582 CLxxi. EEioCAULB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eriocaulon. 



or cuneately oblong tips rounded, floral cuneately oblanceolate subacute, 

 fern. fl. sessile, sepals 2 oblong concave tips ciliate flat, petals oblanceo- 

 late ciliate, ovary with petals sessile. 



Westebn HiMAiiATA; Kumaon, 3-40OO ft. and Garwhal, alt. 8-9000 ft., 

 Duthie. 



Leaves ^i in., spongy, opaque, green. Scapes l-lj in., obscurely .4 -grooved; 

 sheath as long as the leaves, tip membranous. Heads subglohose; invol. bracts 

 scarious, glistening, pale or dark ; floral dark, sprinkled with white hairs ; receptacle 

 small, conical, glabrous ; male sepals free, tips ciliate ; petals very minute ; stamens 

 6. Seeds oblong, pale, with papillose ridges. — Near U. acMton, but the receptacle 

 is quite glabrous. 



§§ Recepfacle villous. 



35. E. luzulaefolium, Mart, in Wall. PI. As. Itcvr. iii. 28; Gat. 

 6071 ; leaves short broadly subulate many-nerved, scapes many flexuous, 

 head small hemispheric pubescent base truncate and intruded, invol. bracts 

 spreading or erect (never refiexed) outer broadly cuneiform shining, floral 

 cuneately oblanceolate obtuse, fern. fl. pedicelled, sepals slender concave 

 tipped with bristles, petals 3 linear-lanceolate ciliate, ovary with petals 

 stipitate. KwntJi JEnum. iii. 553 ; Schnizl. Icon. t. 46, f. 2, 5 ; Stem. Syn. 

 PI. Oyp. 270 ; Kcern. in Litmsoa xxvii. 636. 



Throughout IimiA ; from Bengal to Burma and the Concan, ascending the 

 Khasia Hills to 6000 ft., common. Cbyion, Gardner. 



Uootstoek elongate and as stout as a swan's quill, or slender, densely fibrous. 

 Leaves 1-3 by Jj-J in., narrowed from the base to the tip, opaque, rarely trans- 

 lucent. Scapes 3-12 in., slender; sheath obtuse. Seads i in. diam., pale; invol. 

 bracts coriaceously scarious; floral dark, shortly hairy, receptacle conical or 

 columnar; male sepals 2-3, tips ciliate; petals minute, obscure.; pedicel of fem. 

 fl. slender. Seeds oblong, yellow. — Difficult to distinguish at sight from E. trilohum 

 and guingytangulare, 



86. X!. quinquang'ulare, lAnn. Sp. PI. 87 ; leaves linear ensiform 

 or subulate acute or acuminate, scapes many, heads globose grey or snow- 

 white, invol. bracts very short scarious linear-oblong to broadly cuneate 

 at length refiexed under the head, floral oblanceolate or spathulate hyaline 

 acuminate or finely cuspidate, male petals minute, fem. fl. pedicelled, 

 sepals slender, petals narrowly oblanceolate sparsely ciliate, ovary with 

 petals stipitate or substipitate. Mart, in Wall. PI. As. Ba/r. iii. 28 ; Gat. 6072 ; 

 Kunth Enum. iii. 566 ; Stevd. Syn. PI. Gyp. 270, Balz. Sf Oibs. Bomb. FL 

 280 ; Thu>. Enum. 341. (eiceZ. vwr.) ; Kcern. in lAnnoea, xxvii. 646. E. argen- 

 teum, Mart. I.e. E. Martianum, Wall. Cat. 7279 (proliferous state). 

 E. argyrsBum, Stevd. I. c. 271. E. erythropodum, Miq. in Hohen. Herb. 

 Ganara, n. 131. Sphssrochloa quadrangularis, BeoMV. ex JDesv. in. Ann. 8c. 

 Nat. So. xiii. 47. Leucocephala graminifolia, Soxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 612. 



Throughout India ; from the Upper Gangetic plain to 'Bttema, and southward to 

 Ceylon (C.P. 792). 



Leaves 1-4 by i-J in. ; usually narrowed from the base to the acuminate tip, 

 few or many-nerved, opaque or subtranslucent, often bright red when dry. /Scapes 

 1-4' rather stout and flexuous ; sheath short, tip membranous. Heads ^—^ in. diam., 

 grey when the fl. bracts are sparsely shortly villous, snow-white when they are many 

 and densely villous ; invol. bracts very variable in breadth, pale, glistening ; recep- 

 tacle globose or columnar ; male sepals 3 or 2 or all connate, tips long-ciliate ; petals 

 very small ; stamens 6. Ovary^ usually with the petals stipitate. Seeds oblong, 

 smooth. — It is difficult to distinguish forms of this from luzulafoUvm and 



