“174 ' ONAGRARIEZ. {Epilobium. 
pale-green, minutely denticulate, glabrous. Flowers in the axils of 
the upper leaves, few (1-6) large, 4-4in. diam., white. Calyx- 
segments lanceolate, acute, puberulous. Petals obcordate, much 
longer than the calyx. Stigma capitate. Capsule 2—3in. long, 
rather stout, puberulous; pedicels about twice as long as the 
leaves. Seeds smooth.—-Monog. Epilob. 287, t. 22, f. 92 a, b; Kurk,. 
Students’ Fl. 168. 
NorrH anp SourH Istanps, CHarHam IsLanps: Abundant in swampy 
places from the North Cape to Foveaux Strait. Sea-level to 1500ft.. 
November—February. 
A well-marked plant, easily recognised by the slender usually simple stems,. 
distant pale-green and glabrous leaves, large white flowers, and smooth seeds. 
3. BE. Billardierianum, Ser. in D.C. Prodr. ii. 41. — Stems. 
stout, leafy, 3-2ft. high, decumbent and woody at the base and 
giving off numerous stolons, strict and erect above. simple or 
branched, dull-green or reddish, usually with hoary-pubescent lines 
decurrent from the leaves. Leaves 3-14 in. long, variable in shape, 
ovate or ovate-oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse or rarely subacute, 
sessile, lower opposite and often connate at the base, upper 
sometimes alternate, glabrous, finely and closely denticulate. 
Flowers numerous, small, $-1in. diam., pink, crowded in the 
upper axils. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, nearly equalling the 
petals. Stigma rounded-clavate. Capsules 1-24in. long, finelv 
and evenly hoary-pubescent ; peduncles shorter or slightly longer 
than the leaves. Seeds minutely papillose.—Haussk. Monog. Epi- 
lob. 293; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 170. EH. tetragonum, Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 60; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 80; Benth. Fl. Austral. ri. 305, 
not of Linn. 
NorrH anp SoutH IsLAnps, Stewart IsLAND, CHATHAM ISLANDS: Abundant 
throughout, ascending to 20060 ft. November—February. Also in Australia 
and Tasmania. 
The distinctive characters of this species are the robust habit, usually reddish 
stems, broad obtuse leaves, and numerous small pinkish flowers; but some. 
varieties apprcach H. jwncewm very closely. Professor Haussknecht distin- 
guishes two forms: a, simplex, with an unbranched few-flowered stem and 
small rather remote oblong leaves narrowed at the base; and 6, major, which 
has the stem stouter and branched, and the leaves larger, broader, and cordate 
at the base. 
4. BE. junceum, Sol. er Forst. Prodr. n. 516.—Stems erect or 
ascending from a woody decumbent base, 3-23 ft. high, leafy, 
terete, stout or slender, simple or branched, hoary-pubescent 
or tomentose or nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
sessile, often crowded, very variable in size, 4-3in. long, oblong- 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, narrowed at the base, truncate or 
mucronate or acute at the apex, denticulate or sinuate-toothed,. 
hoary-pubescent or tomentose or almost villous, sometimes gla- 
brescent. Flowers usually numerous towards the ends of the 
branches, small, purplish, 2-tin. diam.; peduncles longer or 
shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute. Stigma. 
