Juncus.) JUNCACEA. 1087 
980. Flagellaria Linn. 
climbing shrub, with long, slender stems ; leaves many, lan- 
ceolate, with tendril-like tips; nerves many, parallel. Flowers 
many, small, hermaphrodite, Lieiet or spicate along the branches 
of a terminal panicle; bracts small, scale-like. Perianth su 
petaloid; segments 6, ovate, obtuse. Stamens 6, hypogynous. 
Carpels 8, connate in a 3-celled ovary; ovules solitary, raat 
affixed ; style divided nearly to the base into 3 subentire or 2-par 
tite stigmatic arms. Fruit a small globose or ovoid drupe, with 
a thin, succulent exocarp, and a bony, 1-2- tial endocarp. 
Seed globose or ovoid; testa adpressed, ages 
2257. FLAGELLARIA INDICA Linn. ; F, I. ii. 154; ?. B I. vi. 391. 
Ong: 
A lofty reed-like climber, with cirrhose leaf-tips. Hind. 
Harcharal; Beng. Ban-chanda. 
Order CXLI. JUNCACEA, 
Erect, perennial, rarely annual herbs; stems tufted or with a 
Creeping rootstock. Leaves flat, terete, or reduced to anne 
wers Ria ait regular, in axillary or terminal cym 
usually small ; bracts small, scarious, green or white siectidaien 
or brown Siasanons Perianth inferior, eaten segments or 
lobes 6, more or less 2-seriate, free or elow in a very 
short tube, persistent, imbricate. viaiees pmnrice 6, adnate to 
base of perianth-lobes or epererne occasionally the 3 of the 
inner series absent ; filaments filiform ; anthers wine, Carpels 
3, connate in a 3-celled or 1-celled anparist ovary ; , basilar 
in 1-celled Ovaries, numerous on inner angles of ‘oat in 3- celled 
Ovaries, anatropous. Fruit a 1-3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved 
Capsule, Seeds erect ; testa membranous, often produced at each 
end ; albumen dense ; embryo small, near hil 
981. Juncus Linn. 
Perennial, rarely annual, glabrous herbs; stems simple under 
the inflore: scence; leaves radical or few near base of stem, linear 
or terete or reduced to sheaths. Flowers small, usually clustered 
in fascicles or 2-fid cymules, either sessile capitate, or unequ 
Peduncled paniculate, the whole inflorescence terminal or subter- 
