Eriocaulon seemannii Moldenke

Eriocaulon seemannii Moldenke, sp. nov
Stems very short; leaves olivaceous, tufted, spreading or recurved, linear-lanceolate, 2.3-6 cm. long, 2.5-3 mm. wide at the middle, very thin-membranous or subpellucid, subulateacute or acuminate at apex (the tip itself bltmtish), fenestrately 5-7-nerved (the fenestrations very conspicuous on both surfaces), glabrate; peduncles aggregate, very numerous, 19 40, slender, olivaceous, 4-9.5 cm. long, 3-costate, glabrous; sheaths louse, 1.5 I cm long, rather obscurely striate and fenestrate, bilobed at apex, the blades short and sharply acute, scariousmargined; heads dark-gray, hemispheric or globose, 2. 5-4 mm. in diameter, slight lv compressed in drying; involucral bractlets light-brown, broadly elliptic, acute, glabrous; receptacle long pilose; receptacular bractlets light brown (or hyaline at base), spatulate, acute or acuminate, sparsely pubescent on the back; staminate florets: pedicellate; sepals 2, lighl brown toward
apex, hyaline below, oblong or subobovate, concave, blunt isli ; petal tube pale -.trai eons, its
lobes very minute; anthers -4, black, roundish; pistillate florets: short-pedicellate; sepals 2, brown, spatulate, navicular, subacute, broadly winged-carinate at the middle, not crested, sparsely pilose at apex; petals 2, pale-stramineous, unequal, obovate, blunt, not notched, glabrous; ovary long-stalked, 2-ovulate; style shorter than the ovary; stigmas 2, longer than the ovary.
Caule perbrevi; capitulis laxis glabratis non elongatis; bracteis involucri sordidis late elliptieis acutis; floribus dimeris; floris cf 1 sepalis oblongis vel subobovatis; tloris 9 sepalis spathulatis, petalis integris.
Type collected in meadows near Panama Citv, Canal Zone, Panama, />. C. Seemann 295 (herb. Kew).
Distribution: Known only from the type collection.