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JUNCACEAE. 
1.—JUNCUS. 
Key to species. 
1, Cymes terminal... vei sis AS : 
Cymes not terminal  ... T gs col gu. 
2. Stamens yes vie te 22 M. RINNE 
Stamens 6 Se F e. 3, prismatocarpus. 
1. J. effusus, Linn. ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 392. Near the 
White Cloud monastery, Canton. Fl. Meu Ns 
2. J. alatus, Franch, et Sav. Enum, Pl. Jap. ii. 
alley, Hongkong ; river bank near R "PL 
whitish, A pril. 
3. J. prismatocarpus, R. Br.; J. Leschenaultii, J. Gay; Benth. 
Fl. Hongk. 380. E a ditch in the Happy pea Hong- 
kong ; Pakhoi. Fl. ——, April. 
PALMAE. 
Key to genera. 
1, Unarmed plants e eis as 2. 
ety spiny or thorny exi xis 5. 
2. Tre oe 
Erect shrub 4-10 ft. high 6. Rhapis. 
3. Leaves simp 5. Trachycarpus. 
Leaves compound 4. 
4, Leaf segments cuneate 1. Caryota. 
Leaf segments linear ... 8. ¢ 
5. Leaves simple ... 
Cabs compound f; 
6. Tre 4, Livistona. 
Shrub 2-3 ft. high 3. Licuala, 
7. Stems forming thick trunk, erect 2. Phoenix. 
Stem slender, “erect or climbing 7. Calamus, 
L 
1.—CARYOTA. 
. C. ochlandra, Hance in Journ. Bot. 1879, 176. Cultivated in 
the west of Kwantung and at Canton. FI. yellow, July. 
2.—PHOENIX. 
E i = ; P. acaulis, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 340. Not 
uncom on the hillsides in sunny places, Hongkong ; ; 
in Mem positions on the hills in Hongkong New Terri- 
tory; Macao. Fl. yellow, May. 
3.—LICUALA. 
L. Fordiana, Bece. Malesia, iii. 198. Mt. Parker, and by the 
side of a stream near the A berdeen New Road, Hongkong; 
Lofoushan, Fl. yellow, August, 
