Tas. 7641, 
EPILOBIUM oscorpatom. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIER. 
Genus Epttosium, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 787.) 
Erinosium (Schizostigma) obcordatum; glabrum, caulibus e rhizomate decum- 
bente ramoso ascendentibus 6-8-joll. longis teretibus, internodiis 
brevibus, foliis pollicaribus oppositis patulis sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis 
orbiculari-ovatis subacutis obscure dentatis basi rotundatis saturate 
viridibus glaucis opacis, floribus magnis 1} poll. expans. in axillis. 
supremis quasi corymbosis, alabastris nutantibus, pedicellis brevibus, 
ovario pruinoso, calycis tubo ultra ovarium producto infundibulari, 
lobis lineari-oblongis obtusis, petalis late saturate roseis profunde 
bifidis patentibus, antheris flavis, stylo longe exserto declinato, stigmate 
4-lobo purpureo lobis revolutis, capsulis 1-]}-pollicaribus linearibus 
robustis obtusis, seminibus minute papillosis. 
E. obecordatum, A. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. vi. (1865) p. 532. Wats. 
in King’s Rep. vol. v. p. 104. Brew. §& Wats. Bot, Calif. vol. i. p. 218. 
Barbey, Epilob. t. 3. Trelease in Second Report Missuuri Bot. Gard, 
p- 83, t. 6. Hausskn. Monogr. Epilob. p. 250, t.15, f. 69. Journ. Hortic, 
Ser. 3, vol. xxvii. t. 179. 
Epilobium obcordatum is decidédly the most attractive 
species of the genus in cultivation, if not in nature; and 
as a rock-garden plant it has few rivals. It is a native of 
the Sierra Nevada of California, at elevations of eight 
thousand to eleven thousand feet, from the Tulare County 
(the Sequoia gigantea region) in lat. 36° N., northward to 
the head waters of the Sacramento River, in 42° N. In 
company with Dr. Gray I found it in fruit in rocky places 
on Mt. Stanford, above Truckee, where the railroad crosses 
the Sierra Nevada, in September, 1877. It also inhabits 
the Hast Humboldt Mts. in Nevada. The capsules are 
described by all authors as clavate, but they are truly 
linear, and rather stout, previous to dehiscence, when the 
valves contract. The Royal Gardens, Kew, received a 
living plant of H. obcordatum in 1894, from H. Selfe 
Leonard, Esq., of Hitherbury, Guildford, which has 
flowered annually in the rock-garden in July. 
Descr.—Quite glabrous. Stems six to eight inches high, 
ascending from a decumbent, branching rootstock, rather 
stout, terete, leafy. Leaves rather longer than the inter- 
Fesruary Ist, 1899, 
