Epilobium. | COMBRETACEZ (Sond.) 507 
size of leaves and size of flower, as any of them do from the European plant. 
Seringe (DC. 1. c.) chiefly relies in distinguishing F. villosum from E. hirsutum, on 
-¥ stigma, which he states to be “somewhat thicker and more convolute” in 
. villosum. 
2. E. flavescens (E. Mey. ! in Herb. Drege); stem erect, simple, 
virgate, terete, puberulous ; leaves (except the 2-3 lowest pairs which 
are opposite and subsessile) alternate, minutely petiolate, rounded at 
base, ovate-oblong or ovato-lanceolate, distantly repando-dentate, puber- 
ulous ; stigma 4-lobed, its lobes oblong, erecto-patent ; pedicels of the 
fruit much longer than the leaves. #. montanum, H. & Z.! 1759 (not 
of Linn.) 
Has. On the Winterberg, Kaffr., E.& 2. Between Zandplaat and Komga, 
and between the Omsamwubo and Omsamcaba, Drege. Water courses in Kreili’s 
country, Mrs. F. W. Barber, 285. Natal, Krauss! 154. (Herb. Sd., D.) 
Stems 1-2 feet high, in all our specimens quite simple. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 
4_3 inch wide, longer than the internodes ; petioles 1-2 lines long. Fruit-pedi 
14 to twice as long as the floral leaf. Flowers a creamy white! Nearly allied to 
E. montanum, but the leaves are more closely placed, and none but the lowest oppo- 
site, and the fruit-stalks are proportionally much longer. 
3. E. tetragonum (Linn.); stem erect, branched, 4-angled, nearly 
glabrous or minutely puberulous ; leaves opposite and alternate, sessile, 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, repando-dentate, glabrous or 
nearly so ; stigma club-shaped, undivided ; pedicels of the fruit equal- 
ling the floral-leaf or longer. DC. Prodr. 3, p. 43. H. Bot.t. 1948. £. 
obscurum, E. & Z.! 1760. E. Dregeanum, E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Moist places at Rietvalley and Doornhoogde, Cape, £. & Z.! Cape, Capt. 
Carmichael! Zwartkops R., Zeyher / Winterveld, 3000f. ; Sternbergspruit ; and 
on the Witberg, 6000-7000f. ; also in Dutoitskloof, Drege / (Herb. Sd., D.) : 
Pubescence, if 
Flowers smaller than in £. jlavescens, purplish-pink, A very variable and widely 
dispersed plant, common to most parts of the temperate zones, north and south. 
Orper LXIL COMBRETACEZ. 
: (By W. Sonper. ) 
lowers regular, perfect or unisexual. Calyx-tube adnate with the 
= ; limb 4-— partic valvate in estivation, rarely persistent. Petals 
(sometimes wanting altogether and often very minute) inserted on the 
summit of the calyx-tube. Stamens inserted within the petals, as 
many, or twice, rarely thrice as many ; the filaments subulate; anthers 
introrse, 2-celled. Ovary inferior, generally crowned by a fleshy or 
woolly disc, unilocular ; ‘ovules definite, 2-4, rarely 5, pendulous from 
the apex of the cavity. Style single; stigma undivided. Fruit drupa- 
ceous, mostly longitudinally 4— 5-winged. Seed mostly solitary, filling 
the cavity of the fruit, exalbuminous ; embryo orthotropous, with 
leafy, spirally twisted, folded, or flat cotyledons. 
‘Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbers. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, entire 
penninerved, petiolate, exstipulate. Flowers often of small size, in spikes, racemes 
or heads, naked or bracteated. The species are numerous in the tropics of both 
