196 THE JOURNAL OF INDIAN BOTANY
Heads 1/4-1/3 in. diam., globose or ovoid
(plains from Bengal to Ceylon) ... 15 E. quinquangulare.
Heads 1/8-1/4 in. diam. ; bracts much longer.
(Burma) ... 17 E. roseum.
1 | Ls. not drying red.
I Involucral bracts, obtuse, horizontal. Scapes 4-15 in. Female, petals oblanceolate
(Khasia and N. Burma). ... 13 E. luzulaefolium.
Female petals linear, with long basal hairs,
so brush-like ... 14 E. Thwaitesii.
No female petals, heads obconic ... 15 E. achiton.
+ 1 Involucral bracts reflexed, shorter
than head; Heads 1/6 in. (Bengal) ... 19 E. trilobum. Heads 1/4-1/3 in. Involucral bracts reflexed, shorter than head ;
heads 1/4-1/3 in. (S. Indian Hills) ... 20 E. Collintfm.
- * Female sepals 3, one flat or linear ;
heads grey (Ceylon) , ... 20 E. Collinum.
Heads gray or white ; involucral bracts short or long, horizontal or reflexed. ("Western Ghats). ... 21 E. Dianae.
- * * Female sepals 2.
Scapes 4-8 in. Involucral bracts not longer than floral ; heads densely white villous. (N. Kanara) ... 22 E. Sedgwickii.
Sub-section (a).
3. E. Geof freyi Fyson, Kew Bulletin Nov. 1914, p. 330 ; Fir. Nil. and Pul. Hill tops p. 432. Stem 0. Leaves 1/2-2 in., flat tapering to the acute apex. Scapes solitary, in the type, or several, three or four times as long as the leaves. Heads gray ; involucre black. Receptacle glabrous. Flowers regular, 3-merous. Petals unusually broad, the female spathulate with large glands. Fig. opp.
Peninsular India ; on the Pulneys at 7000 ft.
The type plant was collected at 7500 feet on the Pulneys and is remarkable for the solitary scape rising from a rosette of stiff short leaves. It occurs all over the downs, not in particularly damp spots, and flowers in. the autumn. What appears to be a dimerous variety of this species is on a sheet in Herb. Calc, dated July 5th, 1865 collected at " North Hastings."
4. E. Collettii Hook. f. (Chandler, Shan Hills, in Herb. Calc. marked " identified at Kew "); F.B.I, vi 575, No. 15; Ruhl. p. 114 " incognita."
