1088 BENGAL PLANTS. [Juncus. 
minal on the scape-like stems, with 1-3 leafy bracts. Perianth 
with ume-like segments, free, lanceolate or oblong, often with 
scarious ea, the 3 outer keeled or with a thickened midrib. 
Stamens 6, rarely 8, hypogynous or nearly so; anthers oblong or 
linear, erect; dehiscence longitudinal, introrse. Carpels 3, con- 
nate in a L oallad or an imperfectly or perfectly 3-celled ovary ; 
ovules many on each placenta; style filiform; stigmatic arms 3, 
filiform, often eet twisted. Fruit a capsule, dehiscing by 3 
valves with mesial placentas, or rarely by 3 valves leaving the 
Piidecthas persistent or connate in a central column. Seeds small, 
ovoid; testa striate, reticulate or transversely lineate; embryo 
small, near the base of the fleshy albumen. 
Annual; leaves not septate; stems copiously branched ; cymes scat- 
tered, few-flowered ; lateral flowers 6-androus, terminal 3-androus 
bufonius. 
Perennial; leaves indistinctly, distantly septate; cymes terminal; 
flowers densely clustered in small heads; flowers all 3-androus 
prismatocarpus. 
2258. Juncus Buronius Linn.; F. B. I. vi. 392. 
N. Bengal; Tirhut 
A local weed, near dikohea. 
2259. JuNcus PRISMATOCARPUS R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 395. 
W. Bengal; Tirhut. 
A common weed, in very wet places. 
Order CXLII. PALMEZ. 
Shrubs, sometimes climbing, or trees, solitary or gregarious, 
naked or prickly ; stems simple, rarely branched above. Leaves 
alternate, usually crowded at apex of stem, plicate in bud, pinnati- 
sect or palmate, rarely entire or 2-pinnatisect ; petiole sheathing. 
Flowers small, hermaphrodite or 1-sexual, usually 3-bracteolate, 
in branched spikes or panicles, enclosed in one or more large, 
sheathing spathes. Perianth inferior, 2-seriate ; segments in each 
series 3, usually all free, imbricate or valvate. Stamens usually 6, 
2-seriately inserted pape the perianth-segments, sometimes 3 
opposite outer series of segments, occasionally many at the base 
subulate or filiform, rarely flattened; anthers versatile, 2-locular ; 
