JSriocaulon.] CLixi. eriocaolej;. (J. D. Hooker.) 579 



25. E. oryzetorum, Mart, in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 28; Wall. Gat. 

 6069 ; leaves ensiform, scapes many short or tall, heads yellow globose or 

 ovoid, bracts all scarions hyaline, invol. oblong obtuse passing into the 

 cuneate-obovate cuspidate densely imbricate floral, fem. fl. shortly pedi- 

 celled, petals slender. Kunth. Enwm. iii. 552 ; Steud. Si/n. PI. Gyp. 270 ; 

 Kcem. in Linnaea, xxvii. 639. E. Hamiltonianum, Mart. I. c. 29 ; Wall. 

 Gat. 6075 ; Kunth I. c. 



Tbopical HlMAiATA, from Kumaon to Sikklin j ASSAM, Sidhet, Pbgit, 

 Chdta Nagpobe, SiNOAPOEE and Penang. 



Rootstock short, stout, or 0. Leaves 1-3 by \-\ in., spongy, very many-nerved, 

 narrowed to a truncate coriaceous tip. Scwpes 8-18 in. (shorter in dwarf states), 

 soft, flexuous. Heads i-J in. diam., straw-colrd., base intruded ; receptacle conical 

 or columnar, densely villous ; male sepals 2, tips fimbriate or glabrous ; petals 

 minute or ; stamens 6 ; fem. fl. pedicelled, sepals 3, slender, caducous ; petals 

 filiform to oblanceolate, naked or ciliolate, caducous ; ovary with petals stipitiite 

 above the sepals. Seeds pale yellow, very minute, smooth. — B. Samiltonianum is 

 certainly an immature state of ort/eetorum. 



26. E. stellulatum, Koern. in Linnxa, xxvii. 620 ; leaves mem- 

 branous broadly subulate or linear, scapes many hairy, heads globose, 

 bracts all many times longer than the flowers white soarious stel- 

 lately spreading and finely acuminate, involncral ovate-lanceolate, floral 

 narrowly lanceolate, fem. fl. sessile, petals oblanceolate ciliate with long 

 hairs, ovary with petals sessile. 



The CoNOAN, Eugel, Stocks. ? Bengai, (Herb. Kew). 



Leaves 1-2 in. by ^-J in. broad at the base, tapering to a point, very many- 

 nerved. Scapes 2-7 in., hairs spreading ; sheaths shorter than the leaves, tips long 

 free acuminate. Heads |— J in. diam., perfectly glabrous except the conical recep- 

 tacle and ciliate fem. petals ; male sepals 2, free or connate, glabrous, hyaline ; petals 

 very short ; stamens 6 ; fem. fl. sessile ; sepals 3, dimidiate-ovate falcately incurved 

 with long slender recurved points, dorsally crenately winged, petals narrowly ob- 

 lanceolate, ciliate. Seeds dark chesnut, smooth. 



27. E. echinulatum, Maa-t. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 29; Wall. 

 Cat. 6082 ; leaves subulate opaque finely acuminate, scapes many obscurely 

 grooved, heads small globose, bracts all white rigid stellately spreading 

 subulate-lanceolate, floral many times longer than the dimerous subsessile 

 flowers, ovary with petals stipitate. Kunth JEnum. iii. 568 ; Steud, Syn, 

 PI. Gyf. 272 ; Koern. in lAnnsea, xxvii. 519. 



Tavoy ; Mergui, Gomez, Griffith. — Disteib. Tonkin, China. 



Leaves many, f-1 in., erecto-patent, spongy. Scapes rather stout, 1-5 in., 

 terete, shining; sheath short. Heads J-j in. diam., straw-colrd.; invol. bracts 

 ovate, narrowed into a slender rigid point; floral longer, narrowed at the base; 

 receptacle villous ; male sepals connate, glabrous ; petals minute, deformed ; stamens 

 5-6 ; fem. sepals falcately lanceolate, clawed, dorsally crenately winged below the 

 middle, margins spinulose-serrate ; petals 0. 



28. E. minutum, Hook. f. ; very small, leaves subulate or filiform 

 acute or obtuse, scapes very many, sheaths membranous and inflated above, 

 heads minute subglobose few-fld. pale, invol. bracts erect ovate-lanceolate- 

 acuminate scarious, floral oblanceolate acute or cuspidate, fem. fl. subses- 

 sile, sepals falcate winged or keeled, petals 1-3 very slender or 0, ovary 

 with petals sessile or substipitate. 



The CoNCAN, iato. Kysorts, Sir F. Adams. Ea jptttan A, on Mt. Aboo, SiocAs,. 

 Vuthie. 



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