Plants of the Punjab, 



499 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Gagea persica, 



LlLIACE^, 



F. B. I. vi. 355. 

 Himalaya, 

 8,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Gagea reticulata, 



LlLIACE^. 



F. B. I. vi. 356. 

 The Plains to 

 6,000 ft. 

 Salt Eange, 

 Kashmir. 



Commelina 

 coelestis, 



Juneus bufonius, 

 The toad rush, 



JuNCACEiE. 



P. B. I. vi. 392. 

 The Plains to 

 13,000 ft. 



like the last species, but leaf narrower, flowers many 

 in a cluster, bracts many, very short, linear, each bearing 

 a flower or bulbil in its axil, calyx smaller, lobes linear, 

 blunt. 



like Gagea lutea, but leaf grass-like, bracts several, 

 leaf-like, very unequal, whorled, calyx lobes linear, finely 

 pointed. 



Juneus glaucus, 

 Hard rush, 



Juncace^. 

 F. B. I. vi. 393. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-9,000 ft. 

 Matiana, Theog 

 (Coiiett). 

 Kashmir. 



Juneus eompressus, 



JUNCACE^. 



F. B. I. vi. 393. 

 Himalaya, 

 Kashmir. 

 7,000 ft. 

 (Jacquemont), 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Simple, 



small, annual, pale-coloured, tufted, stems 1-10 in., 

 slender, often branching from near the base ; leaves flat, 

 few, chiefly radical, stem leaves shorter ; flowers |-J in. 

 long, solitary or in small clusters, sessile on the stem or 

 branches, pale green, calyx inferior, lobes 6 in 2 rows, 

 3 outer lobes keeled, lanceolate, long-pointed with broad 

 membranous margins, stamens 6, half as long as the calyx 

 lobes ; capsule oblong, minutely pointed, shorter than the 

 calvx. 



medium size to large, perennial, rootstock creeping, 

 tufted, stems 12-36 in., many, tufted, pale green, stiff, 

 cylindric, finely grooved, leafless, produced beyond the 

 flower, bases closed with a leafless sheath ; leaves none or 

 cylindric like the stems ; flowers minute, brown, sessile 

 solitary, stamens 6, shorter than the calyx lobes ; capsule 

 ovoid, pointed, equal to or rather longer than the calyx. 



small to medium size, perennial, rootstock creeping, 

 stems 6-24 in., tufted, rigid, slender, 1-2-leaved, hollow, 

 somewhat flattened, striated ; leave ; shorter than the stem, 

 slender, grooved, nearly flat, tip awl-shaped, sheath with 

 ear-shaped processes ; flowers almost sohtary in terminal 

 clusters, shorter than the thread-like lower bracts, com- 

 pound, calyx lobes 1-| in. long, hnear-oblong, blunt, with 

 green or brown thin margins about equal to the broad ovoid 

 capsule, stamens much shorter or less than the the calyx 

 lobes ; capsule 3-celled, shining, with a small point. 



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