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-clavate. Capsule 14-3 in. long, glabrate or hoary-pubescent or 
tomentose ; peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves. Seeds 
minutely papillose.—-A. Cunn. Precur. n. 551; Raoul, Choiz, 49; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 60; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 80; Benth. Fl. Aus- 
tral. ii. 304; Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 289; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 169. 
An exceedingly variable plant, the numerous forms of which may be 
grouped in the three following varieties :— 
Var. cinereum, Havssk. l.c. 290.—Stems slender, often much branched, 
usually more or less covered with fine appressed greyish-white pubescence, rarely 
glabrate. Leaves small, often crowded, 4-1in. long, linear-lanceolate, entire or 
sparingly denticulate, acute or mucronate, finely ashy-pubescent or glabrate. 
Flowers small. Capsules 13-2in. long, slender, hoary-pubescent.—EK. cinereum, 
A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 330; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 544. E. incanum, virgatum, 
and confertum, 4. Cwnn. l.c. nn. 545, 547, 549. 
Var. hirtigerum, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 60.—Stems tall, strict, erect, 
simple or sparingly branched, usually villous with soft spreading hairs mixed 
with shorter ones. Leaves 1-24in. long, lanceolate, acute or obtuse, coarsely 
-and irregularly denticulate, both surfaces clothed with soft spreading hairs. 
Capsules 2-3 in. long, hoary-pubescent or villous.— EK. hirtigerum, A. Cun. L.c. 
n. 546; Haussk. l.c. 291. 
Var. macrophyllum, Haussk. l.c. 290.—Stems tall, often 3 ft. high, strict, 
erect, simple or sparingly branched, glabrous and often reddish below, finely 
and sparsely pubescent above. Leaves large, 1-3in. long, lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, rather thin and membranous, sinuate-denticulate, glabrous or the 
upper ones thinly puberulous. Capsules 2-3in. long, hoary - pubescent.— 
E. erectum, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxiv. (1902) 390. 
NorrH anp SourH Isitanps: Abundant from the North Cape to Foveaux 
Strait, ascending to 3500!t. October—February. A common Australian 
plant. 
The extreme states of the above varieties have a very distinct appearance, 
and might have been treated as species were they not connected by numerous 
intermediate forms, which make it quite impossible to draw strict lines of de- 
marcation between them. 
5. E. pubens, A. Rich. Fl. Now. Zel. 329, t. 36. — Stems 
4-2 ft. high, slender, simple or branched, decumbent and woody 
at the base, erect above, terete, uniformly clothed with a short 
fine pubescence. Leaves all alternate or the very lowest alone 
opposite, 4-14in. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or rarely 
subacute, narrowed into slender petioles, pubescent on both sur- 
faces, membranous, toothed or repand-denticulate. Flowers in the 
axils of the upper leaves, numerous, small, tin. diam., white or 
pink. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, puberulous. Stigma clavate. 
Capsules 1-2 in. long, hoary-pubescent ; peduncles shorter than the 
leaves. Seeds minutely papillose.—dA. Cunn. Precur. n. 543 ; Raoul, 
‘Choiz, 49; Hook. f. Kl. Nov. Zel. i. 61; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 80; 
Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 295; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 170. 
Norru anp SoutH IsLanps, STEWART ISLAND, CHATHAM ISLANDS: Abundant 
from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to nearly 4000 ft. October— 
January. Also in Australia, according to Professor Haussknecht. 
6. EB. confertifolium, Hook. f. Jc. Plant. t. 685.— Primary 
stems 2-6 in. long, creeping and rooting at the nodes, often forming 
