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THE INDIAN SPECIES OF ERIOCAULON. 149 II. Simplices.— Involucre glabrous. All floral parts in 3's. and

equal or one female sepal smaller or absent. (a) Receptacle ... glabrous. {!>) Receptacel ... hairy.

III. HIRSUTE— As II b, but involucral bracts hairy, or also the

scapes and leaves.

IV. Anisopetalje. — As II b, but one male petal much enlarged and

projecting so or to hide the floral bracts. I ! Floral bracts scabrid or puberous, pale : receptacle villous. V. SCARIOSAE. — Female sepals 3 or 2 narrow. Male flowers normal. VI. Cristatosepalae. — Female sepals strongly boat-shaped and crested on the keel or at least enlarged. Floral bracts pube- rous in some. Male flowers normal.

t I Female sepals connate.

VII. Connatosepalae. — Female petals clawed. Male flowers nor-

mal. One species only on Himalayas, remainder in China, etc. B. Anthers white.

VIII. Leucantherae. — Involucre black or pale. Floral bracts

usually dark 'with white hairs, but also light and glabrous.

I Plants entirely submerged, leaves linear or ribbon-like ... ... ... b«

Plants of wet ground, leaves more or less lanceolate ... •-- ... d.

(Stem leafy for several inches; heads 1/6 in. b.j or less ... ... ... ••• Setace^e.

vStem 0, or if longer and branched, under 3 in. c.

Anthers black, Ls. 1—2 in. (Khasia) E. gregatum or E. barba-

caprae. Anthers white or yellow stem ; ls. 2 in. or

more ... ... ... ••• LEUCANTHER.E.

c.i

, (Anthers white or yellow ... ... D°-

' ^Anthers black or greenish .t, ••• e »

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