576 OLXXi. BEioCAULL^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Erioeaulon. 



India; Huegel. N. Can aba, Tinai Ghat, alt. 2000 ft., in streams and pools, 

 Talbot 



Stem very short. Leaves 6-15 hj i-J in., exactly linear, opaque, 7-11-nerved, 

 nerves very slender. Seape shorter or longer than the leaves ; sheath 2-2^ in., tip 

 obtnse membranous. Heads J in. diam. , black and white, rather few-fld. ; recep- 

 tacle convex, glabrous ; invol. bracts green, much shorter than the floral ; male 

 sepals densely bearded, petals villous, one much largest ; stamens 6 j fem. sepals 

 short oblong concave, tips truncate bearded ; petals subequal, glands large. Seeds 

 very minute, subglobose, pale yellowish, shining. — Male petals and stamens some- 

 times sessile between the sepals, the conical stipes being very short or 0. 



** Petals of male fl. aubeqaal, or one rather larger, often very obscure, 

 none produced beyond the floral bracts. 



t Involncral bracts woolly or hairy (sometimes glabrous in E. Brovmi- 

 arnm). Beceptacle villous in all. 



17. E. Wightianum, -Mar*. mlFaZZ.PZ.^s.iJa)-. iii. 28; Oai. 6067; 

 tall, stout, leaves broadly linear or ensiform, tips obtnse, heads globose 

 snow-white, invol. bracts pale cuneiform reflexed tips truncate or rounded, 

 floral oblanceolate acuminate strongly cuspidate villous, male petals 

 small subequal, fem. fl. sessile, sepals narrow concave, bearded, petals 

 obovate or oblanceolate villous with very long hairs, ovary sessile. Kunth 

 Enum. iii. 563; Steud. 8yn. PI. Gyp. 271 ; Koem. in Linnxa, xxvii. 658 

 {excl. syn.) E. sexangulare, Serb. Meyne. 



Tenasseeim, WaUich, &c. Peou, Kurs. The Concan, Stocks, &c. CETiiON, 

 ascending to 7000 ft. (C.P. 378, 3382). 



Sootstock often as thick as the thumb. Leaves 4-10 by i in. (and scapes), 

 glabrous or sparsely hairy, many -nerved. Scapes many, stout, ribbed and deeply 

 grooved; sheaths with long free green tips. Beads ^ in. diam., subsquarrose from 

 the prominent tips of the fl. bracts; invol. bracts coriaceous at the base ; receptacle 

 convex villous; flowers pedicelled; male petals minute in the Tenasserim specimens, 

 small subequal in the Concan; stamens 6. Seeds globosely oblong, dark red-brown, 

 papiUose.^Pem. fl. sometimes 4-merous. 



18. E. Brownianum, Mart, in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 25, t. 248 ;' 

 Cat. 6066; tall, slender, leaves narrowly Unear or ensiform acuminate 

 glabrous or hairy, scapes solitary very tall, heads i in. diam. globose or 

 hemispheric snow-white, invol. bracts obovate-oblong or cuneiform rigid 

 spreading at length reflexed, outer floral cuneiform inner spathulate 

 obtuse, male petals small, fem. fl. pedicelled, petals narrow villous with 

 very long straight hairs, ovary subsessUe. Kunth Enum. iii. 562 ; Steud. 

 Syn. Fl. Gyp. 271 ; Kcern. in Linnsea, xxvii. 663. E. nilagirense, Steud. 

 I. e. ; Kceirn. I. c. 661. 



Khasia HiliS, alt. 4-6000 ft., common. Munnipoee, Watt. Nilghibi 

 HiLi/S, Wight, 6a/rdner. Ceilon, Gardner, ascending to 7000 ft., Thwaites (0 P 

 377, 1001). 



Bootstoch stout. Leaves 6-18 by -ja— s i°-, many-nerved, and scapes glabrous 

 pubescent or copiously hairy. Scape 1-2 ft., ribbed and deeply grooved ; sheath 

 very long, tip acuminate green. Meads sometimes depressed and concave beneath 

 the stiff pale or dark invol. bracts J— J in. long, equalling the flowers ; receptacle 

 flat or convex; male sepals free or connate, tips bearded, petals subequal; fem. 

 sepals cymbiform, dorsally hirsute, acute or cuspidate. Seeds oblong or subglobose, 

 papillose and striate. — The hairs of the fem. petals are much longest in the Khasian 

 plant. 



