Joncvs.] - JUNCACES. 283 
petals. Capsule shorter than and closely embraced by the perianth, 
obovoid, mucronate. Seeds very minute, finely reticulate: 
Dehra Dun, Saharanpur, Etéwah, and Merwara (Duthie) ; Agra (Munro) ; 
Moradabad (T. Thomson): Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). DisTrrm. : 
Plains of N. India and up to 13,000 ft. on the Himalayan ranges ; 
extending to China, S. Africa, Europe (including Britain) to the 
Arctic regions. 
" g. J. prismatocarpus, Rk. Brown Prod. 259; F. B. I vi, 395; 
Collett Fl. Siml. 536 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1088. J. indicus, Royle ex 
Don in Trans. Linn, Soc. xvii, 323. 
A perennial cespitose herb ; rootstock very short. Stem erect, 18-24 
in. long, terete or compressed, sometimes decumbent and rooting 
at the nodes. Leaves few, 2-10 in. long, shorter than the stem, soft, 
terete or flat or sometimes tubular and indistinctly externally septate. 
Cymes erect, irregularly compound; heads hemispheric, densely 
6-10-fid. ; lower bract leaflike, erect, shorter than the cyme; floral 
bracts hyaline, lanceolate-acuminate. Flowers green or brown, in 
small sessile clusters in the axils and at the ends of the unequal 
branches of an erect terminal panicle. Sepals glume-like, }-} in. 
long. Stamens 3, much shorter than the perianth. Style short, 
stigmas long. Capsule equalling or longer than the perianth, pri- 
matic or conical. Seeds minute, reticuiate. 
"N. Oudh, in the Kheri district, Merw4rd, in tanks (Duthie); also 
probably in many other localities within the area of this flora, in wet 
ground. Disrrrs.: Common in the plains of Bengal and the Punjab 
and up to 10,000 ft. on the Himalaya; also on the Bombay Ghats 
and the Khasia Hills and extending to Ceylon, Burma and Australia. 
