Juneus.] CLXIL JUNCACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 399 
3 shorter than the filaments ; style slender, stigmas long. Capsule nearly twice as 
long as the sepals, tip conical beaked, dark brown, shining. Seds nearly 4 in. long, 
tails very slender.—Very near J. castaneus, of which it may be considered a large 
more robust form, with more membranous sepals, and filaments longer in proportion 
tothe anthers. Buchenau makes two varieties; genuina, with slender stem and 
leaves, very long stigmas, and an ovoidly prismatic obtuse mucronate capsule, and 
var. Schlagentwettii (Sp. Buchen. in Nachr. Koen. Ger. Wiss. Goett. 1869, 255) ; 
stouter, with leaves cylindric below and subulate above, aud more narrowly margined 
inner sepals. 
21. J. sikkimensis, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. ined.; rootstock very 
stout creeping, stem stout base clothed with red brown rigid sheaths, leaf 
solitary or few terete or compressed equalling the stem, cyme of two 
dark brown unilateral sessile 4-6-fld. heads, lower bracts foliaceous 
sheathing longer than the heads, sepals glumaceous outer lanceolate 
finely acuminate, inner linear-oblong obtuse, anthers included much 
eger than the very short filaments, capsule included, seeds with short 
Stout tails. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen valley, alt. 12-14,000 ft. J. D. H. 
Rootstock as thick as a small quill; sheaths of stem 4-1 in. long; stem and 
channelled leaf solid, soft. Bracis 1-2 in., erect or horizontal, its sheath brown. 
rwers sessile; floral bracts broad, membranous, equalling the flowers; sepals 
In. long, smooth, shining, very dark brown, inner with membranous tips ; 
stamens half the length of the sepals, anthers linear, at length twisted. Ovary 
small; style very slender, exserted, stigmas long. Capsule hardly exceeding the 
Sepals, obovoid, acute, shortly beaked, dark brown, shining, 3-septate. Seeds de in. 
long, with thick white tails. 
h Var. monovephala ; much smaller, very slender, stem filiform, cyme a solitary 
oa with an erect stout filiform lower bracts 4-1 in. long, sepals } in.— Lachen valley, 
ikkim, alt. 12,000 ft. 
tt Coespitose, not stoloniferous. Stem more or less leafy. Flowers 
(about 2 in, long). Anthers exserted. 
22. J. concinnus, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 44; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 
321; stem slender, leaves flat or channelled, cyme branched of 2-7 very 
e 6-10-fid. heads, sepals oblong-lanceolate acute membranous, inner 
rather shorter obtuse, anthers far exserted, much shorter than their fila- 
ments, capsule ov oig. beak stout exserted, seeds very minute shortly pro- 
le, i One end. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 215, t. 2; xii. 406. J. 
wë, Royle ex Buchen. in Bot. Zeit. 1867, 146.—Juncus, Wall. Cat. 
K TEMPKRATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 7-13,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. 
“Asta Hilts, alt, 5-6000 ft. 
Stems tufted on a tuberous rootstock, 4-8 in. high, hollow, sulcate. Leaves few, 
area filiform or involute, many-tubular ; sheath membranous. Cyme MM 
done, Preading branches; heads 1-3 in. diam., at length spherical; lowest bract 
» slender, or like the floral short and membranous ; flowers subsessile, white 
see owish ; sepals 4 in. long; filament four times as long as the anther H style 
brow, ? Stigmas short, Capsule very pale, shining. Seeds exceedingly long minute, 
“~Meaves sometimes flat as in J. Clarkei. 
23. y khasi j , ii. 407 ; very slender 
We ensis, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 407 ; very , 
white few filiform curved channelled, ymo of usually two (1-3) 3-103. 
* heads, bracts all shorter than the lanceolate obtuse sepals, 
