(182 ONAGRARIBE. [Epilobiwm. 
SoutH Is~tanp: Nelson—Wairau Mountains, Travers, T.F'.C.; Mount 
Captain, Kirk! ‘Mount Percival, 7’. F.C. Marlborough—Upper Awatere,. 
Monro, Sinclair! Otago—Kurow Mountains, Buchanan! Petrie! Alti- 
tudinal range 3000-6000 ft. 
A remarkably distinct species, in its ordinary state quite unlike any other. 
Its nearest ally is H. brevipes, which is a much larger and more erect plant, 
‘with shorter elliptic leaves, smaller and more numerous flowers, and much 
shorter fruiting peduncles. 
20. E. brevipes, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 8328.—Stout, smooth, 
‘glossy, reddish-purple. Stems many from a woody rhizome, 
6-15 in. high, prostrate or straggling, branched, ascending above, 
Pee glabrous, densely leafy. Leaves all opposite, spreading, 
3 lin. long, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or sub- 
acute, gradually narrowed into a ratber long petiole, coriaceous 
and shining, usually reddish, remotely denticulate. Flowers rather 
numerous, in the axils of the upper leaves, sessile, +4 in. diam., 
white or rose. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, almost equalling the 
petals. Stigma clavate. Capsules 3-1} in. long, slender, glabrous, 
exceeding the leaves; peduncles very short, hardly elongating in 
fruit. Seeds minutely reticulate-—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 78; Haussk. 
Monog. Epilob. 307, t. 21, f. 89; Barbey, Gen. Hpilob. t. 19; Kark, 
Students’ Fl. 176. 
SoutH Isnanp: Marlborough — Upper Awatere, Monro, Kirk! Taylor's 
Pass, Spencer; Mount Fyffe, Cockayne! Kaikoura Mountains, MeDonalid. 
Nelson—Hanmer Plains, H. J. Matthews! Gorge of the Conway, Cuckayne ! 
Canterbury — Mount Torlesse, Enys and Kirk! Cockayne! Altitudinal range 
1000-3500 ft. December—February. 
21. BE. vernicosum, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 
535.—Stems numerous from a woody rootstock, 4-8in. high, de- 
‘cumbent or prostrate at the base, erect or ascending above, terete, 
bifariously pubescent. Leaves usually crowded, opposite or the 
uppermost alternate, +—# in. long, linear-oblong to oblong or oblong- 
ovate, obtuse or subacute, shortly petiolate, coriaceous, very glossy, 
usually reddish. obscurely and remotely sinuate - denticulate. 
Flowers op 5 towards the tips of the branches, almost sessile, very 
large, 1-2 in. diain., pale-rose. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, much 
shorter than the broad bilobed petals. Stigma shortly and obliquely 
clavate. Capsules (not quite mature) about lin. long, perfectly 
glabrous; peduncles apparently short. Seeds smooth (?)— Kirk, 
Students’ Fl 176. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur Plateau and adjacent mountains, 
altitude 3000-5000 ft., 7. F. C., Gibbs! Raglan Mountains and Wairau Gorge, 
T. F.C. Otago— Arrowtown, Petrie! 
The shining leaves and large rose-coloured flowers, which are produced in 
great abundance, make this a very charming plant. The flowers are larger than 
those of any other New Zealand species except EH. pallidiflorum. 
22. BE. pycnostachyum, Hawssk. in Oestr. Bot. Zevtschr. ae 
(1879) 150.—Stems numerous from the top of a woody prostrate 
