Jtmcus.] cxLvi. JUNCACE.*: (baker). 93 



Cosmopolitan, concentrated in the North Temperate zone. Occurs also in Mada- 

 gascar and South Africa. 



2. J, msLvitimuSy Lam. l!j7ici/cl. iii. 264. Perennial, densely tufted 

 on a short rhizome. Leaves few, basal, terete, resembling the stems, 

 dilated at the base into pale brown sheaths. Stems terete, pale green, 

 wiry, finely striated. 2-3 ft. long. Panicle very compound, lateral, sessile, 

 reaching ^ ft. long, bracts rigid, pale green, ovate-lanceolate. Perianth- 

 segments lanceolate, acute, pale green, ^^ in. long. Stamens C. Capsule 

 oblong, acute, as long as the perianth. Seeds distinctly or indistinctly 

 tailed. — Buchen. in Engl. Jahrb. xii. 25() ; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 

 19. ,/. Kraussii, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 342. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 511 ! 

 TStVe Iiand. Somaliland ; Maid, Hildebrandt, 1475 ! 



JmO-wgt Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; marshy places at Aguadas near 

 Mossamedes and by ponds near the River Bero, Weltoitsch, 3007 ! 



Also in South Africa and the North Temperate zone of both hemispheres. 



3. J. punctoriusy Linn, fil Suppl. 208. Perennial, tufted on a 

 short creeping rhizome. Produced leaf one from the middle of the 

 stem, terete, septate ; basal leaves reduced to clasping sheaths. Stem 

 stout, terete, hardly at all striated, 1-4 ft. long. Inflorescence an 

 ample terminal panicle ; flowers many in a cluster ; bracts ovate-cuspi- 

 date, pale green, much shorter than the flowers. Perianth-segments 

 lanceolate, acute, pale green, rigid, -^ in. long. Stamens 6, rather 

 shorter than the perianth. Capsule oblong, acute, brown, as long as 

 the perianth. Seeds not tailed. — Buchen. in Abhand. Naturw. Ver. 

 Bremen, iv. 424, t. 8 ; Engl. Jahrb. xii. 277 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 

 Afr. 158 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 59, 107 ; Baker in 

 Dyer, Fi. Cap. vii. 20. J. Schimj^eri, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. 

 No. 56 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 338. 



ITile Iiand. Eritrea : neaj* Saganeiti, 7400 ft., Schweinfurth ^- Siva, 1747 I 

 1802! Goduie\i\ss\, Eohlfs ^ Sfecher. Abyssinia: Tigre ; near Adowa, iS'cAVmjDer, 56 ! 

 Magdala, Steudner, 927. Somaliland : Golis Range, Miss Edith Cole ! Mrs. E. 

 Lort-Phillips ! 



Also in South Africa, North Africa, and Western Asia. 



4. J. oxycarpus, E. Meyer ex Kunth^ Enum. iii. 330. Peren- 

 nial, densely tufted. Produced leaves 3-5 to a stem, short, subulate, 

 septate. Stems moderately stout, terete, 1-2 ft. long, pale green, 

 hardly at all striated. Inflorescence a sparse terminal panicle ; flowers 

 about 20 in a cluster ; bracts ovate-acuminate, as long as the flowers, 

 Perianth-segments lanceolate, brownish-green, J in. long. Stamens 

 usually 3, much shorter than the perianth. Capsule oblong, dark 

 brown, as long as the perianth. Seeds not tailed. — Buchen. in Abhand. 

 Naturw. Ver. Bremen, iv. 431, t. 8; Engl. Jahrb. xii. 33G ; Pti. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 137 ; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 20. 



srile Iiand. Usambara (ex EngJer). 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Huilla : plentiful in wet sandy situatior.s through- 

 out the district, Welwitsch, 3008 ! 

 Alfo in South Africa. 



