Juncus.] CLXii. JUNCAOB^. (J. D. Hooker.) 395 



mauy-fld. pale yellow globose or hemispheric head, sepals membranous 

 shorter than the long-beaked capsule. 



SiKKiM HlMAtATA, alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. S. ; Clarice. 



Stem as thicl; as packthread. Leaves equalling or exceeding the stem, strongly 

 or faintly (sometimes externally obscurely) septate. Cymes i— | in. diam.; lower 

 bracts produced and filiform or not j flowers sessile ; sepals i in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate and petals almost hyaline; stamens, style and seeds as 

 in J. Grisehachii. — Differs from GrisebacJdi in its small size, slender habit, 

 solitary head and smaller flowers. With difliculty distinguished from J. memhra- 

 naceus, to which this and GrisehacTm are most closely allied. 



** Seeds not tailed. Stamens included. 



10. J. punctorius, Linn. f. Suppl. 208 ; tali, stout, leaves cylindrio 

 or compressed multitubular with a central hollow, cyme terminal ei-ect 

 umbellately compound, heads many and many-fld., sepals oblong-lanceo- 

 late acute, petals broader subacute, stamens 6, capsule equalling the sepals 

 ovoid mucronate 3-oelled, seeds ovoid very minute. Kunth Enum. iii. 

 332 ; Buchen. in Abh. Nat. Verein. Bremen, iv. 424 ; in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 xii. 277 ; Boiss. El. Orient, v. 357. 



SlNDH, Stocks. — DISTRIB. Westwards to Persia, Arabia and N. aud S. Africa. 



Pale green, 2 fc. high; rootstock stout creeping; stems soft often as thick as a 

 goose-quill. Leaves as long as the stem, and nearly as stout, acuminate, irregularly 

 septate. Cyme decompound ; branches divaricate ; bracts short, pungent, floral 

 hyaline acuminate ; flowers brownish, aeasile or shortly pedicelled ; sepals J^--^ in. 

 long, glumaceous ; stamens about i shorter than the repals, filaments rather longer 

 than the anthers; style long. Capsule prismatic, apiculate. Seeds eostate and 

 reticulate. 



11. J. lanapocarpus, Ehr. Oalam. n. 126; stems erect or ascending 

 terete or compressed leafy, leaves linear-subulate unitnbular strongly 

 septate, cymes subumbellately compound with divaricate branches bearing 

 small 2-5-fld. heads of sessile small flowers, stamens 6 much shorter than 

 the lanceolate subacute or obtuse sepals, capsule pyramidal mucronate 

 1-celled, tip exserted, seeds obovoid. Kunth Enum. iii. 326 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 358; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. 376; Beichb. Ic. Fl. 

 Germ.'ix. t. 405. J. articulatus, Linn. Sp. PI. i. 327. 



North West India ; Lahore, Thomson ; Jhelum river, Jacquemont. Himalaya 

 and Western Tibet, alt. 7-14,000 <t. ; very common from Kashmir to Kundwur. — 

 DiSTElB. North temp, regions. 



Rootstock horizontal ; stems densely tufted, i-10 in., rather stout, soft, at length 

 hollow. Leaves terete or compressed, acute. Cyme with stout strict divaricate 

 branches ^-1 in. long, bearing small heads at the forks and tips ; lower bracts leafy, 

 floral ovate-lanceolate, mucronate ; heads i-J in. diam. ; hemispheric; sepals J in. 

 long green or brown, margins membranous ; anthers about equalling the filaments ; 

 style short. Capsule green or brown. Seeds reticulate, testa appressed. 



12. J. prismatocarpus, Br. Prodr. Fl. N. Soil. 259 ; stem erect 

 terete or compressed, leaves tiliform or broader soft compressed or terete 

 1- or many-tubular indistinctly externally distantly septate, cymes irre- 

 gularly compound, heads densely 6-10-fld., sepals subulate or linear- 

 lanceolate, stamens 3 much shorter than the sepals, style very short, 

 capsule prismatic or conical rather longer than the sepals, seeds obovoid or 

 ellipsoid. Kunth Enum. PZ. iii. 33 ; Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jakrh. xii. 311 ; 

 flfiquel, FL Ind. Bat. iii. 246. J. Leschenaultii, /. Gay in La Earpe 



