Eriocaulon| XXVI, ERIOCAULACEA, 99 
6. E. lacteum Rendle sp. nov. 
A handsome plant sometimes 11 ft, high ; stem suppressed ; 
leaves short, glabrous, densely rosulate, ensiform, blunt, the lower 
part inconspicuously fenestrate ; scapes several to a plant, tall, 
erect, wiry, twisted, subterete with 5 to 8 longitudinal ridges; 
sheath about twice as long as the leaves, longitudinally striate 
and twisted, broadening and with split edges for + of its length 
or less below the scarious shortly bifid easily broken apex; 
flower-heads white, densely hairy, depressed globose, the smaller 
male, the larger consisting of numerous male flowers surrounding 
a few females; receptacle convex, villous; involucral bracts 
straw-coloured, more or less fuscous above the middle, broadly 
oblanceolate and blunt,! or lanceolate and, especially the inner, 
subacute to acute; outer floral bracts straw-coloured with often 
a fuscous apex, broadly oblanceolate, subacute to acuminate, 
slightly hairy, the inner spathulate, shortly acuminate, apex 
thickened, shortly and densely hairy; flowers trimerous, female 
sessile, sepals cuneate, flat or slightly concave, apex rounded 
bearing short white hairs; petals close above the sepals, narrowly 
cuneate, hairy above the middle ending in an apical tuft of white 
hairs, with a black bottle-shaped gland below the apex, the odd 
petal larger ; ovary trigastrous, styles 3, filiform, almost as long 
as the odd petal; male flowers sessile, sepals unequal, concave 
inwards, cuneate with rounded thickened apex, bearing a short 
white tomentum on the back in the upper third; lateral petals 
shortly linear-cuneate with a white tomentum on the upper face 
and apex, the odd one larger, narrowly cuneate with upper face 
densely tomentose, each bearing a central black ovate-conical 
gland ; stamens 6, anthers black; pistil represented by 3 black 
central glands. 
Plants 7 to 18 in. high; leaves 1 to 13 in. long by 12 to 
2 lines broad above the broad sheathing base; scapes 9 to 18 
in. long; sheath 14 to 2} in. Flower-heads 3 to 42 lines in 
diameter ; involucral bracts 1 to 14 by a little over 4 line, floral 
bracts 13 to 1 by } to % line; sepals of female to 1 by } to 
nearly 2 line; internode between calyx and corolla + line; larger 
petal 12 by 3 line, others 4 by + line; sepals of male 4 to 1 by } to 
scarcely 3 line; pedestal between calyx and corolla ? line long, the 
larger petal a good line long and half as broad, others ? by + line. 
Near £. Sonderianum Korn., but distinguished by its blunt 
leaves, the absence of keel or wing on the sepals, etc. 
Huiitia.— Widely cespitose, with tall sheaths and milk-white 
heads. Plentiful in damp meadows, growing among Droseracere and 
species of Utricularia, and very plentiful in swampy places round 
Lopollo; Feb. to May 1860. Collected by Welwitsch in swampy 
meadows not farther than 300 paces from his house in April 1860. No. 
2452. Growing somewhat sparsely in the very lofty spongy pastures 
of Morro de Lopollo along with Swertia stellarioides and small 
Leguminose ; end of April 1860. No. 2452). On the higher spongy 
slopes of Serra de Oiahoia in the Humpata district ; towards the end 
of April 1860. No. 2453. 
