444 Key to the System of 



F AX.3MCA.E. 

 LIVISTONA. 



1892. Leaves almost fan-like in outline and folds. 



Finally very tall ; trunk quite straight ; leaves very large, 

 terminally crowded, long-stalked, rigid, deeply lobed, each 

 lobe narrow and again short-bifid, the lobules acute ; 

 panicle very ample, glabrous, bent downward ; flowers 

 unprovided with stalklets ; petals somewhat carnulent, 

 yellowish, longer than the stamens ; fruitlet globular, 

 dark-colored outside. L. Australia. 



JUNCEAE. 

 X.UZTTX.A. 



1893. Seeds provided with a basal funicular appendage. 



Never tall ; leaves flat, flaccid, mainly basal, sparsely beset 

 with scattered long hairlets, but getting occasionally 

 glabrous in age ; flowers quite small, in paniculate or 

 umbellate or sometimes crowded clusters ; bracts short, 

 scarious ; sepals and petals longer than the fruit, gradually 

 pointed, variously brownish, often pale-margined ; fila- 

 ments considerably shorter than the anthers ; fruit quite 

 small, one-celled, its vertex blunt ; seeds basal, ovate- 

 globular. I., campestris. 



JUNCTTS. 



1894. Annual. 



Dwarf, often of a rather pale or somewhat reddish hue ; 

 stem thin, branched, scantily leafy ; leaves narrow-linear, 

 channelled, pointed ; flowers scattered or two or few to- 

 gether, arranged in a cyme, occasionally only one on a 

 whole plant, mostly unprovided with stalklets, often 

 cleistogamous ; bracts broadish ; sepals and petals much 

 pointed ; stamens three or oftener six ; fruit narrow- 

 ellipsoid, quite blunt, three-celled, considerably shorter 

 than the sepals and petals, often reddish ; seeds globular- 

 ovate, without any appendage. (Probably immigrated.) 



J. bufoiiius. 

 Perennial 1895 



1895. Stems branchless 1896 



Stems branched ... 1904 



1896. Leaves flat 1897 



Leaves channelled- or filiform-cylindrical ... ... 1899 



