501 



aud twisted towards the apex, more or less distinctly spopn-shaped 

 at the top, dilated, sometimes two twiaed together: scape erect, 

 clothed with two sheaths from the hase to the middle, cohering 

 with a tubular base, free at the top, twisted, furrowed : capitule 

 solitary, spherical, concave at the base : involucral bracts oblong- 

 ovate, here ani there denticulate at the margin : male flowers 

 hexandrous, anthers brown, ovary exactly tricoccous. 



Neilgherries. 



(19) E. lAirCEOLATTTM. fMiq.J 



Ident. Miq. in Steudel 1. c. 



Spec. Chap. Stemless, csespitose: leaves broad-lanceolate, very 

 thinly striated, 2 — 3-times shorter than the scapes : sheaths almost 

 equalling the leaves, leafy, acuminate : papitules depressed-globose, 

 white, hairy : involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, hairy at the back 

 and cUiated, floral ones oblong ciliated : aohenium ovate, very 

 obtusely angled. 



Mangalore. 



(20) E. BKACTBOSTJM. fSteudel.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. o, p. 272. 



Spec. Chak. Stemless : radical leaves csespitose, packed together, 

 oblong-lanceolate, striated, not peUucid, twice shorter than the 

 sheath clothing the base of the stem : scape solitary, erect, furrowed, 

 somewhat twisted : capitule terminal, solitary, spherical, involucral 

 bracts scariose, oblong, much shorter than the capitule, floral ones 

 Eneax, hairy, obscurely green : flowers tetrandrous covered like the 

 bracts with longish hairs. 



Neilgh^rries. 



ORDER GLXXXIII. CTPERACEJG. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or diclinous, naked or furnished 

 with a calyx, each surrounded by a scale, congested into a 

 many, few, or 1 -flowered spike, lower ones often reduced to an 

 empty scale : calyx, when present, rudimentary, sepals 6 or 

 more, bristle-shaped, thorny, scabrous, or plumose, sometimes 

 very thin, capillary, sometimes out of six all or three alter- 

 nately scale-shaped : stamens three, opposite the sepals, seldom 



