813 PALMAiE. (palm family.) 



along their icliole length ; leaves linear, acute, 8-10-nerved, .006 to .008 

 broad at base. Panicle terminal, corymbose, with a bract at base 

 sliorter than flowers; flowers 5-7 in a head, crowded, stellate; bracts 

 aristate-tapering; divisions of perigonium lanceolate, tapering-subulate; 

 capsule * * — July — Pebbly places in torrent above 'Ars(is. 



1 1 1 1 ft Stems leafy. Leaves terete or compressed, hollow, with transverse 

 septa. Panicle terminal. Stamens six. Seeds caudate. 



8. J. piiiictoriiis, L. 2f 1 or more; root-stock thick, creeping; 

 stems tall, terete, somewhat flattened, with obtuse, leafless sheaths at 

 base, and one. terete, pungent leaf toward middle, longer than inflores- 

 cence. Panicle compound, dense or spreading, composed of dense, 

 globular, many-flowered clusters; divisions of perigonium rusty, equal, 

 scarious-margined, linear-lanceolate, the outer acute, concave, the in- 

 ner flat, obtusish; capsule ovate, 3-angled, 3-celled, short-apiculate, 

 somewhat longer than perigonium — July — Sinai; Shetura. 



9. J. laiiiprocarpus, Ehr. If .4 to .6; root-stock clustered,, 

 often stoloniferous ; culms flattened-terete, leafy, ascending or decum- 

 bent; leaves terete-compressed, when dry fiuc-striate. Panicle com- 

 pound, loose, corymbose ; heads 4-10-flowered; divisions of perigonium 

 brown, equal, narrowly scarious-mai'gined, lanceolate, the outer acute, 

 the inner obtusish or acute; capsule glossy, ovate, acute, 1-celled, 

 abruptly mucronate, longer than perigonium — Summer — Common 

 throughout, 



10. J, pyraiiiiclatus, Lahm. 21 .4: to G-^ root chisieved, furnished 

 irith suclers, creeping alove the ground ; stems erect, leafy, leaves some- 

 what compressed, hollow, ■ nodose, striate. Inflorescence corymbose, 

 simple or compound, with short, spieading branches; clusters hemi- 

 spherical, G-20-flowered ; divisions of perigonium brown, lanceolate, 

 acuminate-aristate, white-margined, 1-nerved, striate, nearly equal; 

 capsule acutely o-auglcd, pjyramidal, tapering into a beak a third 

 longer than perigonium — Summer — Common. 



Var. Kotscliyi, Boiss. Smaller. Capsule less acute. 



■-'-' * Annuals. Stamens six. Seeds not caudate. 



11. J. bufoiiius, L. © .1 to .3; many-few-stemmed; stems 

 slender, erect or diffuse, leafy ; leaves linear-setaceous, grooved at base. 

 Flowers solitary, more or less remote in erect, corymbose cymes; di- 

 visions of perigonium pale, lanceolate-subulate, membranous-margined, 

 the outer longer; capsule oblong, triquetrous, obtuse, mucronulate, 

 shorter than perigonium — Spring and summer — Common, 



Var. faseiciilatu§, Koch. Flowers in dense, head-like clusters. 



12. J. Tciiageia, Ehrh. ,1 to .3; stems filiform, simple or 

 branched, 1-2-lcaved; leaves setaceous, grooved at base. Flowers sol- 

 itary, remote, in loose cymes, forming a diffuse panicle; Iranches of 

 cymes lifid ; divisions of perigonium ovate-lanceolate, acute, equal; 

 capsule nearly globular, obscurely 3-angled, obtuse, mucronate, about 

 as long as perigonium — Summer — Subalpine Lebanon and Ccelesyria, 



Order CXIV. PALMES, Juss. (Palm Family). 



Trees, with graceful, ^^i?wirt^<2 or ixilmate leaves, crowded 

 (I I ilu fop of the tr\tnli, {pur s)dicec{o^is,iu kite flowers, inserted 



