ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE ERIOCAULACBAB . HV Harold N. Moldenke ERIOCAULON AUTUM H. Lecomte This taxon is now reduced to synonymy under E. g oiling erlanum Kom., which see* ERIOCAULON ALPINUM Van Royen Additional bibliography: Moldenke. Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 27: 130. 1957; Van Royen, Nov. Quin., new ser., 10: 21., [27], 39 — UO, & UU, fig. la. 1959} Moldenke, Phytologla 17: U53 (1968) and 19: 1U. 1969. Illustrations: Van Royen, Nov. Guin., new ser., 10: [27], fig. 1*. 1959. Van Royen (1959) cites Brass 9226 from Lake Habbema, New Guinea, in the Rijksherbarium at Leiden, as the type of this en-demic species • He also cites Brass & Meyer Drees 9956 from the same island and says that the species inhabits "marshy slopes at high altitudes". He further remarks that "Originally the speci-mens mentioned above have been identified by H. Moldenke as E. brevipedunculatum Merrill, but this is certainly an error since in that species the receptaculum bears long white hairs and the sepals of either type of flower are greenish or yellowish, while in E* alpinum the receptaculum is glabrous and the sepals are blackish. Moreover the sepals of the female flowers are free in E. brevipedunculatum and in the present species they are tubuli-formly united with the two lateral sepals free from each other. The petals in the male flowers are acute and almost equal, while in B. brevipedunoulatum they are obtuse and distinctly unequal. Also, the petals of the female flowers are glabrous at the in-side while those of the Philippine species have long white hairs there. Finally the leaves have more than 10 nerves, those of E. brevipedunculatum 6 to 9 and the involucral bracts are glabrous in the present speoies while in the other they have white hairs at the apex. The present species shows a clear resemblance to B. montanum Van Royen but differs from that species by the many nerves of the leaves and by the black sepals of either type of flowers and the united sepals of the female flowers." Citations: MELANESIA: NEW OUINEA: Dutch New Ouinea: Brass 9226 (N — isotype); Brass & Meyer-Drees 9956 (N); Hoogland & Schodde 7031 (W— 2393235)1 Northeastern New Ouinea: M. S_.~Clem-ens 5581j"7nT. 7U09 (B, N), 9368 (N), 99U2 (B, N). ERIOCAULON AMBOENSE Schlnz Additional bibliography: Moldenke, Phytologla 19: 15 & 1*6. 1969. According to a letter from Dr. A. Schreiber, dated July 31, 65
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