JUNCACEM. 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. 



F. scan dene, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 193 ; Clarke, in DC. Mon. 

 265 ; F. B. I. vi, 390 ; Prain Beng. PL 1086 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii , 

 796. Tradescantia paniculata, Roxb.; FL Ind. ii y 119. Aneiltma 

 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 T Vi 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 -jVi in. in diam., rather broader than long, abruptly acute 

 at both ends, shining. Seeds transversely w r rinkled on the back. 



Dehra Dun, at Nala Pani, and probably elsewhere in marshy ground, 

 within the area of this flora. DISTRIB. : Throughout Trop. India 

 and in Ceylon, extending to China and Trop. Australia. 



CXIV.-JUNCACEJE. 



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 1-celled 

 ovaries or many on the inner angles of the 3- celled ovaries, ana- 

 tropous. Fruit a 1-3-celled capsule, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 



