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200 THE JOUENAL OF INDIAN BOTANY. 11. E. Duthiei Hook. f. (Duthie No. 8436 in Herb. Dehra Dun !) F. B. I. vi 579, No. 22 ; Ruhl. No. 174. Stem O. Leaves 3/4 in. long, broadly oblanceolate acute from a 1/6 in. wide base. Scapes numerous 1 to 6 in. slender. Heads 1/6 in. Involucral bracts pale, not projecting beyond the floral. Floral bracts oblong cuspidate, nearly glabrous. Receptacle tall, glabrous or with a few hairs. Se- pals 2 only, in both sexes. Female petals narrow, neirly glabrous. Seeds oval, yellowish brown with darker markings. Male flowers. — Sepals 2 ; otherwise normal, anthers black. Plate 7.

Central Provinces, one collection only seen.

The scapes are taller, the heads smaller and the involucres less horizontal than in E. trimcatum.

12. E. xeranthemum Mart. (Wall Cat. 6081 in Herb. Calc !) F.B.I, vi 584, No. 43 ; Ruhl. No. 150 Leaves 2/3-1/2 in. Scapes slightly longer or shorter. Disc of head 1/10-1/8 in. Involucral bracts much longer, glistening white. Receptacle globose, floral bracts broadly obovate truncate, hairy at the tip. Female sepals narrow 3 equal or unequal or 2 only. Fig. opp.

Central Himalayas, Nepal; Assam, Khasia, Peninsular India, Malabar, Cochin, etc.

Hooker in F.B.I, describes the receptacle as hairy, but wrongly. Martius in Wall. Pi. As. Rar. Vol. iii says the hairiness is the only real reason for distinguishing E. xeranlhemoid.es from this species. Hooker also gives the sepals as 2. Koerniche in Linnaea xxvii p. 626 gives them as 3, but unequal. I find both the petals and sepals of the female flowers vary in size among them- selves and one sepal may be linear or absent.

13. E. luzulaefolium Mart. (Wall. Cat. 6071 in Herb. Calc !) ; F.B.I, vi 582, No. 35 in part; Ruhl. No. 131 in part. Leaves 2-4 in. narrowed from the 1/6 in. base, flat, many-nerved. Sheaths about as long. Scapes many, 2 to 4 times as high, slender. Heads 1/4 in., truncate, clasped below by the light ? brown obtuse saucer shaped involucre. Floral bracts dark with white hairs, making the heads gray. Receptacle hairy. Sepals and petals three, narrow. Plate 8.

Central Himalayas, Nepal, Assam ; Silhet (type sheet !) ; Lr Bengal ; and the Shan States.

Hooker in F.B I. has a much wider distribution extending over all India, Ruhland merely repeats this- But the sheets seen by me with that name from Madras, Kanara and other parts are not the species of the above quoted type. The Ceylon plant C. P. 796, so named, has none of the characteristic truncate appearance of the head on a saucer-shaped involucre and is E. collinum. Wallich's plant quoted above does not in fact resemble E. zuinriuangulare as stated by Hooker.