Junetis.] CLXii. juncaoe^. (J. D. Hooker.) 397 



diam., outer bracts dark brown, spreading, usually shorter than the sessile flowers ; 

 sepala J-J in. ; inner rather broader, tips membranous ; style and stigmas short. 

 Seed^ j^ in. long, including the long white tails. 



15. J. leucomelas, RoT/le ex Don in Trans. Linn. Soo. xviii. 320 ; 

 stem filiform naked, leaves 1-2 filiform very short, cyme a 3-S-fld. white 

 head, bracts brown lower usually produced, sepals lineir-oblong obtuse 

 membranous, anthers very long exserted, capsule ovoid-oblong shortly 

 exserted, seeds long-tailed. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 211 ; xii. 

 391. J. Thomsoni, Buchen. in Bot. Zeit. xxV. (1867) 148 ; in, Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. xii. 390. 



Wbsteen Himalaya and Westebn Tibet; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 

 12-16,000 ft. — DiSTBiB. Mongolia. 



Stems tufted, 2-6 in., not stoloniferous, hollow. Leaves 1-2-tubalar. Cyme 

 solitary j upper bracts pale, membranous ; sepals subequal, \-\ in. long ; inner with 

 membranous margins ; anthers rather shorter than the filaments ; style and stigmas 

 short. Capsule 1-celled. Seeds -jij in. long. — I cannot distinguish J*. T/iomsoni 

 except by its dark chesuut colrd. flowers, a very variable character. 



16. J. bracteatus, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 220 ; xii. 397 ; 

 stem very sleuder (rarely 1-leaved?), leaves few short filiform, cyme a 

 solitary 3-5-fld. hemispheric head much exceeded by the horizontal filiform 

 lower bracts, flowers pale or dark, sepals oblong-lanceolate membranous 

 obtuse, anthers exserted, style long, capsule included beaked, seeds shortly 

 tailed. 



SCBALPINE HiMAlATA, alt. 12,000 ft. ; Garwhal, Duthie ; Sikkim, J. D. S. 



Stems tufted, 6-8 in., fistular; basal sheaths soft. Leaves subcompressed 

 tubular. Cyme i in. broad, upper bracts rather membranous, brown, equalling the 

 shortly pedioelled flowers ; sepals i in. long ; anthers linear, as long as the fila- 

 ments. Capsule ovoid, 1-celled. Seeds scobiform, testa shortly produced at each 

 end. — Buchenau places this in the group with a leaf on the stem, this may occur 

 occasionally, but I think that specimen of J. leacauthus may have been mixed with 

 bracteattcs. On the other hand the absence or presence of a stem leaf in the species 

 of this section is I fear far from a good one, and .T. bracteatus is perhaps only a 

 form of leucomelas. 



** Cyme a solitary sessile head. Stem with one or more leaves above 

 the middle. Anthers exserted, linear. 



17. J. leucanthus, JJoyfo ex Don in Trans, Linn. Soc. xviii. 318; 

 stem slender, basal sheaths hard brown, leaves filiform, cyme solitary 

 6-10-fid. pale yellow, bracts short brown, sepals oblong-lanceolate subacute 

 membranous, capsule and long style exserted beaked with the long style, 

 seeds with very short tails., Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vi. 218 ; xii. 

 395.— TFaZZ. Oat. 9002 B and 3480 in part. 



Alpine Himalaya j from Kumaon to Sikkim, alt. 11-13,000 ft. 



Stem 6-8 in., tufted, at length hollow. Leaoes very slender, uppermost equalling 

 the stem, unitubular, subacute. Cyme i-J in. diam., bracts ovate-oblong, acute, 

 lowermost equalling the flowers, sometimes produced to 1 in. ; flowers shortly 

 pedicelled ; sepals ^ in. long ; anthers half as long as the filaments ; style long, 

 slender, stigmas short. Capsule obovoid-oblong, cuspidately beaked, 3-septate. 

 Seeds obliquely ovoid, testa loose shortly produced at each end. — Buchenau has a 

 var. aVpina (1. c. xii. 395), from Jongri in Sikkim (alt. 13,000 ft., Clarke), smaller 

 with brown cymes and smaller flowers. 



18. J. membranaceus, Boyle ex Don in Trans. Linn. Soc, xviii. 



