102 cLxi. JUNCACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Luzula. 
ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 12-14,500 ft., Royle, &c.— 
Distris. North Alpine and Arctic regions. . 
Perennial, 2-10 in. high. Leaves densely fascicled, radical 1-4 in. long, 
js-} in. broad, channelled, ciliate or not. Cyme 4-$ in. long; lower bract leafy, 
usually elongate, floral as long as the flowers, lanceolate, aristate ; bracts brown with 
broad white membranous ciliate margins and tip. Sepals j in. long, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, aristate, very dark brown. Stamens 6. Capsule oblong, obtuse, shorter 
than the sepals, 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
L. sp. ?; Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 10-11,000 ft., J. D. H., Pantling ; referred by 
Buchenau doubtfully to the European L. parviflora, var. subcongesta, but in much 
too young a state for identification. The bracts are ciliate, the sepals ovate acum!- 
nate and the stamens are 3 only.—There are other Himalayan species in too imperfect 
a state for determination. 
Orver CLXIII. PALMEZ. 
By Dr. O. Beccari & J. D. Hooker. 
Shrubs or trees, solitary or gregarious, naked or prickly, rarely pubes- 
cent. Stem erect scandent or decumbent, rarely branched above. Beie 
alternate, plaited in bud, pinnatisect or palmate, rarely simple or bipinnate; 
petiole sheathing. Flowers 1- or 2-sexual, small, in panicles or spikes e 
are enclosed in one or more large sheathing bracts (spathes), usua y 
3-bracteate. Perianth inferior, segments 6 in two series (sepals an . 
petals) usually all free, imbricate or valvate. Stamens 3 or 6, rarely more; 
anthers versatile. Ovary 1-3-celled or of 3 1-celled carpels; stigmas “ 
usually sessile; ovules 1-2 in each carpel, adnate to the wall, base, OT top 
of the cell, anatropous. Fruit a 1-3-celled drupe or hard berry or of bri- 
carpels; pericarp smooth, rough, or clothed with shining scales that Ke déi 
cate downwards. Seeds erect or laterally attached, rarely pendu uet 
raphe usually branching all over the testa ; albumen horny or bony, "t e 
(equable) or ruminate ; embryo small, in a small cavity near the "i " 
of the albumen.—Genera about 130, species about 1100, chiefly tropic 
I am deeply indebted to Dr. Beccari for the generous loan of the mss. of his mon 
valuable researches on the Palms of British India, which form the materials Onder 
elaborate treatise on all the Asiatic and Malayan genera and species of tar or 
of which fragments have appeared in his (now abandoned) admirable, $ ri 
" Malesia." The mss. include materials for framing more or less complete dese e. 
tions of most of the Indian Palms, with notes on others ; and are very volum 
many closely written foolscap pages being often devoted to a single species. ]wa js 
and the fact of the whole being in Italian, and in an orthography that js not a Ge 
legible, requires me to crave Dr. Beccari's and my readers' indulgence, if in the m 
of diagnoses and descriptions I have in any case misinterpreted his stateme 
or views. 
It was, indeed, a great disappoint . Beccari decline 
take the completion f his work. and tho drawing wp of. specific diagnoses in the fore 
adopted in the Flora of British India, a task which he is so good as to assure »t 
would have gratified him to have accomplished, had he not definitely given s as 
further study of botany. This has compelled me to associate my name vith than 
joint author, which I do with great reluctance, for he is not only more familiar a 
am with the genera through his long journeys in the Malayan Archipelago, by ined 
collected together and examined, for the purpose of his work, the materials re after 
in all the principal European and Indian Herbaria, It remains to ad d r. 
having examined all available specimens at Kew, I have throughout adopt usly 
; oat ees N vio 
Beccari’s systematic disposition of the species, and his names for those pre 
undescribed. 
d to under- 
