322 Prof. Dow's Account of the 
albi, majusculi, brevissimé pedicellati. Bractem partiales ovato-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, concave, scarioso-membranaceæ, albae, lævissimæ, 
floribus vix longiores; communi foliaceà, lineari, obtusa, canaliculata, 
basi dilatata, inflorescentiam dupld superante. Sepala lanceolata, acuta, 
3-nervia (nervis medio approximatis parallelis), glumacea; ezteriora 
3 parüm minora, subconduplicata, carinata. Stamina 6, subæqualia, 
perianthio tripló longiora: filamenta angustè linearia, complanata, alba, 
basi haud dilatata: anthere lineares, obtuse, filamentis 6-pló breviores : 
loculis parallelis, omninó connatis. Pistillum staminibus multó brevius : 
ovarium ovatum, acutum, triquetrum, nitidum, 3-loculare, perianthio 
brevius, loculis multiovulatis: stylus ovarii longitudine : stigmata 3, 
stylo breviora, obtusa, recurvata, longitudinaliter papillosa. 
I have great satisfaction in presenting a full account of this very distinct 
and beautiful species, which has been but very imperfectly characterized by 
me in the work above-quoted. 
The many-headed stems, acute sepals, and the great length of the filaments 
will easily distinguish it from all the other species of this series which it very 
properly terminates, as it evidently forms the transition to the following section. 
The form and direction of the leaves of the species of this group, the higher 
degree of development of their perianthium, their scobiform seeds 
membranous testa produced beyond the nucleus at both extremities, establish 
an intimate relationship between Juncus and Narthecium, as Mr. Brown has 
long ago suggested, and the passage from the latter genus through Antheri- 
cum to the Asphodeleæ is rendered very clear. 
having the 
** Stamina 3 v. 6. Semina minuta, obovata. 
interrupta, hinc nodoso-articulata. 
niculata. 
5. J. acutiflorus. Ehrh. 
Habitat in regione transhimalensi ad Purbunni. 
Royle.) 
Folia cylindrica, intàs septulis 
Inflorescentia terminalis, capitata, pa- 
Inglis. u. (v.s. sp. in Herb. 
The specimen, which was collected by Mr. Inglis 
: à in Purbunni, a district 
situate beyond the Himalayas, differs in no respect from British ones; and it 
