408 CXXXVI. JUNCEA. 
Flowers cymose or panicled, small, 2-bracteolate at base.—Several Cape 
species. 
2. PRIONUM, PF. Mey. 
Perianth subregular, 6-parted; segments free, 1-nerved, 
concave ; 2 lateral of the outer 3, keeled. Stamens 6. Ovary 
many-ovuled ; style 0; stigmas 3, long, narrow, papillose 
within. Capsule 3-celled, many-seeded.—Kunth, l.c. p. 314. 
P. palmita, K. Mey. (Juncus serratus, Thunb.), the well-known Palmiet, 
is the type of this genus. It has thick, trunk-like stems or caudices, 4-6 
feet high, surmounted by a dense crown of large, broad, serrate, channelled 
leaves, from the centre of which rises a much-branched panicle of flowers. 
Common in watercourses and marshy ground. 
3. LUZULA, DC. 
Perianth regular, 6-parted ; segments connate at the very 
base, mostly 1-nerved (rarely 3-nerved), widely spreading; outer 
subearinate, inner smaller. Stamens 6. Ovary 1-celled ; 
ovules 3, erect; style 1, sometimes very short; stigmas 3, 
filiform, villous. Capsule 1-celled, 3-seeded.—Kunth, J.c. p. 
296. 
Tufted perennials, sometimes creeping. Leaves grass-like, mostly flat 
and thin, often hairy, sheathing at base. Flowers umbelled, cymose or 
panicled, more or less branched. Flowers as in Juncus.—L. campestris, a 
nearly cosmopolitan species, occurs among Drége’s plants (n. 3968). 
(GENUS ALLIED TO JUNGE®.) 
4? FLAGELLARIA, Linn. 
Perianth 6-parted, coloured, persistent ; the inner segments 
larger. Stamens 6, hypogynous. Ovary 3-celled, sessile ; 
ovules 1 in each cell, basilar, sessile, anatropous; stigmas 3, 
sessile, filiform, spreading. Drupe pea-like, crowned by the 
stigmas, l-seeded, with a fleshy epicarp and bony endocarp. 
Embryo minute, in floury albumen.—Awnth, l.c. p. 370. 
F. Indica, Common in the tropics of the Eastern hemisphere, occurs at 
Natal, “where it is used to fix thatch,” Gerrard. It is perennial, with a 
scrambling stem, the branches furnished at base with imbricating scales. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolate, nerved, ending in a spiral tendril, sheathing at 
base. Flowers in terminal panicles, small, often unisexual. 
Orper CXXXVII. COMMELYNES. 
Perianth 6-parted, segments in 2 rows ; outer calyx herba- 
ceous, Inner petaloid. Stamens 6 or fewer, hypogynous or 
on the base of the segments; anthers of some filaments 
