57. LYTHBACE.E. 307 



indigenous in Persia and some of the adjoining countries. Dr. 

 I. B. Balfour discovered a curious form in Socotra, which he 

 suggests may be the primitive state of the cultivated race*. 



[Dichotomanthes tristanioecarpa, Kurz (in Journ. Bot. 1873, 

 p. 194, t. 133. f. 2), from Tunuan, regarded by him as an ally of 

 Lager sir oemia, appears to belong to the Rosacea?, and so closely 

 resembles some of the species referred to Photinia, Sfranvcesia, 

 and Pourthicea, that we think it will prove a member of this 

 group, but the material is insufficient. The two-seeded, one-celled, 

 almost free carpel is not unknown in the Pomaceae. Kurz 

 found no petals, which we observe in the Kew specimen are 

 obovate or rotundate and entire.] 



58. ONAGRAKIE^. 



1. Epilobium angustifolium, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 347' 

 Maxim. Ind. Fl. PeJc. in Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 471 ; Hance in 

 Journ. Bot. 1883, p. 321 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 p. 582 ; Haussk. Monogr. p. 37. 



Epilobium spicatum, Lam. Encycl. ii. p. 3/3 ; DC. Prodr. iii. p. 40. 

 Chihli: Pohuashan (Bretschneiderl). Herb. Kew. 

 "Widely spread in temperate and arctic Europe, Asia, and 

 North America. 



2. Epilobium. hirsutum, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 347; DC. 

 Proctr. iii. p. 42 ; Franchet, PI. David, p. 134, et in Mem. Soc. 

 Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 219 ; Haussk. Monogr. p. 53. 



Chihli : near Peking (Bushell ! Bret schneider !) ; Shantung : 

 Chefoo (Fauvel ex Franchet) ; Hupeh : Nanto and mountains to 

 the northward (A. Henry !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia; and naturalized 

 in North America. 



The Nanto plant is a very small-flowered variety. 



3. Epilobium japonicum, Haussk. Monogr. Gatt. Fpilob. 

 p. 209. 



Epilobium affine, Maxim. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1869, p. 16, non 

 Bong, ex Haussk. 



* See Proc. Eoy. Soc. Edinb. xi. (1882), p. 512, and ' Botany of Socotra, 

 p. 96, t. 25. 



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