176 ONAGRARIEX. [Epilobium: 
broad matted patches; branches rooting at the base, ascending at 
the tips, terete or obscurely tetragonous, usually bifariously pubes- 
cent but sometimes obscurely so. Leaves opposite, usually close-. 
set, often imbricating, shortly petioled, +4in. long, oblong or ob- 
long-obovate or ovate, obtyse, fleshy, glabrous, entire or remotely 
obscurely denticulate ; petioles broad, almost sheathing, connate at 
the base. Flowers few towards the ends of the branches, almost 
sessile, small, 4in. diam. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute. Petals 
2-lobed to the middle. Stigma clavate. Capsules +in. long, 
strict, perfectly glabrous; peduncles shorter or slightly longer than 
the leaves. Seeds minutely papillose.—Fl. Antarct. 1.10; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 78; Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 295; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 171. 
Var. tasmanicum.—Pale-green, much more slender. Leaves ovate or 
ovate-oblong, on longer petioles, usually more distinctly denticulate.—H. tas- 
manicum, Hawssk.l.c. 296, t. 20, f. 84; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 171. 
SoutH Istanp: Both varieties not uncommon in mountain districts, 
altitude 1500-5500 ft. AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLanps: The typical form. 
only, Hooker, Filhol! Kirk! Chapman! AntiropEs Isuanpd: Kirk ! 
The slender creeping and rooting usually much-branched stems, oblong or 
obovate leaves narrowed into short petioles, the few small flowers, and the 
glabrous short-stalked capsules are the best marks of this species. Reduced 
forms of H. glabeliwm and its allies approach it very closely, but are much less 
prostrate and more hard and woody at the base. Professor Haussknecht’s. 
E. tasmanicum appears to me to be barely separable even as a variety. 
7. H. pictum, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896)-538. 
—Stems few, slender, 8-10in. high, decumbent and sparingly 
branched below, ascending or erect above, terete, finely and evenly 
pubescent, especially towards the tips of the branches. Lower 
leaves opposite, upper alternate, spreading, remote, 4—#in. long, 
linear-oblong to oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, sessile or shortly 
petioled, membranous, often blotched with grey, usually sharply 
and coarsely remotely denticulate. Flowers 2-6 towards the 
tips of the branches, small, pink, }in. diam. Calyx-lobes ovate- 
lanceolate, almost equalling the petals. Stigma narrow-clavate. 
Capsules 1-14 in. long, slender, densely and evenly hoary-pubescent ; 
peduncles short, never exceeding the leaves. Seeds smooth.— 
EK. haloragifolium, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 177 (not of A. Cunn.). 
SourH Isuanp : Canterbury—Upper Waimakiriri, Kirk! T. F. C.; Craigie- 
burn Mountains, Cockayne! Mount Cook District, T. ¥. C. Otago—Not un- 
common in the mountain-valleys of the interior, Petrie! 1000-3000 ft. 
December—February. 
Professor Haussknecht has suggested that this may be identical with Cun- 
ningham’s H. haloragifolium (Precur. n. 552), an obscure plant gathered near 
the Waikare River, Bay of Islands, and this view has been adopted by Kirk in 
the ‘‘ Students’ Flora.’’ But Cunningham’s original description is so short and 
incomplete that it might stand for several species, and LH. pictwm has not yet 
been found in any locality in the North Island. Hooker referred H. haloragi- 
foliwm to EH. alsinoides, a plant not uncommon at the Bay of Islands, and it 
appears to me that this reduction is much more likely to prove correct. 
