1973 Moldenke, New and noteworthy plants 179 are erect or slightly divergent, not reflexed to the ground, and are of the narrow shape and rather thin texture of the typical form of the species. The type of the form was collected by Julian A. and Cora Steyermark, John and Marie Wurdack, and Hans Wiehler ( no. 106632) on dry ground on a rocky sandstone plateau on top of Kami-merti, "Carretera El Dorado hacia Santa Elena de Uairen, km. I98 al sur de El Dorado", at an altitude of 1200 to 11*00 meters, Bolivar, Venezuela, between December 7 and 10, 1972, and is deposited in my personal herbarium at Plainfield, New Jersey. SYNGONANTHUS XERANTHEMOIDES var. TRICOSTATUS (Gleason) Moldenke, stat. nov. Syngonanthus tricostatus Gleason, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club $61 16. 1929. ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE ERIOCAUIACEAE. XLV Harold N. Moldenke ERIOCAUIACEAE Lindl. Additional & emended bibliography: S. Ell., Sketch Bot., pr. 1 & 2, 2: 56U--567 & 728 (1821|) and pr. 3, 2: $6h— 567 & 728. 1971; Thanikaimoni, Inst. Franc. Pond. Trav. Sect. Scient. & Techn. 12: 91, 130, 13k, 152. 173, & 29U. 1972; E. G. Voss, Mich. Fl. 1: k9, 53, 37U, 1+78, & 183, fig. 7 & pl. k D. 1972} Altman & Dit-tmer, Biol. Data Book 1: 527. 1972} Encke & Buchheim in Zander, Hand-wbrterb. Pflanzennam., ed. 10, 56. 1972} Moldenke, Phytologia 26: 15— U7 & 136— LU7. 1973} F. C. Seymour, Phytologia 26: 90. 1973} D. R. & B. K. Windier, Phytologia 26: 107. 1973. Encke & Buchheim (1972) classify this family in their Suborder Eriocauloneae in Order Commelinales . ERIOCAULON Gron. Additional & emended bibliography: S. Ell., Sketch Bot., pr. 1 & 2, 2: 56U— 567 & 728. 182U} Zinderenbakker, S. Afr. Pollen 1: 32, 36, & 79, pl. 7, fig. 33 & UU. 1953} S. Ell., Sketch Bot., pr. 3, 2: 56U— 567 & 728. 1971} Thanikaimoni, Inst. Franc. Pond. Trav. Sect. Scient. & Techn. 12: 91. 1972} E. G. Voss, Mich. Fl. 1: 53, 37U, & U78, map 561, fig. 7 & pl. k D. 1972} Moldenke, Phytologia 26: 16—1*2, U7, 139, & Ui3~ 1U5. 1973} F. C. Seymour, Phytologia 26: 90. 1973. The Craighead s.n. [28 April 1967], distributed as Eriocaulon sp., is actually Syngonanthus flavidulus (Michx.) Ruhl. ERIOCAULON ARGENTINUM Castell. Additional bibliography: Moldenke, Phytologia 26: 17 & 27. 1973.
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