182 CXXXII. JUNCACER. [ Juncus. 
J. striatus, Schousb. from the Mediterranean regions is scarcely distinguishable 
m J. prismatocarpus except by the rather smaller flowers, and J. ozycarpus, E. Mey. 
from South Africa appears to be quite identic 
14. J. capillaceus, Hook. f. Fil, Tasm. ii. 65, t. 184.—Stems from à 
e or subulate, near ; terete, more or less 
poda divided inside y cross partitions of pith as in J. prismato- 
ca sometimes shorter than but often twice as long as the stem 
Flowers in little clusters of 3 to 10, rarely redu os flowers, 
and often not above 4 clusters to the small panicle, the lowest 
bract int Fe ree and leafy, the other bracts small. ianth- 
segments a line long, lanceolate with scarious margins, rather 
acute but whos the subulate points of J. primatotorget amens 
an ar and shortly beaked. Placentan wees prominent. Seeds 
withou sata. 
N. S. Wale ales. Timbarra, New England, C 
,N 
vi Rivulets of the Black aah cay Cobra Range, ascending to 5 0r 
6000 ft. F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. 
ei Arthur's Lake, Gunn; Cuming's Head, Archer; Coal River Tier, 
dfield. 
The species is also in New Zealand. 
Orper CXXXIII. PALMA, 
above the base and somewhat versatile, with 2 parallel cells opening 
— in longitudinal slits. te flowers | in the females when present 
ens 
base of the perianth. Ovary in ; ed 
divided into 3 SM carpels, or in some genera 1-celled from the fé 
in nera only 1 cell fertile. Style usually very short or com 
per dined into 3 short thick stigmas or lobes stigmatic inside, at 
t erect afterwards spreading, rarely columnar with 3 small terminal 
stigmas. Ovules solitary or rarely 2 in 
pou an 
aften thick succulent een or spongy and fibrous. sometimes thin and 
hard, the endocarp me ous erustaceous or hard es bony. d 
ary or sometimes 3. or 3; testa thin or erustaceous, adnate Ebo» 
or sometimes more or e to the endoca ; hilum rin: 
oblong o or shortly linear, basal and oblique or sok ral o 
