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Stem very slender, tufted, 8 — 10 cm. high, basal sheaths poorly 
developed, chestnut brown. Ihisal leaves very slender, capilliforin 
usually about one half the length of the stem, flexuous, curved ; about 
the middle of the stem 1 — 2 capillary bracts resembling the loaves and 
bearing axillary bulbils. Cyme solitary, 1 — 2 flowered, 4 — 5 mm. in 
diameter. Bracts of the flower equalling the sepals or smaller, some- 
times only half the length, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, brown ; 
bracts of the bulbils 2 — 3 times as long, capillary with a broad base. 
Sepals linear oblong, acute, or subacute, membranous, pale yellow, 3 
mm. long ; anthers i-^rd as long as the Blaments, exserted ; style 
long exserted with short stigmas. Capsule obovoid-oblong, cuspidately 
beaked. Seeds ovoid, scarcely tailed. Bulbils 2 — 3 mm. long, ovoid, 
tipped with 1 — 2 very short capillary leaves. 
Sikkim Himalaya, Changu 13,000 ft.. No. 3502 Smith and without 
definite place, King*s collector ! 
Among Himalayan species appears to come nearest Juncus leucanthus, hnt the 
solitary flower-head contains one or two flowers only and about 1 — 2 cm. below the 
flower appear 1—2 bracts with bulbils. Occasionally tho flower at the apex is roplucod 
by bulbils. I cannot consider it a reduced form of cither of these two species. 
801. Juncus luenibranaceus Koyle 
Chamnago, 12,000 ft.. No. 3642. 
802. Juncus sphacelatus Dene. 
Changu, 12—13,000 ft.. No. 4280. 
803. Juncus liimalensis Klotzsoh & Garcke 
Very common throughout the area, 10 — 14,000 ft., Nos. 3075, 
3531, 8606, 3857. 
804. Junens siUkimensia Hook. f. 
Common on the Chola range, 12 — 14,500 ft.. Nos. 3425, 3851, 
4034, 4100. 
VAR. iiionocepliala. 
Changu, 12 — 13,000 ft.. No. 3615. 
805. Juncus sp, nov. vel forma minima J. sikkimenns Hook. f. 
TAB. mouocep'i.'ilic. 
A slender plant, generally 2 — 3 cm. high, more rarely attaining 10 
cm., densely caespitose but scarcely stoloniferous. Rootstock slender ; 
stem filiform, base clothed with a few loose sheathes, which tend to split 
itriately into fibres. Leaf solitary or few, terete, filiform, acute, slightly 
channelled above, equalling or shorler than the stem inserted near tho 
baoo. Inflorescence of only one flowei te'fmiiiatiiig the stem. Bratts 
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