400 CLXU, JUNCACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Juncus 
le as long as 
anthers exserted j shorter than the slender filaments, capsule | 
the sepals narrowly lanceolate prismatic, seeds with slender tails. 
Kuasta Hinis, Griffith (Kew distrib. 5451), alt. 5-5500 ft., Clarke. 
Stems 4-10 in., hed eret grooved, leafless above. Leaves e 
the stem, wiry; sheath membranous. Heads usually 2, a later an pairere 
sessile, 3-2 in. diam., quite white ; bracts 3-4, ovate, acute, rarely ne y aen a 
and exceeding the sessile flowers; outer sepals j in. long, keeled, i pec 
longer; anthers linear; style slender, exserted, stigmas short. Lac hom A 
Seeds +; in. long.—The long narrow capsules distinguish this at on 
concinnus. 
24, J. nematocaulon, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. ined | BR 
capillary grooved flexuous, leaves capillary channelled, cymes o mall pale 
1-3-fld. heads, bracts very short lower rarely capillary, sepals s nming 
green lanceolate acuminate not half as long as the prismatic ac slender 
pale capsule, anthers far exserted much shorter than the very 
filaments, style long, stigmas short. 
Assam ; on the Naga hills, Jakpho, alt. 9900 ft., Clarke. . di, 
Stems tufted, 1-11 n. 1-leaved above, sometimes with only one terminal E 
and a capillary bract. Leaves few, flexuous; sheaths very short, m als which 
Flowers sessile, floral bracts membranous about as long as the pale wei in. long, 
equal the petals and are à in. long, l-nerved. Capsule with the bea ne end au 
membranous, pale shining, l-celled. Seeds with a long slender tail at o cios, all 
an equally long inflated one at the other.—A very singular (annual ?) b lon er than 
to J. concinnus and khasiensis, differing from both in the capsule much Jong 
the sepals. Seeds not seen, 
H -like, 
Sect. VI. Perennial. Leaves flat or with involute margins, grass ge 
strongly nerved. Cymes of several capitate clusters. 
. L 
25. J. minimus, Buchen. in Hot. Zeit. 1867, 145; im Engl. P 
Jahrb. vi. 209; xii. 412; stem short stout, leaves chiefly basal, GC emt 
1-2 3-6-fld. dark chesnut sessile heads, lower bract usually ter acute, 
sepals lanceolate glumaceous finely acuminate, petals shor e ds ved 
stamens included, capsule exserted turgid obtuse or retuse, Së 
minute, testa forming an oblong very loose sac. 
SikKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 16-18,000 ft., J. D. H. d, grooved: 
Rootstock short, stout ; stems 2-4 in., densel y tufted, naked or soa tsalle heads 
Leaves shorter than the stem, i-i in. broad. flat, grooved. Cyme with dor; anthers 
3-4 in. diam. ; flowers subsessile ; sepals 1 in. long; petals rather broade as sbort. 
swall, much shorter than the filaments; ovary ovoid; style and SUE reds de in. 
Capsule rarely half as long again as the sepals, dark brown, shining. vmes “occu! 
long, testa white, rounded at both ends.—Imperfect flowers, or even OTT" 
amongst the basal leaves, 
. ii, 4133 
26. J. Clarkei, Buchen, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 210; tom M . 
stoloniferous, stem slender many-leaved, leaves longer than the 8 w-colrd. 
flat, grass-like, cyme of 1-5 globose peduncled 4- many-fld. straw , 
heads, lower bract leafy, sepals lauceolate membranous, stamens ` slendet 
capsule much exserted prismatic long-beaked, seeds with long 
tails. 
. NNI- 
Sikkim HIMALAYA, alt. 10-13,000 ft, J. D. H. Buotay, Griffith. Me 
PORE, on Jakpho, alt. 9900 ft., Clarke, 1 acuminate, 
Stems 6-10 iu., tufted, terete, striate. Leaves 1} in. broad, finely icelled ; 
flaccid ; sheaths membranous. Cyme with heads 34—% in. diam ; flowers about i 
sepals j-i in. long, outer lanceolate, inner more oblong; anthers linear, 
