Juncus.] CLXii. jUNOAOEiE. (J. J). Hooker.) 399 



\ shorter than the filaments ; style slender, stigmas long. Capsule nearly twice as 

 long as the sepals, tip conical beaked, dark brown, shining. S'^ds nearly | in. long, 

 tails very slender. — Very near J. caataneus, of which it may be considered a large 

 more robust form, with more membranous sepals, and filaments longer in proportion 

 to the anthers. Buchenau makes two varieties; genuina, with slender stem and 

 leaves, very long stigmas, and an ovoidly prismatic obtuse mucronate capsule, and 

 var. SchlagentweiUi (Sp. Buchen. in Naehr. Eoen. Oer. Wiss. Goett. 1869, 255) ; 

 stouter, with leaves oylindric below and subulate above, and more narrowly margined 

 inner sepals. 



21. J. sikkimensis, Hoolc. f. in Hook. Ic. PI. ined. ; rootstock very- 

 stout creeping, stem stout base clothed with red brown rigid sheaths, leaf 

 solitary, or few terete or compressed equalling the stem, cyme of two 

 dark brown unilateral sessile 4-6-fld. heads, lower bracts foliaceous 

 sheathing longer than the heads, sepals glumaceous outer lanceolate 

 finely acuminate, inner linear-oblong obtuse, anthers included much 

 longer than the very short filaments, capsule included, seeds with short 

 stout tails. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Lachen valley, alt. 12-14,000 ft. J. 2). H. 



Bootsloch as thick as a small quill ; sheaths of stem ^1 in. long j stem and 

 channelled leaf solid, soft. Sracis 1-2 in., erect or horizontal, its sheath brown. 

 Flowers sessile ; floral bracts broad, membranous, equalling the flowers; sepals 

 |-J in. long, smooth, shining, very dark brown, inner with membranous tips ; 

 stamens half the length of the sepals , anthers linear, at length twisted. Ovary 

 small ; style very slender, exserted, stigmas long. Capsule hardly exceeding the 

 sepals, obovoid, acute, shortly beaked, dark brown, shining, 3-septate. Seeds ^ in. 

 long, with thick white tails. 



Var. monocephala ; much smaller, very slender, stem filiform, cyme a solitary 

 head with an erect stout filiform lower bracts J-f in. long, sepals | in. — Lachen valley, 

 Sikkim, alt. 12,000 ft. 



ft Coespitose, not stoloniferous. Stem more or less leafy. Flowers 

 small (about ^ in. long). Anthers eicserted. 



22. J. oonclnnus, Bon Prodr. Fl. Nep. 4!4,;'in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 

 321; stem slender, leaves flat or channelled, cyme branched of 2-7 very 

 pale 6-10-fld. heads, sepals oblong-lanceolate acute membranous, inner 

 rather shorter obtuse, anthers far exserted, much shorter than their fila- 

 ments, capsule ovoid, beak stout exserted, seeds very minute shortly pro- 

 duced at one end. Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrh, vi. 215, t. 2 ; xii. 406. J. 

 elegans, Boyle ex Buchen. in Bot. Zeit. 1867, 146. — Juncus, Wall. Cat. 

 9002 B. 



Tempkeate and Alpine Himalaya, alt. 7-13,000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. 

 Khasia Hills, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Stems tufted on a tuberous rootstock, 4-8 in. high, hollow, sulcate. Leaves few, 

 variable, filiform or involute, many-tubular ; sheath membranous. Cyme with 

 erect or spreading branches; heads |— f in. diam., at length spherical; lowest bract 

 elongate, slender, or like the floral short and membranous; flowers subsessile, white 

 or yellowish ; sepals J in. long ; filament four times as long as the anther ; style 

 slender, stigmas short. Capsule very pale, shining. Seeds exceedingly long minute, 

 brown. — Leaves sometimes flat us in .7. Olarkei. 



23. J. khasiensls, Buchen. in Engl. Bot. Jahrh. xii. 407 ; very slender, 

 leaves few filiform curved channelled, cyme of usually two (1-3) 3-10-fld. 

 white heads, bracts all shorter than the lanceolate obtuse sepals, 



