134 ERIOCAULACE-®. [Eriocaulon. 
irih. Madagascar, tropical Asia. Nativs ?iames : Rumput Suasa; 
Rumput Kumpai Biinang. 
In plants in very wet spots the heads are often bulbiliferous. 
(2) E. silicicolum Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. vi. 191. 
Stem very short, covered with leaf bases. Leaves linear flaccid, 
herbaceous, acute, 5 to 8 in. long, -12 to -13 in. wide, with a few 
white hairs. Scapes i to 3, slender, glabrous, 12 to 18 in. tall, 
basal sheath 4 in. long, limb lanceolate elongate. Head >25 to 
nearly *5 in. wide. Involucral bracts oblong, tip rounded pubescent. 
Bracteoles cuneate, rounded, tip covered thickly with white hairs. 
Male flowers stalked. Sepals oblong cuneate, tipped with white 
hairs and black dotted, connate for most of their length. Corolla 
hardly longer, lobes 3, very unequal, crested with white hairs. 
Anthers black. Female flower; sepals as in male. Petals linear, 
free to base, with long white hairs. Capsule trilobed globose. 
Seed oblong obtuse. Hah. High mountains, local. Pahang, 
Gunong Tahan at 5500 ft. altitude in damp, open spots (Ridley). 
