Juncus."] CLXII. JUNCAOE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 397 



diam., outer bracts dark brown, spreading, usually shorter than the sessile flowers ; 

 sepals -i|- in. ; inner rather broader, tips membranous ; style and stigmas short. 

 Seeds JL. in. long, including the long white, tails. 



15. J. leucomelas, Royle ex Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 320 ; 

 stem filiform naked, leaves 1-2 filiform very short, cyme a 3-3-fld. white 

 head, bracts brown lower usually produced, sepals line ir-oblo rig obtuse 

 membranous, anthers very long exserted, capsule ovoid-oblong shortly 

 exserted, seeds long-tailed'. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jaiirb. vi. 211; xii. 

 391. J. Thomsoni, Buchen. in Bot. Zeit. xxv. (1867) 148 ; in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. xii. 390. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 

 12-16,000 ft. DISTRIB. Mongolia. 



Stems tufted, 2-6 in., not stoloniferous, hollow. Leaves 1-2-tubular. Cyme 

 solitary j upper bracts pale, membranous ; sepals subequal, -i ^ in. long ; inner with 

 membranous margins ; anthers rather shorter than the filaments ; style and stigmas 

 short. Capsule 1-celled. Seeds T \j in. long. I cannot distinguish J. Thomsoni 

 except by its dark chesnut colrd. flowers, a very variable character. 



16. J. bracteatus, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. JaJirb. vi. 220 ; xii. 397 ; 

 stem very slender (rarely 1-leaved?), leaves few short filiform, cyme a 

 solitary 3-5-fld. hemispheric head much exceeded by the horizontal filiform 

 lower bracts, flowers pale or dark, sepals oblong-lanceolate membranous 

 obtuse, anthers exserted, style long, capsule included beaked, seeds shortly 

 tailed. 



SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 12,000 ft. ; Garwhal, Duthie ; Sikkim, J. D. H. 



Stems tufted, 6-8 in., fistular ; basal sheaths soft. Leaves subcompressed 

 tubular. Cyme % in. broad, upper bracts rather membranous, brown, equalling the 

 shortly pedicelled flowers ; sepals \ in. long ; anthers linear, as long as the fila- 

 ments. Capsule ovoid, 1-celled. Seeds scobiform, testa shortly produced at each 

 end.- Buchenau places this in the group with a leaf on the stem, this may occur 

 occasionally, but I think that specimen of J". leucanthus may have been mixed with 

 bracteatus. On the other hand the absence or presence of a stem leaf in the species 

 of this section is I fear far from a good one, and ./. bracteatus is perhaps only a 

 form of leucomelas. 



** Cyme a solitary sessile head. Stem with one or more leaves above 

 he middle. Anthers exserted, linear. 



17. J. leucanthus, Royle ex Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 318 ; 

 stem slender, basal sheaths hard brown, leaves filiform, cyme solitary 

 6-10-fld. pale yellow, bracts short brown, sepals oblong-lanceolafce subacute 

 membranous, capsule and long style exserted beaked with the long style, 

 seeds with very short tails. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jakrb. vi. 218 ; 'xii. 

 395. Wall. Cat. 9002 B and 3480 in part. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 11-13,000 ft. 



Stem 6-8 in., tufted, at length hollow. Leaces very slender, uppermost equalling 

 the stem, unitubular, subacute. Cyme %-\ in. diara., bracts ovate-oblong, acute, 

 lowermost equalling the flowers, sometimes produced to 1 in. ; flowers shortly 

 pedicelled j sepals in. long ; anthers half as long as the filaments ; style long, 

 slender, stigmas short. Capsule obo void -oblong, cuspidately beaked, 3-septate. 

 Seeds obliquely ovoid, testa loose shortly produced at each end. Buchenau has a 

 var. alpinOf4\. c. xii. 395), from Jongri in Sikkim (alt. 13,000 ft., Clarke), smaller 

 with brown cymes and smaller flowers. 



18. J. membranaceus, Royle ex Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 



