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THE JOURNAL OF INDIAN BOTANY. ad apicem sensim angustiora. Pedunculi 15-24 cm., a glabri ; vaginae 5 cm., ore acutae. Oapitula 6 mm. lata, globosa, nigronivea. Recepfea- culum glabrum, Flores ferimeres. Flos : — petala externe visiblia, magnis nigris glandulis instrucfca. Flos S ; sepala ad spatham anfcice Assam connata. Petala gequalia. Anthrae albae. Plate 43.

Peninsular India; Pancbgani, N. Kanara. Horsley-Knnda In Cuddappa District.

Scapes and leaves rather flaccid. Leaves very short compared with the scapes, otherwise the plants with the habit in general of E. collinum Hook f. Heads rather small floral bracts black, but covered with white hairs. Receptacle glabrous. Flowers 3-merous, normal but anthers white.

Var. megalocephala, Oapitula valde majora, 8-12 mm. lata. ; pedunculi breviores, 8-12 cm. Plate 44.

Central Provinces, Mandla District, Peninsular India, Mysore, Nilgiris 5.000 ft.

Peduncles much shorter and heads larger, possibly a distinct species. In habit like E. Geoffreyi, of which it might almost be thought to be a white anthered variety.

See App. I. E. Ritchieanum and E. melaleucum.

47. E. breviscapon Koern. ; F. B. I. vi 575, No. 16 ; Ruhl.

No. 7B. Stem short. Leaveswith broad sheathing base, then suddenly narrowed to a long linear blade, about 1/6 in. by 8-10 in. Scapes a little longer. Heads 1/3-1/2 in. Involucre black, or the outer bracts pale, reflexed. Plate 45. /

Peninsular India ; N. Kanara, in streams, etc. at 2,000 ft.

48. E. rivulare Dalziel ; F.BJ. vi 580, No. 30 (E. Dalzeli) ; Ruhl No. 138. Stem a few inches or 0, thickly covered with the very numerous leaves. Leaves linear, barely 1/12 in. wide not much enlarged at the base, 4 to 9 in. long. Scapes numerous, to 13 in. in length. Involucral bracts pale, at length slightly reflexed. One male petal longer than the others. Plate 46.

Peninsular India ; on the Ghats, at Castle Rock, etc. in streams.

A close connection of the last species of which it may be regarded as the more pronounced aquatic form.

Koerniche l.c. p. 605, rejected Dalziel's name rimdare because of a plant of W est Africa so named previously by Don. But Ruhland identifying Don’s plant with a still earlier E. lati folium Sm. restored Dalziel’s name.

49. E. miserum Koern. (Wall. Cat. 6070 in Herb. Calc.!); r.B.I. vi 575, No. 19 ; Ruhl. No. 72. Stem 1/6 in. thick, up to lj in. long branched at the base and so tufted, clothed below by the nume- rous filiform dead leaves. Leaves sheathing at the base, but soon