f 506 ONAGRARIEZ (Harv.) [ Epilobvum. 
. Has. Naturalised from North America. In fields near Bees oes a} 
oS .|. | Fields near Steandal, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe! Cape Flats, J. Sturk! (Herb. D. Sd. &c. 
ya ete aaa dandy Stem 1-4 feet high, in the Cape specimens wales, with long, soft hairs. 
ham Lacey! Flowers pale yellow : the calyx-tube 3-4 inches long. This plant, the “ Hvening 
Sewers ) |) Primrose,” has long been naturalized in Europe, and probably brought by the first 
; Myr] >> settlers to South Africa. In Thunberg’s time it had already become so wild as to 
' be even then mistaken for an indigenous species. 
2. . nocturna (Jacq.? Ic. Rar. t. 455); stem erect, simple or 
branched, pubescent ; cauline leaves lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
tapering at base into a short petiole, the uppermost subsessile, all 
sinuato-denticulate, the lower ones erose, or near the base almost 
runcinato-pinnatifid ; flowers in a terminal, leafy spike ; tube of the 
calyx twice as long as the ovary, or as the segments ; stamens erect ; 
capsules oblong-linear, very bluntly 4-sided or subterete, not obviously 
ribbed. DC. Prodr. 3. p. 47% Qi. erosa, Lehm.! ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 
Ah Ms 1820. Z£. & Zl 4 762. sy 
\ qe « Has. Probably of South American (Chilian ?) origin. -Naturalized in fields and 
i : waste places near Rondebosch, E. § Z.! (Herb. Sd., D.) : 
| Stem 2-3 feet high, simple or with several lateral, virgate branches from the axils 
i de Ih of the upper leaves. Whole plant softly pubescent. ‘Leaves 3-4 inches long, all but 
me ee hake the uppermost much attenuated at base, yariably dentate, either repand, sinuate or 
lune ouch aloe erose, the lowest ones frequently deeply and sharply sinuate, Flowers smaller tha’ 
md uy in @. biennis, of a deeper yellow, changing to reddish in decay. 
YT. Oral 6 
4 IV. EPILOBIUM, L. 
Calyz-tube not produced beyond the ovary ; limb deeply 4-lobed or 
4-parted, deciduous. Petals 4, obovate or obcordate. Stamens 8. Stigma 
clavate or 4-lobed. Capsule linear, 4-sided, 4-celled, 4-valved, loculi- 
cidal. Seeds with a tuft of hairs at the chalaza-end. Hndl. Gen. 6121. 
Herbaceous plants or suffrutices, natives of the temperate zones, chiefly in the 
northern hemisphere. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire or serrulate ; flowers 
axillary, solitary or in terminal spikes, purple or rosy : very rarely yellow. Name 
from em, upon, and AoBos, a pod ; a flower growing on a pod. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
Stigma 4-lobed : 
+ leaves sessile, softly hairy, lanceolate ... pe ... (1) hirsutum, . 
x leaves subpetiolate, ovate-oblong, puberulous ... ... (2) flavescens. 
Stigma undivided ; leaves sessile, lanceolate, subglabrous ... (3) tetragonum. 
1. E, hirsutum (Linn.); stem tall, erect, much branched, terete, softly 
hairy and villous ; leaves opposite and alternate, villous, lanceolate or 
oblongo-lanceolate, sessile or half-clasping, unequally and rather sharply 
serrulate ; stigma deeply 4-lobed, its lobes strongly revolute. DC. Prodr. 
3,p. 42. EH. Bot. t. 838. E. willosum, Thunb. Cap. p. 374. DO. l. ¢. 
Drege! 6851. Zey.! 545. ‘ 
Has. Moist places and by river-banks, Districts of Cape, Uitenhage, and 
Albany, E. § Z.! Worcester, Papye/ Stellenbosch, W. HH. — Dutoitskloof, 
(nv) See Oe and several localities in Caffraria, Drege! Natal, Sander- 
eee Beal’ _ Stem 3-5 feet high, robust, pyramidal, with many lateral branches. Pubescence 
copious, soft, and somewhat hoary, but variable in amount and in the length of the 
hairs. Leaves mostly lanceolate ; the lower ones opposite, broader, and more ob- 
long. _ Flowers bright purple. JI cannot separate this from the European £. hirsu- 
tum ; Cape specimens differ as much among themselves, in hairiness, shape, and 
