98 XXVI, ERIOCAULACEZ. [Zriocaulon 
scantily grassed places with species of Lythracee between Lombe and 
Candumba, In fl. and immature fr. end of March 1857. No. 2441. 
Var. pygmeum Rendle. 
A dwarf congested form with almost glabrous receptacle. 
Hu1LLta.—Flower-heads subfuscous within, whitish outside, Widely 
czespitose in damp sandy fields which in the previous year had been 
planted with Sorghum and Penicillaria. Near Lopollo; April and 
May 1860. No. 2444. 
4. E. ciliisepalum Rendle sp. nov. 
Small; glabrous; stem suppressed; leaves shorter than the 
scapes, linear-tapering, acute, flaccid; scapes several to each 
plant, filiform, erect or spreading, compressed triangular in cross 
section, sheath rather short, thinly membranous, united below the 
oblique mouth, blunt; flower-heads hemispherical when young 
becoming globose with a truncate base, dise black, involucre 
whitish, moncecious, flowers trimerous, the outer female, the 
inner male, receptacle oblong, hairy ; involucral bracts elliptic to 
elliptic-ovate, blunt or subacute, glabrous; floral bracts ovate or 
elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes narrowly rhomboid, 
apex acute, glabrous ; female flowers sessile, sepals very concave, 
lanceolate, acute, with sparsely ciliate margins; internode 
between sepals and petals very short, petals narrowly linear, 
acute; ovary trigastrous, style dividing a little above the base 
into three arms which overtop the petals; male flowers shortly 
stalked, sepals united into a glabrous funnel-shaped tube open on 
one side, with irregularly dentate, sometimes bifid or trifid apex ; 
petals rudimentary, triangular-ovate with a small blackish gland 
below the apex; stamens 6, anthers blackish ; pistil represented 
by three minute blackish glands, 
Plants cespitose, 4 to 1} in. high, leaves not exceeding 8 lines 
long by + line broad above the base; scapes generally between 4 
and | in., sheath 4 in. or less. Flower-heads 2 to 14 lines across ; 
involucral bracts $ by 3 line; floral bracts 3 to } by 2 to + line; 
sepals of female flower 2 line by } line across the back, petals 4 
line long. Pedicel of male flower 3, line, pedestal between calyx 
and petals scarcely } line. 
Near £. abyssinicwm Hochst. but distinguished by its hairy 
receptacle and the ciliate sepals of the female flower. 
Huitia.—In damp fields formerly planted with Zea Jays; very 
plentiful but only met with in very few places ; near Lopollo at 5000 
feet elevation ; May 1860. No. 2445. On mucous-boggy slopes at 
Morro de Lopollo, below the old fortress ; end of May 1860. No. 24450. 
5. E. sp. 
Perhaps a new species near E. abyssinicum, distinguished by 
its much broader triangular-subulate, fenestrate leaves. Flower- 
heads with whitish involucre and blackish dises ; flowers trimerous 
but too young for more certain determination. 
Huitia.—In lofty short-grassed pastures flooded in the rainy 
season at Morro de Lopollo, growing with small Xyridee and 
Cyperacece but not plentiful. March and April 1860, No. 2451. 
