398 CLXII. JUNCACE^E. (J. T). Hooker.) [Juncus. 



320; stem tall slender 1-3-leaved, leaves filiform acute, cyme many-fid. 

 white exceeded or not by the lower bract, sepals oblong-lanceolate obtuse 

 membranous inner longer, capsule usually far exserted long-beaked, seeds 

 with very long tails. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 397. J. Hoffmeisteri, 

 Klotzsch in Bot. Eeis. Pr. Waldem. 60, t. 98 ; Buclwn. I. c. vi. 220. J. 

 benghalensis, Kunth Enum. iii. 360 ; Buchen. 1. c. vi. 211 ; xii. 400. J. 

 sphenostemon, Buchen. I. c. xii. 401. J. concinnus, in part Herb. Hook. f. 

 & T. Isolepis sp. Wall. Cat. 348 A. 



TEMPEKA.TE and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-13,000 ft., from Kashmir to 

 Sikkim. 



Stems 5-20 in., tufted, stolon iferou?, at length fistular ; basal sheaths mem- 

 branous. Leaves slender, channelled, or flattish above, tubular; sheath long, 

 Huricled. Cyme 8-24-fld. ; lower bracts variable, floral ovate-lanceolate, hyaline ; 

 flowers shortly pedicelled ; sepals nearly in. long ; anthers half as long as the 

 filaments, style and stigmas short. Capsule often half as long again as the sepals, 

 1-celled. Seeds ^ in. long, tails longer than the nucleus. J. sphenostemon 

 appears to me to be only a poor small state of membranaceus, the anthers are not 

 cuneate, but almost exactly linear; its seeds are not ripe. J. benghalensis was 

 founded on a Wallichian specimen of membranaceus with a false locality. 



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Cyme compound of several heads. 



"|" Stoloniferous. Flowers large (J in. long and upwards). Stamens 

 included. 



19. J. sphacelatus, Decne. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 172, t. 172; stem 

 stout terete leafy, leaves involute, cyme of 2-5 clustered or distant and 

 superposed erect dark brown 2-5-fld. heads, lower bract elongate, sepals 

 narrowly lanceolate much longer than the stamens and prismatic beaked 

 capsule, seeds long-tailed. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 225 ; xii. 404. 

 Juncus, Wall. Cat. 9001 in part. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 12-16,000 ft. DISTRIB- 

 Aflghan, Turkestan. 



Stems 8-16 in., tufted, smooth, fistular ; stolons as thick as a crow-quill. Leaves 

 strict, obtuse or acute, unitubular, obscurely septate. Cyme with the heads usually 

 distant, sessile or peduncled ; floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate ; sepals to nearly 

 in. long, thinly glumaceous, tips finely acuminate, of inner hyaline ; anthers 

 included , about equalling the filaments. Capsule dark brown, obtuse, mucronate, 

 3-septate. Seeds i in. long, tails very slender. 



20. J. himalensis, Klotzsch & GarcJce in Bot. Reis. Pr. Waldem. 60, 

 t. 97 ; stem tall stout rigid, leaves filiform or involute, cyme of 2 or more 

 dark brown 3-8- fid. heads, lower bract elongate, outer sepals lanceolate 

 inner linear-oblong with broad membranous margins and tip rather longer 

 than the stamens and the ovoid long-beaked capsule, seeds long-tailed. 

 Buchen. in Engl. Bot Jahrb. vi. 229, t. 3 ; xii. 405. J. scirpoides, Jacquem. 

 mss. J. castaneus, Herb. Ind. Or. Hook.f. ei Thorns. Juncus No. 7. Juncus, 

 Wall. Cat. 9001, in part. 



ALPINE and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 7-14,000 ft. ; from Kashmir and 

 Western Tibet to Bhotan. 



Stems 8-20 in., erect, leafy below, 1-leaved above, hollow. Leaves tubular, 

 channelled above, obscurely septate ; auricles obscure. Cyme irregularly branched; 

 branches sometimes an inch long and spreading ; bracts ^-f in. diam. ; flowers 

 shortly pedicelled, brown ; sepals in. long, glumaceous, lanceolate, acute obtuse or 

 mucronate ; petals more oblong, obtuse, margins broadly scarious ; anthers linear, 



