 JUNCACER. 281 
glabrous. Ovary 2-celled, style simple, ovules solitary in each cell. 
Fruit a compressed or didymous loculicidal 2-celled capsule. Seeds 
solitary in each cell, hemispheric.—Species about 12, in the warmer 
regions of the world. 
¥. scandens, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 193; Clarke in DC. Mon. 
265 ; F. B. 1. vi, 390 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1086 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii 
796. Tradescantia paniculata, Rozb.; Fl. Ind. ii, 119. Aneilema 
hispidum. Don. Prod. 45. 
Root fibrous. Stem rather slender ; erect or subscandent, often creeping 
and rooting below; internodes long; branches ascending leafy 
below, glabrous or hairy. Leaves subsessile, 2-4 in. long, elliptic- 
lanceolate, acuminate, much narrowed at the base, scaberulous 
above ; sheaths loose, short, glabrous or villous, the mouth fringed 
with long hairs. Panicles shortly stalked, pyramidal, with long 
erect or ascending many-fld. branches. Flowers small, pedicelled, 
subglobose, the lower ones bracteate, the upper without bracts, 
Sepals 35-4 in. long, rotund-ellipsoid, villous, Petals longer than 
sepals, broadly obovate, white lilac or pink. Filaments equal, 
longer than petals, purplish; anthers yellow. Ovary glabrous. 
Capsule ~5-% in. in diam., rather broader than long, abruptly acute 
at both ends, shining. Seeds transversely wrinkled on the back. 
Dehra Dun, at- Nala Pani, and probably elsewhere in marshy ground, 
within the area of this flora. Drsrrrs.: Throughout Trop. India 
and in Ceylon, extending to China and Trop. Australia. 
CXIV.—JUNCACEZ. 
Erect usually perennial herbs. Stems tufted or with a creeping 
rootstock. Leaves flat, terete or reduced to sheaths. Flowers 
small, in axillary cymes, 2-sexual, green or whitish and menbranous, 
or brown and coriaceous, bracts small. Perianth inferior, seg- 
ments or lobes 6, more or less 2-seriate, persistent, imbricate. 
Stamens 6, rarely 3, hypogynous or on the bases of the perianth 
segments, occasionally those of the inner series obsolete, filaments 
filiform, anthers basifixed. Ovary superior, 3 or 1-celled ; style 
simple, with 3 brush-like stigmas ; ovules 3, basilar in the l-celled 
ovaries or many on the inner angles of the 3-celled ovaries, ana- 
tropous. Fruit a 1-3-celled capsule, loculicidally 3-valvyed. Seeds 
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