Eriocaulon| XXVI. ERIOCAULACES, 97 
into 2 filiform arms longer than the sepals ; male flower subtended 
by broadly elliptical concave glabrous bracts with truncate erose 
apex, stalked; sepals small, triangular-subulate, free; petals minute, 
alternating with the sepals; stamens 4, anthers black; 2 minute 
black carpel-rudiments are found in the centre; seeds elliptical 
with a flat side, pale red-brown with a yellowish reticulation. 
Plants + to } in. high with a close, button- or rosette-like 
habit ; leaves densely rosulate, 3 to 8 lines long, not exceeding 4 
linein breadth above the base; scape 5 lines long or less, sheathed 
for three-fourths its length, sheath sometimes becoming ultimately 
trifid. Flower-heads I line or less in diameter ; involucral bracts 
1 line long, or slightly less, by 4 line broad; floral bracts of 
female flowers 4 to 3 line by } to 3 line; sepals 2 to 2 line by 4 
line in side view ; petals close above the sepals, the larger a little 
over 1 line by ;; line, the smaller 4 to 2 line long; male bracts 
$ by 3 line, pedicel } line, sepals 3 line or slightly less. 
A distinct little species characterised by its dense congested 
habit and the long protruding petal of the female flower. 
Hourira.—A dwarf plant with the facies of Juncus pygmeus, con- 
gested rosulate radical leaves, crowded scapes shorter than or equal to 
the leaves, and small whity-greenish flower-heads, growing almost 
immersed in sticky mucus derived from Algz, on the boggy heights 
of Morro de Lopollo ; middle of May 1860. No. 2446. 
3. E. Welwitschii Rendle sp. nov. 
Dichrolepispusilla Welw. Apont. p. 542 (1859). 
Glabrous ; stem suppressed ; leaves less than half the length 
of the scape, linear-tapering, acute ; scapes numerous, filiform, 
flexuose, subelliptical in section ; sheath slightly hairy at the 
base, united for 4 its length, apex bifid ; flower-heads ultimately 
subglobose or with a slightly flattened base, subfuscous, mone- 
cious, peripheral florets female; receptacle oblong to oblong- 
conical, pilose; flowers trimerous; involucra] bracts whitish- 
stramineous, lanceolate, acute to acuminate ; floral bracts similar 
becoming slightly smaller ; female flowers sessile, sepals whitish, 
transparent, broadly linear to linear-oblong and _ lanceolate, 
narrowing above to an aristate apex, concave ; petals close above 
the sepals, filiform ; style passing into 3 subulate arms far exceed- 
ing the perianth; male subsessile, sepals whitish, transparent, 
linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, free or more or less connate 
below ; petals rudimentary, stamens 6, anthers black. 
Plants 3 to 4 in. high, leaves 4 to 14 in. long, reaching about 
2 line in breadth above the base, scapes 1} to nearly 4 in., sheaths 
4 to 8 lines long. Flower-heads 1 to 14 lines across; involucral 
bracts 3 by 3 line ; sepals of female flower 3 by § to ¢ line ; petals 
38; line; sepals of male flower 3%, by 75 to yy line, pedestal 
between sepals and petals § line. 
Near £. abyssinicwm Hochst. but distinguished by its narrower 
and narrowly pointed bracts, markedly hairy receptacle, etc. 
Pungo ANDONGO.—Plentiful, but seen in one place only, in boggy 
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