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"Tou O 
304 LI. ONAGRARIE. { Epilobium. 
Flowers small. Krees under 3 lines long and petals not 
twice as lon 
Stems te des 
Pubescent or hoa Leaves mostly alternate and narrow 2. E. junceum. ` 
Gla des e light hoary in the upper portion. Leaves 
y opposite and oblong 3. E glabellum. 
en more or de tetragonous, with raised lines decurrent 
from the lea 4. E. tetragonum. 
e Zeit Dir 3 lines long or more. "Petals : 
Ke deng vi D obtuse and under 1 in. . . + 5. E. Billardierianum. 
Leaves lanceolate or linear, acute, 1 to 2 in. long «uU S. pallidiflorum. 
. E. confertifolium, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 10, and Handb. N. Zeal. 
n. 78. Small, almost glabrous, prostrate and GEN the branches rather 
stout, 1 to 4 in. long, shortly ascending at the tips. Leaves crowded, all 
opposite, from ovate-oblong to linear-oblong, Bt under 4 in. long, rather 
thick and shining, obscurely toothed. Flowers small; in the upper axils, on 
pedicels at first shorter than the leaves, but often much longer when in fruit. 
Calyx-lobes under 2 pm long, and petals vis a little longer. — 
er in. long.— Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 685; Æ. tenuipes, Hook. f. Fl. 
Victoria. Boson "wr at an elevation of 6000 vd es ft., F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Summit of Table mountain, Derwent river, R. Brown ; abundant on the 
summit tof M oun: t Olympus and ra river, Middlesex sind Gunn 
The species is‘also in New Zealand. 
unceum, Forst. in Spreng. Syst. ii. 933. Stems from a hard 
Pie base, erect; terete, hoary-tomentose or softly pubescent, en 
to 2 ft. high a nd rigid, but smaller and slender when starved wes 
opposite, t the upper ones and often nearly all alternate, sessile, Gs 
lon ng more, b 
f p 
pedicels at first shorter than the floral leaves, but lengthening much 
flowering. Capsule slender, vp about 2 in. long.—Hook. f. Fl. Tas. 
i. 118, and Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 80; E canescens, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 
Queensland. Ven of the Condamine, Leichhar 
N. S. Wal rt Jackson t Blue certain Brown ; Hastings, ham Ne 
and Macleay E Bauer in "in Gen to the N. of Bathurst, A. Cunning 
zm oi Ss ardt. 
. Viet “Common in the colony, F. Mueller, Robertson, and others. sides 
asm riri ie en R. Brown ; abundant throughout the colony by W^ 
stures, ete., Pi ER: 
. Australia. In eras plains, F. Mueller, and others 
wW. Australia. From King George’s Sound to Swan and Moore rivers, el» Ba) 
Drummond, n. 253, Preiss, n. 1946, 1947, 1948, - others 
The species is also in New Zealand. It e o be the — Epilo binm of e er? 
Mio inis in imeem occupied by d in the ern he ni here ei 
ing it is readily distinguished from any of the ane? ; although 
Sec doubtful specimens are met with. 
