396 CLXII. JUNCACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Juncus. 
Monogr. Junc. 137, 189; Kunth Enum. iii. 336; Thw. Enum. 340., J. Ka 
lichianus, La Harpe l. c. 199; Kunth Le, 338. J. indicus, Royle ex f 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 323; Wall. Cat. 8999. J. monticola, Steud. 
Sun. Pl. Glum. ii. 301. Rostkovia ensiformis, Herb. Ham.—4J uncus, 
Wall. Cat. 9000. 
Plains of BENGAL and the PANJAB; ascending the Himalaya to 10,000 ft. Ké 
Knasra HiLrs, and Deccan Ghats; BURMA; CEYLON.—DISTRIB. Eastern 
Australia. . . 
Very variable, cespitose, rootstock very short. Stems 18-24 Wé Sg 
decumbent and rooting at the nodes, leafy, not septate. Leaves 2-10 by 35 ding; 
always shorter than the stem, acute. Cymes erect, branches erect or spres long: 
lower bract leafy, erect, shorterthan the cyme; floral hyaline, lanceo e long 
acuminate ; heads hemispheric; flowers green or brown, sessile ; sepals $$ as long. 
glumaceous; stamens very short, anthers oblong; style very short, WR test 
Capsule usually much exceeding the perianth. Seeds very minute, apiculate, 
appressed, reticulate.—' The commonest rush in wet meadows in Sikkim. "s 
Var. sinensis; very slender, flaccid, prostrate and „creeping, pA Harpe 
unitubular, cymes depauperate, heads few-fld. J. sinensis, J. Gay 13 Jin- 
Monogr. June, 137; Kunth Enum. iii. 836; Buchen. l. c. vi. 203 ; xu. 979 Notul. 
dicus, var. nanus, Royle Ill. Pl. Himal. 137. J. unibracteatus, Griff. 
iii. 232.— Bengal, Nepal, and the Khasia hills, in very wet places. 
13. J. leptospermus, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 205; 
339; stems tall, leaves cylindric unitubular, cymes decompous e the 
heads crowded sub ó-fld., sepals subulate lanceolate shorter t than 
narrow lanceolate beaked prismatic capsule, stamens 3 much shorter 
the sepals, seeds linear-oblong. 
Kuasta HiLZs, alt. 4-50C0 ft., Griffith, Clarke. fy above, 
Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a crow-quill, terete or subterete, smooth, leafy Cyme 
at length fistular. Leaves shorter than the stem, septate, acuminate, i9 
branches erect, stiff; lower bract leafy, floral hyaline, awned ; flowers ieri 
prismatic ; sepals i-i in. long, very narrow, rigid, acuminate, margins D p* 
membranous ; filaments rather longer than the anthers. Capsule 1-celle iocorpis, 
fusiform, pointed at one end, testa close.—A taller plant than J. prismato t an 
less leafy, with a much shorter cyme the branches of which are more erect, 
with narrower seeds. ` 
Sect. V. Leaves narrow, channelled, terete or filiform, 1- many tobuli 
septa very indistinct or 0. Cymes consisting of solitary or a few g snut- 
or subglobose heads ; flowers usually large, white yellowish or che 
brown. Stamens 6. Seeds scobiform or tailed at each end. 
. . . ear 
* Cyme a solitary sessile head. Leaves solitary or few, all at or ? 
the base of the stem. Anthers included, or exserted. 
. ves 
14. J. triglumis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 328; stem slender stiff naked, éi s 
short subulate, cyme terminal 3-4-fld. dark brown, bracts short, “Eng 
oblong-lanceolate acute glumaceous, stamens included, filaments eq nate, 
or longer than the small anthers, capsule exserted obtuse or p Bot: 
seeds with long tails. Kunth Enum. iii. 358; Buchen. in 1. Germ. 
Jahrb. vi. 213; xii. 388; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 355; Reichb. lc. AL 
ix. t. 392, 
ALPINE HIMALAYA and WESTERN Ter, alt. 12-15,000 ft., from Kas 
Sikkim.—Drstr1B. Alpine and Arctic regions of the N. hemisphere. sat 
Stems 2-6 in., tufted, not stoloniferous, Leaves stitf, 2-tubular. Cyme 
hmir to 
in. 
