cxxxvii. JUNCACE.i;, 799 



June, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. v. 12 (1890) p. 256 ; Boiss. Fl, Orient, v. 5, 

 p. 354 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1809) p. 525.— Plowers ' 

 Oct. 



Sind: Wondrow; sandy sliores of Sind, Stocks, Dalzell, 1 !— Distrib. Afghanistan 

 and westward to the Atlantic, N. and S. America, Austrah'a. 



2. Juncus punctorius, Umi.f. Suppl. (1781) p. 208. Tall, stont, 

 perennial, pale-green, 2 £t. high ; stems soft, often as thick as a goose- 

 quill, terete, smooth. Leaves as long as the stem and nearly as stout, 

 acuminate, irregularly septate, cylindrie or compressed, multitubular 

 wit]\ a central hollow. Flowers brownish-red in erect umbellately 

 decompound cymes with divaricate branches ; bracts short, puno-ent, the 

 floral hyaline, acuminate, shorter than the flowers. Sepals J^-i in. 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, acute. Petals broader than the sepals, sub- 

 acute. Stamens 6, shorter than the sepals ; filaments filiform, as long 

 as or somewhat longer than the anthers ; anthers linear, yellow. 

 Ovary 3-gonous, ovoid ; style cylindrie, longer than the ovary. Capsules 

 as long as the sepals, 3-gonous-ovoid, mucronate, 3-celIed. "Seeds ovoid, 

 minute, scarcely -^-^ in. long, costate and reticulate, pale hrown, not 

 tailed. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 395; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. v. 12 

 (1890) p. 277 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 5, p. 357; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 525.— Vern. Dher. 



Sind : Stocks, 1093 ! 



There is but a single specimen from Sind in Herb. Kew. from Stocks and 1 from 

 Beluchistan.— DiSTRiB. Beluchistan ; westward to Persia, Arabia, and N. & S. Africa, 



Oedek CXXXVIII. PALM^. 



Shrubs or trees, solitary or gregarious, naked or prickly ; stem erect, 

 scandent or decumbent, rarely branched above. Leaves alternate, usually 

 crowded at the apex of the stem, plicate in bud, pinnatisect or palmate, 

 rarely entire or 2-pinnatisect ; petiole sheathing. Flowers small, herma- 

 phrodite or 1-sexual, usually 3-bracteolate, in branched spikes or panicles, 

 enclosed in one or more large sheathing spathes. Perianth inferior 

 2-seriate ; segments in each series 3, usually all free, imbricate or valvate. 

 Stamens usually 6, inserted in 2 series opposite the perianth-seo-ruents, 

 sometimes 3 opposite the outer series of segments, occasionally many at 

 the base of the perianth, usually included; filaments free or connate 

 subulate or filiform (rarely flattened) ; anthers versatile, 2-celled • 

 dehiscence lateral or extrorse. Ovary 1-3-celled or of 3 one-celled 

 carpels; ovules in each carpel 1-2, anatropous, adnate to the wall, base, 

 or top of the cell ; stigmas 3, usually sessile. Fruit a 1-3-celled drupe 

 or hard berry, or of 1-3 carpels ; pericarp smooth or rough, or clothed 

 with downward-imbricating shining scales. Seeds erect or laterally 

 attached, rarely pendulous ; raphe usually branching all over the testa • 

 albumen horny or bony, uniform or ruminate ; embryo small, in a cavity 

 near the surface of the albumen. — Distbib. Genera about 130 ; species 

 about 1100, chiefly tropical. 



Leaves pinnate or pinnatisect. 



Fruit not clothed with scales ; stem erect, unarmed ; neither 

 the leaf-rhachis nor the spadix nor the sheath produced 

 as an armed flacrellum. 



