394 CLXII. JUNCACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Juncus. 
ovoid obtuse capsule, stamens much shorter than the sepals, anthers 
longer than their filaments. Kunth Enum. iii. 351; Buchen. m Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xii. 185; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. ix. t. 899. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, Jacquemont ; alt. 7000 ft., Clarke.—Di8TRIP. 
Westward to the Atlantic, N. Asia. . 
Rootstock creeping ; stems, 6-24 in., tufted, rigid, fistular, subcompressed, striate. 
Leaves shorter than the stem, nearly flat, or channelled above, tip subulate; sheath 
auricled. Cyme shorter than the filiform lower bracts, compound, lax-fld. ; flowers 
subsolitary ; sepals 1} in. long, with green or brown narrowly scarious margin’ 
Capsule 3-celled, shining, apiculate. Seeds very minute, apiculate, strongly ribbed. 
—The capsule is shorter than in the usual form of J. compressus, aud as short as in 
J. Gerardi, which is a salt marsh species (or variety of compressus), not uncommon 
in Europe and N. Asia. 
7. J. ochraceus, Buchen. in Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem. iii. 292; 1n Engl: 
Bot. Jahrb. vi. 207, t. 2 ; xii. 415; stems slender, leaves filiform channel 
above, cyme compound in small heads usually transformed into crow 
plumose clusters of long shining yellow glumes, flowers small pale green 
sepals narrow membranous subequal longer than the stamens, anthers 
longer than the filaments, capsule exserted narrowly ovoid triquetrous 
cuspidate, style long slender. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-9000 ft., abundant. Bnoraw, Griffith. e 
Stem densely tufted, 8-12 in. high, grooved. Leaves equalling the stem, 
shorter, 2-tubular, wiry; sheaths long-auricled. Cyme polymorphous, rome! 
branched, invariably more or less reduced to feathery tufts of golden yellow $ ioter- 
a fe 
bracts and glumes-like subulate lanceolate sepals with very rarely very 
mixed perfect flowers dispersed in small peduncled pale green heads or clusters, in 
shortly pedicelled ; lower bract filiform, usually short, floral hyaline ; sepals A . 
long, membranous, linear-lanceolate, l-nerved; sepals more oblong, neh le 
apiculate ; anthers at length strongly twisted; ovary with the very slender 8 ty 
nearly twice as long as the sepals. Capsule } in. long. Seeds not seen. by 
remarkable plant, quite unlike any other, doubtfully referred to this section " 
Buchenau ; perhaps better placed with J. filiformis. 
Sect. IV. Perennial. Stem usually leafy upwards. Leaves terete y. 
compressed, septate within, the septa more or less prominent externa 
Cymes terminal; flowers densely clustered in small heads. 
* Seeds long-tailed at both ends. Stamens exserted. 
8. J. Grisebachii, Buchen. in Abhandl. Nat. Verein. Bremen, We 
295 ; in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 202; xii. 265; stoloniferous, stem tall ston 
cymes of several many-fid. pale yellow globose heads, sepals membra 
equalling the ovoid long-beaked capsule, stamens exserted. a 
SUBALPINE HIMALAYA ; Kumaon,alt. 11,000 ft., Duthie; Sikkim, alt. 10-14,000 ^» 
J. D. H., Clarke. Buoran, Griffith. 
Stems 8-18 in., soft, terete. Leaves as long as the stem, terete, 
strongly septate. Cymes with spreading branches; lower bracts 1-3, 
leaty, erect; flora! ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, membranous ; flowers 
long, sessile or shortly pedicelled; sepals and petals subequal, acute ; 
slender as long as their filaments; style slender. Capsule subterete, mn 
almost 3-celled. Seeds very pale, fusiform, testa lax, tails as long 
nucleus. 
channelled, 
very longs 
in. 
9. J. chrysocarpus, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 201; xi. 0 
stems tufted very slender 1-2-leaved, leaves filiform, cyme 8 " 
