Juncus.] CLXII. JUNCACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 395 



xnany-fld. pale yellow globose or hemispheric head, sepals membranous 

 shorter than the long-beaked capsule. 



SIKIUM HIMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. H.; Clarke. 



Stem as thick as packthread, leaves equalling or exceeding the stem, strongly 

 or faintly (sometimes externally obscurely) septate. Cymes -^ | in. diam. ; lower 

 bracts produced and filiform or not; flowers sessile; sepals i in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate and petals almost hyaline; stamens, style and seeds as 

 in J. Grisebachii. Differs from G-risebachii in its small size, slender habit, 

 solitary head and smaller flowers. With difficulty distinguished from J. membra- 

 naceus, to which this and Grisebacliii are most closely allied. 



** Seeds not tailed. Stamens included. 



10. J. punctorius, Linn. f. Suppl. 208 ; tall, stout, leaves cylindric 

 or compressed multitubular with a central hollow, cyme terminal erect 

 umbellately compound, heads many and many-fid., sepals oblong-lanceo- 

 late acute, petals broader subacute, stamens 6, capsule equalling the sepals 

 ovoid mucronate 3-celled, seeds ovoid very minute. Kunfh Enum iii. 

 332 ; Buchen. in Abh. Nat. Verein. Bremen, iv. 424 ; in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 xii. 277 ; Boi*s. Fl. Orient, v. 357. 



SINDEI, Stocks. DISTRIB. Westwards to Persia, Arabia and N. and S. Africa. 



Pale green, 2 ft. high ;Tootstock stout creeping ; stems soft often as thick as a 

 goose-quill. Leaves as long as the stem, and nearly as stout, acuminate, irregularly 

 septate. Cyme decompound ; branches divaricate ; bracts short, pungent, floral 

 hyaline acuminate ; flowers brownish, sessile or shortly pedicelled ; sepals iV'i in. 

 long, glumaceous ; stamens about shorter than the ? epals, filaments rather longer 

 than the anthers; style long. Capsule prismatic, apiculate. Seeds costate and 

 reticulate. 



11. J. lampocarpus, Ehr. Calam. n. 126 ; stems erect or ascending 

 terete or compressed leafy, leaves linear-subulate unitubular strongly 

 septate, cymes subumbellately compound with divaricate branches bearing 

 small 2-5-fld. heads of sessile small flowers, stamens 6 much shorter than 

 the lanceolate subacute or obtuse sepals, capsule pyramidal mucronate 

 1-celled, tip exserted, seeds obovoid. Kunth Enum. iii. 325 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 358; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 376; Reichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ. ix. t. 405. J. articulatus, Linn. Sp. PI. i. 327. 



NORTH WEST INDIA ; Lahore, Thomson ; Jhelum river, Jacquemont. HIMALAYA 

 and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 7-14,000 ft. ; very common from Kashmir to Kundwur. 

 DISTRIB. North temp, regions. 



Rootstock horizontal; stems densely tufted, 4-10 in., rather stout, soft, at length 

 hollo w. Leaves terete or compressed, acute. Cyme with stout strict divaricate 

 branches -1 in. long, bearing small heads at the forks and tips; lower bracts leafy, 

 floral ovate-lanceolate, mucronate ; heads i_ in. diam. ; hemispheric; sepals in. 

 long, green or brown, margins membranous ; anthers about equalling the filaments ; 

 style short. Capsule green or brown. Seeds reticulate, testa appressed. 



12. J. prismatocarpus, Br. Prodr. Fl. N. Holl. 259 ; stem erect 

 terete or compressed, leaves filiform or broader soft compressed or terete 

 1- or many-tubular indistinctly externally distantly septate, cymes irre- 

 gularly compound, heads densely 6-10-fld., sepals subulate or linear- 

 lanceolate, stamens 3 much shorter than the sepals, style very short, 

 capsule prismatic or conical rather longer than the sepals, seeds obovoid or 

 ellipsoid. Kunth Enum. PI. iii. 33 ; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 311 ; 

 Miguel, Ft. Ind. Bat. iii. 246. J. Leschenaultii, J. Gay in La Harjpe 



