400 CLXII. JUNCACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Juncus. 



anthers exserted k shorter than the slender filaments, capsule as long as 

 the sepals narrowly lanceolate prismatic, seeds with slender .tails. 



KHASIA HILLS, Griffith (Kew distrib. 5451), alt. 5-5500 ft., Clarice. 



Stems 4-10 in., tufted, suberect, grooved, leafless above. Leaves shorter than 

 the stem, wiry ; sheath membranous. Heads usually 2, a lateral and terminal, 

 sessile, ^ f in. diam., quite white ; bracts 3-4, ovate, acute, rarely finely acuminate 

 and exceeding the sessile flowers; outer sepals i in. long, keeled, inner rather 

 longer; anthers linear; style slender, exserted, stigmas short. Capsule 1-celled. 

 Seeds -^ in. long. The long narrow capsules distinguish this at once from J. 

 concinnus. 



24. J. nematocaulon, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PL ined. ; stems 

 capillary grooved flexuous, leaves capillary channelled, cymes of 1-3 distant 

 1-3-fld. heads, bracts very short lower rarely capillary, sepals small pale 

 green lanceolate acuminate not half as long as the prismatic acuminate 

 pale capsule, anthers far exserted much shorter than the very slender 

 filaments, style long, stigmas short. 



ASSAM ; on the Naga hills, Jakpho, alt. 9900 ft., Clarke. 



Stems tufted, 1-1 in., 1-leaved above, sometimes with only one terminal flower, 

 and a capillary bract. Leaves few, flexuous ; sheaths very short, membranous. 

 Flowers sessile, floral bracts membranous about as long as the pale sepals which 

 equal the petals and are in. long, 1-nerved. Capsule with the beak ^ in. long, 

 membranous, pale shining, 1-celled. Seeds with a long slender tail at one end and 

 an equally long inflated one at the other. A very singular (annual ?) species, allied 

 to J. concinnus and khasiensis, differing from both in the capsule much longer than 

 the sepals. Seeds not seen. 



Sect. VI. Perennial. Leaves flat or with involute margins, grass-like, 

 strongly nerved. Cymes of several capitate clusters. 



25. J. minimus, Buchen. in Bot. Zeit. 1867, 145; in Engl. Bot. 

 Jalirb. vi. 209 ; xii. 412 ; stem short stout, leaves chiefly basal, cymes of 

 1-2 3-6-fld. dark chesnut sessile heads, lower bract usually foliaceous, 

 sepals lanceolate glumaceous finely acuminate, petals shorter acute, 

 stamens included, capsule exserted turgid obtuse or retuse, seeds very 

 minute, testa forming an oblong very loose sac. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 16-18,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Rootatock short, stout ; stems 2-1 in., densely tufted, naked or 1-leaved, grooved. 

 Leaves shorter than the stem, ^- in. broad, flat, grooved. Cyme with sessile heads 

 ^-^ in. diam. ; flowers subsessile ; sepals % in. long : petals rather broader; anthers 

 small, much shorter than the filaments ; ovary ovoid ; style and stigmas short. 

 Capsule rarely half as long again as the sepals, dark brown, shining. Seeds ^ in. 

 long, testa white, rounded at both ends. Imperfect flowers, or even cymes, occur 

 amongst the basal leaves. 



26. J. Clarkei, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 210; xii. 413; 

 stoloniferous, stem slender many-leaved, leaves longer than the stem soft, 

 fiat, grass-like, cyme of 1-5 globose peduncled 4- many-fid, straw-colrd. 

 heads, lower bract leafy, sepals lanceolate membranous, stamens exserted, 

 capsule much exserted prismatic long-beaked, seeds with long slender 

 tails. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 10-13,000 ft., J. D. H. BHOTAN, Griffith. MUNNI- 

 PORE, on Jakpho, alt. 9900 ft., Clarke. 



Stems 6-10 in., tufted, terete, striate. Leaves -j in. broad, finely acuminate, 

 flaccid ; sheaths membranous. Cyme with heads -| in. diam ; flowers pedicelled j 

 sepals - i in. long, outer lanceolate, inner more oblong ; anthers linear, about i 



