22 JuNcACE® (Baker). [ Juncus. 
long; segments greenish-brown with a white edge, equal in length, 
all acute, outer lanceolate, inner ovate-lanceolate ; stamens 6; style 
very short; capsule brown, oblong, as long as the perianth ; ’ seeds 
not tailed. Buchen. in Abhand. Naturw. Ver. Brem. iv. 441; Engl. 
Jahrb. xii. 460. 
SoutH AFRICA: prone a Harvey; 377! 
Coast REGION : ings Ezels “i ie ft., Drege, b; Gift 
Berg, Drege, c. Cape ns Ba ay, 
WESTERN REGION: Little me tope hd Tol Ba, 2500-3500 ft., Drege, 
2471a! 
11. J. diaphanus (Buchen. in Abhand. Naturw. Ver. Bre 
442, t. "*s ; annual, densely tufted; leaves all basal, Goa ‘nat, 
acuminate, not septate, 3-4 in. long; stem slender, leafless, terete, 
lax 
reaching a foot long; clusters 4 in. diam., 3-4 in a terminal 
panicle ; flowers 8-15 in a cluster; braets small, ovate ; perianth 
in 
inner oblong, subobtuse ; stamens 6, half as long as the perianth ; 
style very short; capsule oblong, shorter than the perianth ; seeds 
obovate, not tailed. Buchen. in Engl. Jahrb. xii. 460. 
Coast Region: Albany, Bolus, 188. No specimen in Kew Herbarium. 
12, J. seabriusculus (Kunth, Enum. iii. 354); annual, not tufted ; 
leaves all basal, not terete, very slender, not septate, 1-2 in. long ; 
stem very slender, compressed, sulcate, leafless , 6-8 in. gy slightly 
scabrous upwards; cluster of flowers solitary, terminal, 2 41_1 jn, diam.; 
flowers 1-2, rarely 3, in a cluster; bracts ovate, pale, eaiiGss 
perianth { in. long; segments SiramineouG, equal in length, lanceo- 
late, outer acute, inner subobtuse; stamens 6, half as long as the 
perianth ; style as long as the ovary ; capsule oblong, shorter than 
the perianth; seeds obovate, not tailed. Buchen. in Abhand. 
Naturw. Ver. Brem. iv. 444, t.6; Engl. Jahrb. xii. 457. 
Var. 8, subglandulosus surge in Engl. yao xii. heise ; more robust, with 
rite age ar stem, clusters 3, and flowers 5-7 i clus “3 Sr Nea 
Steud. Glum. i i, 303 ; Buchen. in Abhand. Wine. Ver. ‘Be em 459, t. 6. 
Coast Ree Cape D foot of Table Mountain, yuk 11 partly. 
Piqu etharg Ky: ; ; Padang ‘Tonge tes Groene Vallei, under 1000 ft., Drege, 
8795! including Var. 8. 
According to Buchenau, Var. 8 was ebilected by Drége in ee North Div., 
on the Witte Bergen at 5000-6000 ft., but this appears to be an error. 
13. J. parvulus (E. Meyer et Buchen, in Ablignd. Naturw. Ver. 
Brem. iv. 447, t. 6); annual, tufted; leaves all radical, erect, 
setaceous, not septate, 4-1 in. Jon ; stem very slender, leafless, an 
inch long; cluster of flowers solitary, terminal, gs—zs in. diam. ; 
Seat obtuse; stamens 6, shorter than the perianth 5 style as = ies 
as the ovary ; capsule ovoid-cuspiate, nearly as long as the perianth; 
seeds not tailed. Buchen. in Engl. Jahrb. xii. 458. 
