394 CLXII. JUNCACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Juncus. 



ovoid obtuse capsule, stamens much shorter than the sepals, anthers 

 longer than their filaments. Kunth Enum. iii. 351 ; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. xii. 185 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. ix. t. 399. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, Jacquemont ; alt. 7000 ft., Clarke. DISTRIB. 

 Westward to the Atlantic, N. Asia. 



RootstocJc creeping ; stems, 6-24- in., tufted, rigid, fistular, subcompressed, striate. 

 Leaves shorter than the stem, nearly flat, or channelled above, tip subulate ; sheath 

 auricled. Cyme shorter than the filiform lower bracts, compound, lax-fld. ; flowers 

 subsolitary ; sepals 1| in. long, with green or brown narrowly scarious margins. 

 Capsule 3-celled, shining, apiculate. Seeds very minute, apiculate, strongly ribbed. 

 The capsule is shorter than in the usual form of .7. compressus, and as short as in 

 J. Gerardi, which is a salt marsh species (or variety of compressus^), not uncommon 

 in Europe and N. Asia. 



7. J. ochraceus, Buchen. in Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem. iii. 292 ; in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. vi. 207, t. 2 ; xii. 415 ; stems slender, leaves filiform channelled 

 above, cyme compound in small heads usually transformed into crowded 

 plumose clusters of long shining yellow glumes, flowers small pale green, 

 sepals narrow membranous subequal longer than the stamens, anthers 

 longer than the filaments, capsule exserted narrowly ovoid triquetrous 

 cuspidate, style long slender. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 5-9000 ft., abundant. BKOTAN, Griffith. 



Stem densely tufted, 8-12 in. high, grooved. Leaves equalling the stem, or 

 shorter, 2-tubular, wiry ; sheaths long-auricled. Cyme polymorphous, loosely 

 branched, invariably more or less reduced to feathery tufts of golden yellow shining 

 bracts and glumes-like subulate lanceolate sepals with very rarely a few inter- 

 mixed perfect flowers dispersed in small peduncled pile green heads or clusters, very 

 shortly pedicelled ; lower bract filiform, usually short, floral hyaline; sepals ^ in. 

 long, membranous, linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved ; sepals more oblong, 3-nerved, 

 apiculate ; anthers at length strongly twisted ; ovary with the very slender style 

 nearly twice as long as the sepals. Capsule % in. long. Seeds not seen. A 

 remarkable plant, quite unlike any other, doubtfully referred to this section by 

 Buchenau ; perhaps better placed with J.filiformis. 



Sect. IV. Perennial. Stem usually leafy upwards. Leaves terete or 

 compressed, septate within, the septa more or less prominent externally. 

 Cymes terminal ; flowers densely clustered in small heads. 



* Seeds long-tailed at both ends. Stamens exserted. 



8. J. G-risebachii, Buchen. in Abhandl. Nat. Verein. Bremen, iii. 

 295 ; in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 202 ; xii. 265; stoloniferous, stem tall stout, 

 cyrnes of several many-fld. pale yellow globose heads, sepals membranous 

 equalling the ovoid long-beaked capsule, stamens exserted. 



SUBALPINE HIMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 11,000 ft., Duthie-, Sikkim, alt. 10-14,000 ft., 

 J. D. H., Clarice. BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Stems 8-18 in., soft, terete. Leaves as long as the stem, terete, channelled, 

 strongly septate. Cymes with spreading branches ; lower bracts 1-3, very long, 

 leafy, erect; floral ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, membranous; flowers j in. 

 long, sessile or shortly pedicelled ; sepals and petals subequal, acute ; anthers 

 slender as long as their filaments ; style slender. Capsule subterete, shining, 

 almost 3-celled. Seeds very pale, fusiform, testa lax, tails as long as the 

 nucleus. 



9. J. chrysocarpus, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 201 ; xii. 266 ; 

 stems tufted very slender 1-2-leaved, leaves filiform, cyme a solitary 



