396 CLXII. JUNCACE^!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Juncus. 



Monogr. June. 137, 139 ; Kuntli Enum. iii. 336 ; Thw. Enum. 340. J. Wal- 

 lichianus, La Harpe 1. c. 139 ; Kunfh 1. c. 338. J. indicus, Royle ex Don 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 323; Wall. Gat. 8999. J. monticola, Steud. 

 Syn. PL Glum. ii. 301. Bostkovia ensiformis, Herb. Ham. Juncus, 

 Wall. Oat. 9000. 



Plains of BENGA.L and the PAN.TAB; ascending the Himalaya to 10,000 ft. The 

 KHASIA HILLS, and DECCAN Ghats; BUBMA ; CETLON. DISTRIB. Eastern Asia, 

 Australia. 



Very variable, csespitose, rootstock very short. Stems 18-24 in., sometimes 

 decumbent and rooting at the nodes, leafy, not septate. Leaves 2-10 by J^-F in., 

 always shorter than the stem, acute. Cymes erect, branches erect or spreading ; 

 lower bract leafy, erect, shorter than the cyme; floral hyaline, lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate ; heads hemispheric ; flowers green or brown, sessile ; sepals - in. long, 

 glumaceous ; stamens very short, anthers oblong ; style very short, stigmas long. 

 Capsule usually much exceeding the perianth. Seeds very minute, apiculate, testa 

 appressed, reticulate. The commonest rush in wet meadows in Sikkim. 



Var. sinensis; very slender, flaccid, prostrate and creeping, leaves filiform 

 unitubular, cymes depauperate, heads few-fld. J. sinensis, /. Gay in La Harpe 

 Monogr. June. 137; Kuntli Enum. iii. 336; Buchen. I. c. vi. 203 ; xii. 313. J. in- 

 dicus, var. nanus, Royle III. PI. SimaL 137. J. unibracteatus, Griff". Notul. 

 iii. 232. Bengal, Nepal, and the Khasia hills, in very wet places. 



13. J. leptospermus, Buchen. in Engl. Sot. Jahrb. vi. 203 ; xii. 

 339 ; stems tall, leaves cylindric unitubular, cymes decompound erect, 

 heads crowded sub 5-fld., sepals subulate lanceolate shorter than the 

 narrow lanceolate beaked prismatic capsule, stamens 3 much shorter than 

 the sepals, seeds linear-oblong. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-50CO ft., Griffith, Clarice. 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a crow-quill, terete or subterete, smooth, leafy above, 

 at length fistular. Leaves shorter than the stem, septate, acuminate. Cyme 

 branches erect, stiff; lower bract leafy, floral hyaline, awned ; flowers reddish, 

 prismatic ; sepals ^ 1 in. long, very narrow, rigid, acuminate, margins narrowly 

 membranous; filaments rather longer than the anthers. Capsule 1-celled. Seeds 

 fusiform, pointed at one end, testa close. A taller plant than J. prismatocarpus, 

 less leafy, with a much shorter cyme the branches of 'which are more erect, and 

 with narrower seeds. 



Sect. Y. Leaves narrow, channelled, terete or filiform, 1- many-tubular, 

 septa very indistinct or 0. Cymes consisting of solitary or a few globose 

 or subglobose heads ; Hewers usually large, white yellowish or chesnut- 

 brown. Stamens 6. Seeds scobiform or tailed at each end. 



* Cyme a solitary sessile head. Leaves solitary or few, all at or near 

 the base of the stem. Anthers included, or exserted. 



14. J. triglumis, Linn. Sp. PL 328 ; stem slender stiff naked, leaves 

 short subulate, cyme terminal 3-4-fld. dark brown, bracts short, sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate acute glumaceous, stamens included, filaments equalling 

 or longer than the small anthers, capsule exserted obtuse or mucronate, 

 seeds with long tails. lunth Enum. iii. 358; Huchen. in Engl. Sot. 

 Jahrb. vi. 213 ; xii. 388 ; Soiss. Fl. Orient, v. 355 ; Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 ix. t. 392. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 12-15,000 ft., from Kashmir to 

 Sikkim. DISTRIB. Alpine and Arctic regions of the N. hemisphere. 



Stems 2-6 in., tufted, not stoloniferous. Leaves stiff, 2tubular. Cymes - in. 



