Juncus.] CLXII. JUNOACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 399 



shorter than the filaments ; style slender, stigmas long. Capsule nearly twice as 

 long as the sepals, tip conical beaked, dark brown, shining. Steds nearly-^ in. long, 

 tails very slender. Very near J. castaneus, of which it may be considered a large 

 more robust form, with more membranous sepals, and filaments longer in proportion 

 to the anthers. Buchenau makes two varieties; genuina, with slender stem and 

 leaves, very long stigmas, and an ovoidly prismatic obtuse mucronate capsule, and 

 var. Schlagentweitil (Sp. Buchen. in Nachr. Koen. Oer. Wiss. Goett. 1869, 255) ; 

 stouter, with leaves cylindric below and subulate above, and more narrowly margined 

 inner sepals. 



21. J. sikkimensis, Hook. f. in HooTc. Ic. PI. ined.\ rootstock very 

 stout creeping, stem stout base clothed with red brown rigid sheaths, leaf 

 solitary or few terete or compressed equalling the stem, cyme of two 

 dark brown unilateral sessile 4-6-fld. heads, lower bracts foliaceous 

 sheathing longer than the heads, sepals glumaceous outer lanceolate 

 finely acuminate, inner linear-oblong obtuse, anthers included much 

 longer than the very short filaments, capsule included, seeds with short 

 stout tails. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen valley, alt. 12-14,000 ft. J. D. H. 



Rootslock as thick as a small quill ; sheaths of stem ^-1 in. long ; stem and 

 channelled leaf solid, soft. Bracts 1-2 in., erect or horizontal, its sheath brown. 

 Flowers sessile ; floral bracts broad, membranous, equalling the flowers; sepals 

 ~ in. long, smooth, shining, very dark brown, inner with membranous tips ; 

 stamens half the length of the sepals, anthers linear, at length twisted. Ovary 

 small ; style very slender, exserted, stigmas long. Capsule hardly exceeding the 

 sepals, obovoid, acute, shortly beaked, dark brown, shining, 3-septate. Seeds Jy in. 

 long, with thick white tails. 



Var. monocephala ; much smaller, very slender, stem filiform, cyme a solitary 

 head with an erect stout filiform lower bracts ^-f in. long, sepals | in. Lachen valley, 

 Sikkim, alt. 12,000 ft. 



ft Coespitose, not stoJoniferous. Stem 'more or less leafy. Flowers 

 small (about \ in. long}. Anthers exserted. 



22. J. concinnus, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 44; in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 

 321 ; stem slender, leaves flat or channelled, cyme branched of 2-7 very 

 pale 6-10-nd. heads, sepals oblong-lanceolate acute membranous, inner 

 rather shorter obtuse, anthers far exserted, much shorter than their fila- 

 ments, capsule ovoid, beak stout exserted, seeds very minute shortly pro- 

 duced at one end. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 215, t. 2 ; xii. 406. J. 

 elegans, jRoyle ex Buchen. in Bot. Zeit. 1867, 146. Juncus, Wall. Cat. 

 9002 B. 



TEMPKRATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 7-13,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. 

 KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Stems tufted on a tuberous rootstock, 4-8 in. high, hollow, sulcate. Leaves few, 

 variable, filiform or involute, many-tubular ; sheath membranous. Cyme with 

 erect or spreading branches; heads f in. diam., at length spherical; lowest bract 

 elongate, slender, or like the floral short and membranous; flowers subsessile, white 

 or yellowish ; sepals in. long ; filament four times as long as the anther ; fctyle 

 slender, stigmas short. Capsule very pale, shining. Seeds exceedingly long minute, 

 brown. Leaves sometimes flat as in .7. Clarkei. 



23. J. khasiensis, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 407 ; very slender, 

 leaves few filiform curved channelled, cyme of usually two (1-3) 3-10-fld. 

 white heads, bracts all shorter than the lanceolate obtuse sepals, 



