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affords another example of the extended distribution of the species of this 
genus. 
6. J. indicus, triandrus; capitulis multifloris squarrosis trichotomé cymosis, 
sepalis lineari-lanceolatis apice mucronatis recurvis capsule muticæ lon- 
gitudine, stigmatibus subsessilibus, caule foliisque compressis nodosis, 
Juncus indicus. Royle MSS. 
B. nanus, caule 2—3-pollicari, capitulis paucis (1—4). 
Habitat a. in Nepalià ad Katmandu (Wallich); g. in Emodi montibus ad 
Mussooree. Royle. y. (v. s. sp. in Herbb. Wallich. et Royle.) 
Radix fibrosa, perennis? Caules erecti, nodosi, compressi, solidi, spithamæi 
v. pedales et ultrà, nunc basi reclinati. Folia subulata, mucronata, com- 
pressa, viridia, intüs septulis interrupta, hinc tactu nodoso-articulata, 
2—5-uncialia, basi dilatatà vaginanti, margine scarioso-membranaceá. 
Flores sessiles, capitati, virides. Capitula squarrosa, multiflora, tricho- 
tomé ramosissimèque cymosa.  Bractec lanceolate, mucronate, floribus 
breviores, margine scariosæ, hinc carinatæ, ind? concave. Sepala lineari- 
lanceolata, rigida, apice mucronata, subrecurvata, margine scarioso albo ; 
exteriora 3 subcarinata; inferiora 3 planiuscula, vix breviora. Stamina 3, 
sepalis exterioribus opposita, iisdemque ter breviora: filamenta alba, 
basi dilatata, superné tenuissimè attenuata: antheræ lineares, obtusæ, 
luteze, filamentis breviores: loculis parallelis, omnind connatis. Pistillum 
stamina superans: ovarium conico-oblongum, triquetrum : stylus vix ul- 
lus: stigmata 3, filiformia, revoluta, longitudinalitèr papillosa. Capsula 
oblonga, angusta, perianthium vix excedens, triquetra, 3-locularis, 3-val- 
vis, polysperma, fusca, nitida. Semina minuta, ovoidea, gilva, hilo mu- 
croniformi et chalazâ brunneis aucta. 
This species belongs to the same group as aculiflorus, lampocarpus, obtusi- 
florus, and others, in which the leaves are cylindrical, divided internally by 
septa, the inflorescence terminal, and the flowers frequently triandrous. The 
present plant evidently comes near to the polycephalus of Michaux, a native 
of North America, but it appears to be sufficiently distinguished by its rigid 
mucronate recurved sepals, and almost sessile stigmata, 
