—[p. 1127] 
tInvolucral bracts dived or spreading, never reflexed; bea 
hemispheric, grey ; leaves pale grey-green, —— 1127] 
spheric, grey; Bale prey-green, opeaue [o- N27 
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