JUNCUS.] JUNCACEM. 283 



petals. Capsule shorter than and closely embraced by the perianth, 

 obovoid, mucronate. Seeds very minute, finely reticulate. 



Dehra Dun, Saharanpur, Etawah, and Merwara (Duthie) ; Agra (Munro) ; 

 Moradabad (T. Thomson) : Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). DISTBIB. r 

 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. 



2. J. prismatocarpus, R. Broum Prod. 259 ; F. B. I vi, 395 ; 

 Collett Fl Siml. 536 ; Prain Beng. PI 1088. J. indicus, Eoyle ex 

 Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii, 323. 



A perennial csespitose 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 fiat or sometimes tubular and indistinctly externally septate. 

 Cymes erect, irregularly compound ; heads hemispheric, densely 

 6-10-fld. ; 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, J-J 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, reticulate. 



'N. Oudh, in the Kheri district, Merwara, in tanks (Duthie) ; also 

 probably in many other localities within the area of this flora, in wet 

 ground. DISTRIB. : 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. 



