396 CLXii. jUNCACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [/uncus. 



Monogr. Jimc. 137, 139 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 836 ; Thm. Enum. 840. J. Wal- 

 lichianus. La Harpe I. o. 139 ; Kunth I. c. 338. J. indicus, Boyle ex Don 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 323; Wall. Gat. 8999. J. monticola, Sieud. 

 Si/n. PI. Glum. ii. 301. Rostkovia ensiformis, Serb. Sam. — Juncus, 

 Wall. Gat. 9000. 



Plains of BEKGiL and the Panjabj ascending tlie Himalaya to 10,000 ft. The 

 Khasia Hills, and Decoan Ghats; Bttema ; Ceilon. — Disteib. Eastern Asia, 

 Australia, 



Very variable, CEespitose, rootstock very short. Stents 18-24 in., sometimes 

 decumbent and rooting at the nodes, leafy, not septate. Leaues 2-10 by yj— J in., 

 always shorter than the stem, acute. Cymes erect, branches erect or spreading ; 

 lower bract leafy, erect, shorter than the cyme ; floral hyaline, lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate ; heads hemispheric ; flowers green or brown, sessile ; sepals J-i in. long, 

 glumaceous; stamens very short, anthers oblong; style very short, stigmas long. 

 Capsule usually much exceeding the perianth. Seeds very minute, apiculate, testa 

 appressed, reticulate. — The commonest rush in wet meadows in Sikkim. 



Var. sinensis; very slender, flaccid, prostrate and creeping, leaves filiform 

 unitnbular, cymes depauperate, heads few-fld. J. sinensis, /. Qay in La Harpe 

 Monogr. jane. 137; Kunth Enum. iii. 336; Buchen. I. a. vi. 203 ; xii. 313. J. in- 

 dicus, var. nanus, Soi/le III. PI. Himal. 137. J. unibracteatus, Griff. Notul. 

 iii. 232. — Bengal, Nepal, and the Khasia hills, in very wet places. 



13. J. leptospermus, Buchen,. in. Engl. Bat. Jahrb. vi. 208 ; xii. 

 339 ; stems tall, leaves oylindric unitubular, cymes decompound erect, 

 heads crowded sub 5-fld., sepals subulate lanceolate shorter than the 

 narrow lanceolate beaked prismatic capsule, stamens 3 much shorter than 

 the sepals, seeds linear-oblong. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 4-50C0 ft., Griffith, Clarke. 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a crow-quill, terete or subterete, smooth, leafy above, 

 at length ilstular. Leaves shorter than the stem, septate, acuminate. Cyme 

 branches erect, stiff; lower bract leafy, floral hyaline, awned ; flowers reddish, 

 prismatic ; sepals ^-i in. long, very narrow, rigid, acuminate, margins narrowly 

 membranous ; filaments rather longer than the anthers. Capsule 1-celled. Seeds 

 fusiform, pointed at one end, testa close. — A taller plant than J. prismatocarpus, 

 less leafy, with a much shorter cyme the branches of which are more erect, and 

 with narrower seeds. 



Sect. V. Leaves narrow, channelled, terete or filiform, 1- many-tubular, 

 septa very indistinct or 0. Cymes consisting of solitary or a few globose 

 or subglobose heads ; flowers usually large, white yellowish or chesnut- 

 brown. 8tam,ens 6, Seeds scobiform or tailed at each end. 



* Cyme a solitary sessile head. Leaves solitary or few, all at or near 

 the base of the stem. Anthers included, or exserted. 



14. J. trig-lumis, Linn. Sp. PI. 328 ; stem slender stife naked, leaves 

 short subulate, cyme terminal 3-4-fld, dark brown, bracts short, sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate acute glumaceous, stamens included, filaments equalling 

 or longer than the small anthers, capsule exserted obtuse or muoronate, 

 seeds with long tails, Kunth Enum. iii, 358 ; Buchen. in Engl. Bat. 

 Jahrb. vi. 213 ; xii, 388 ; Boias. Fl. Orient, v. 355 ; Beichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 ix. t. 392. 



Alpine Himalaya and Westeen Tibet, alt. 12-15,000 ft., from Kashmir to 

 Sikkim. — Disteib. Alpine and Arctic regions of the N. hemisphere. 



Stems 2-6 in., tufted, not stoloniferous. Leaves stitT, 2-tubular, Cymei ^-| in. 



