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THE INDIAN SPECIES OF ERIOCAULON.
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flowers of the head is much large and projects beyond the bracts giving the head a fringed appearance, like that of E. longicaspis, but much less pronounced. This feature disappears in dried specimens, but the plant is different in appearing much later on in the year, on bank above the free surface of

ERIOCAULON COLLINUM
ERIOCAULON COLLINUM
DR. Fyson
ERIOCAULON COLLINUM
Hook.

water, not in swamps. In the Flora of the Nilgiris and Pulney Hill tops I separated two forms as new species, but a comparison of a very large number induces me to reduce these again to E. collinum Hook. f. with the assumption that the female sepals may vary as between the Ceylon and the S. Indian forms.

(To be Continued.)

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