Juncus. | CLXI. JUNCACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 395 
mauy-fld. pale yellow globose or hemispheric head, sepals membranous 
shorter than the long-beaked capsule. 
Stxxim HIMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. H.; Clarke. 
Stem as thick as packthread. Leaves equalling or exceeding the stem, strongly 
or faintly (sometimes externally obscurely) septate. Cymes 3-2 in. diam.; lower 
bracts produced and filiform or not ; flowers sessile; sepals } in. long, ovate. 
lanceolate acuminate and petals almost hyaline; stamens, style and seeds as 
in J. Grisebachii.—Differs trom Grisebachii in its small size, slender habit, 
solitary head and smaller flowers. With difficulty distinguished from J. membra- 
naceus, to which this and Grisebachii are most closely allied. 
** Seeds not tailed. Stamens included. 
10. J. punctorius, Linn. J. Suppl. 208; tall, stout, leaves cylindric 
TT compressed multitubular with a central hollow, cyme terminal erect 
ambellately compound, heads many and many-fld., sepals oblong-lanceo- 
late acute, petals broader subacute, stamens 6, capsule equalling the sepals 
ovoid mucronate 3-celled, seeds ovoid very minute. Kunth Enwm. iii. 
382; Buchen. in Abh. Nat. Verein. Bremen, iv. 424; in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
m. 277; Boiss, Fl. Orient. v. 357. 
SINDA, Sfocks.—DrsTRIB. Westwards to Persia, Arabia and N. and S. Africa. 
Pale green, 2 tt. high; rootstock stout creeping; stems soft often as thick as a 
fse-quill. Leaves as long as the stem, and nearly as stout, acuminate, irregularly 
Date, Cyme decompound; branches divaricate; bracts short, pungent, floral 
hyaline acuminate; flowers brownish, sessile or shortly pedicelled ; sepals ,';—$ in. 
ng, glumaceous ; stamens about 2 shorter than the :epals, filaments rather longer 
an the anthers ; style long. Capsule prismatic, apiculate. Seeds costate and 
Teticulate, 
li. J. lampocarpus, Ehr. Calum. n. 126; stems erect or ascending 
terete or compressed leafy, leaves linear-subulate unitubular strongly 
septate, cymes subumbellately compound with divaricate branches bearing 
‘mall 2-5-Ad. heads of sessile small flowers, stamens 6 much shorter than 
the lanceolate subacute or obtuse sepals, capsule pyramidal mucronate 
“celled, tip exserted, seeds obovoid. Kunth Enum. iii. 325; Boiss. Fi. 
Orient, v. 358; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 376; Reichb. Ic. FT. 
erm. ix, t. 405. J. articulatus, Lina. Sp. Pl. i. 327. 
Norra West INDIA ; Lahore, Thomson; Jhelum river, Jacquemonf. HIMALAYA 
and Wester TIBET, alt. 7-14 000 ft.; very common from Kashmir to Kundwur.— 
Disters. North temp. regions." 
b 1 ootstock horizontal; stems densely tufted, 4-10 in., rather stout, soft, at length 
d Ow. Leaves terete or compressed, acute. Cyme with stout strict divaricate 
res 4-1 in, long, bearing small heads at the forks and tips; lower bracts leafy, 
oral ovate-lanceolate, mucronate ; heads 1—} in. diam. ; hemispheric ; sepals ġ in. 
ong, green or brown, margins membranous ; anthers about equalling the filaments ; 
“yle short, Capsule green or brown. Seeds reticulate, testa appressed. 
12, J. prismatoca Br. Prodr. Fl. N. Holl. 259; stem erect 
ebe or Compressed, loaves fliform or broader soft compressed or terete 
ual many-tubular indistinctly externally distantly septate, cymes irre- 
Buarly Compound, heads densely 6-10-fld., sepals subulate or lmear- 
seeolate, stamens 3 much shorter than the sepals, style very short, 
am le prismatic or conical rather longer than the sepals, seeds obovoid or 
Psoid. Kunth Enum. PL iii. 33; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. JaArb. xii. 311; 
‘quel, Fl. Ind. Bat, iii. 246. J. Leschenaultii, J. Gay in La Harpe 
