322 Prof. Don's Account of the 



albi, majusculi, brevissime pedicellati. Bracteœ partiales ovato-lanceo- 

 latae, acmninatce, concavse, scarioso-ineinbranacece, albce, kevissiina?, 

 floribus vix longiores ; communi foliaceâ, lineari, obtusa, canaliculatfi, 

 basi dilatata, iuflorescentiam duplo superante. Sepala lanceolata, acuta, 

 3-neivia (nervis medio approxiinatis parallelis), glumacea ; exteriora 

 3 parùni minora, subconduplicata, carinata. Stamina 6, subccqualia, 

 perianthio tv\p\b longiom: Jilamenta angustè linearia, complanata, alba, 

 basi hand dilatata : antherce lineares, obtusa?, filamentis 6-pl5 breviores : 

 loculis parallelis, omnino connatis. PistiUum staminibus multo brevius : 

 ovarium ovatum, acutum, triquetrum, nitidum, 3-loculare, perianthio 

 brevius, loculis multiovulatis : sli/lus ovarii longitudine : stigmata 3, 

 stylo breviora, obtusa, recurvata, longitudinalitèr papillosa. 



I have great satisfaction in presenting a full account of this very distinct 

 and beautiful species, which has been but very imperfectly characterized by 

 me in the work above-quoted. 



The many-headed stems, acute sepals, and the great length of the filaments 

 will easily distinguish it from all the other species of this series which it very 

 ]jroperly terminates, as it evidently forms the transition to the following section. 



The form and direction of the leaves of the species of this group, the higher 

 degree of development of their perianthium, their scobiform seeds having the 

 membranous testa produced beyond the nucleus at both extremities, establish 

 an intimate relationship between Juncus and Narthecium, as Mr. Brown has 

 long ago suggested, and the passage from the latter genus through Antheri- 

 cum to the Asphodeleœ is rendered very clear. 



** Stamina 3 v. 6. Semina minuta, ohovata. Folia ci/lindrica, intùs septulis 

 interrupta, hinc nodoso-articulata. Inflorescentia termina lis, capitula, pu- 

 ni culat a. 



h. J. acutiflorus. Etirli. 



Habitat in regione transhimalensi ad Purbunni. Ingtis. 11 . (v. s. sp. in Herb, 

 lloyle.) 



The specimen, which was collected by Mr. Inglis in Purbunni, a district 

 situate beyond the Himalayas, differs in no respect from British ones ; and it 



