Juneus.] CLXII. JUNCACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 397 
diam., outer bracts dark brown, spreading, usually shorter than the sessile flowers ; 
sepals 3-1 in.; inner rather broader, tips membranous; style and stigmas short. 
Seeds 3, in. long, including the long white tails. 
15. J. leucomelas, Royle ex Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 320; 
stem filiform naked, leaves 1-2 filiform very short, cyme a 3-8-fld. white 
head, bracts brown lower usually produced, sepals linear-oblong obtuse 
membranous, anthers very long exserted, capsule ovoid-oblong shortly 
exserted, seeds long-tailed. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 211; xii. 
391. J. Thomsoni, Buchen. in Bot. Zeit. xxv. (1867) 148; in Engl. Bot. 
Jahrb. xii, 390. 
WzsrERN HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 
12-16,000 ft.—DISTRIB. Mongolia. 
„Stems tufted, 2-6 in., not stoloniferous, hollow. Leaves l-2-tubular. Cyme 
itary; upper bracts pale, membranous ; sepals subequal, 1-3 in. long; inner with 
membranous margins ; anthers rather shorter than the filaments ; style and stigmas 
short, Capsule l-celled. Seeds 45 in. long.—1 cannot distinguish J. Thomsoni 
except by its dark chesnut colrd. flowers, a very variable character. 
l6. J. bracteatus, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 220; xii. 397 ; 
stem very slender (rarely l-leaved?), leaves few short filiform, cyme a 
solitary 3-5-fld. hemispheric head much exceeded by the horizontal filiform 
ower bracts, flowers pale or dark, sepals oblong-lanceolate membranous 
pots, anthers exserted, style long, capsule included beaked, seeds shortly 
aled. 
SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 12,000 ft.; Garwhal, Duthie; Sikkim, J. D. H. 
Stems tufted, 6-8 in., fistular; basal sheaths soft. Leaves subcompressed 
tubular, Cyme } in. broad, upper bracts rather membranous, brown, equalling the 
shortly pedicelled flowers ; sepals } in. long; anthers linear, as long as the fila- 
ments, Capsule ovoid, l-celled. Seeds scobiform, testa shortly produced at each 
ead.—Buchenan places this in the group with a leaf on the stem, this may occur 
pcasionally, but I think that specimen of J. leucanthus may have been mixed with 
acteatus, On the other hand the absence or presence of a stem leaf in the species 
of this section is I fear far from a good one, and J. bracteatus is perhaps only a 
rm of leucomelas, 
* Oy me a solitary sessile head. Stem with one or more leaves above 
the middle. Anthers exserted, linear. 
l7. J. leucanthus, Royle ex Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 318; 
stem slender, basal sheaths hard brown, leaves filiform, cyme solitary 
m - pale y ellow, bracts short brown, sepals oblong-lanceolate subacute 
seed, ranous, capsule and long style exserted beaked with the long style, 
d 8 with very short tails. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 218; xn. 
— Wall. Cat. 9002 B and 3480 in part. 
ALPINE HrALAYA ; from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 11-13,000 ft. 
tem 6-8 in., tufted, at length hollow. Leaces very slender, uppermost equalling 
ww tem, unitubular, subacute. Cyme j-j in. diam., bracts ovate-oblong, acute, 
ermost, equalling the flowers, sometimes produced to l in.; flowers shortly 
slender Sepals 2 in. long; anthers half as long as the filaments ; style long, 
Seeds i gmas Short. Capsule obovoid-oblong, cuspidately beaked, ej n ` 
Var, aly , quely ovoid, testa loose shortly produced at each end. Buc any ‘a 
with "itm Ql e. xii, 395), from Jongri in Sikkim (alt. 13,000 ft., Clarke), sma 
rown cymes and smaller flowers. 
18. J. membranaceus, Royle ex Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 
