Onagrarie. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 61 
A very common and variable plant, more or less densely pubescent, 4 inches to 2 feet high, woody, decumbent 
and branching at the base. Branches erect or ascending, stout, terete, very leafy, and often in luxuriant specimens 
throwing out short leafy ramuli from the axils of the leaves. Leaves 1-3 inches long, gradually smaller up the stem, 
alternate and opposite, linear-oblong, blunt, obtusely crenate or sinuate-dentate. Peduncles very short, numerous 
amongst the uppermost leaves. Capsules often very long, 2-3 inches, pubescent. lowers small, generally blue- 
purple.— The var. 8 is covered with a shaggy pubescence. 
12. Epilobium pudens, A. Rich.; totum pubescens, caule erecto tereti robusto folioso superne ramoso 
subprolifero, foliis alternis superne minoribus omnibus petiolatis oblongo-ovatis obtusis dentatis 1-2 unc. 
longis, pedunculis axillis superioribus plurimis folio brevioribus, capsulis elongatis pubescentibus, floribus 
mediocribus. A. Rich. Flora. p. 329. t. 36. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Abundant throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, ete. 
One of the most distinct species of the genus in New Zealand, easily recognized amongst the larger kind by the 
long petioles of the usually alternate ovate-oblong blunt toothed leaves, 1-2 inches long. It is closely allied to 
the European E. roseum; and the flowers are white or rose-coloured, larger than in most of the foregoing species, 
but smaller than in the two following. 
13. Epilobium Billardieri, Ser.; puberulum v. glabratum, caule basi lignoso breviter decumbente 
dein stricto erecto parce ramoso (rarius debili), foliis oppositis sessilibus semiamplexicaulibus (rarius brevis- 
sime petiolatis) oblongis obtusis dentatis, pedicellis paucis axillis supremis folio brevioribus rarius longiori- 
bus, capsulis elongatis pubescentibus v. glabratis, floribus magnis. DC. Prodr. v. 3. p. 41. E. rupricaule, 
Banks et Sot. MSS. 
Var. 8; caule debili, foliis linearibus breve petiolatis. 
Has. Mountainous parts of the Northern Island, Colenso, ete.; east coast, Banks and Solander. 
Middle Island, abundant, Zyall. 
I have no authentically-named specimen of E. Billardieri, but many specimens of what I take for it, from 
Tasmania, which quite agree with my New Zealand ones. The large flowers (3-5 inch across, white or pink) are 
the main character by which to distinguish it from Z. tetragonum, and the var. 8 from Æ. glabellum, or from states 
of E. junceum, or from the following, which has usually much narrower and longer leaves. 
14. Epilobium pallidiflorum, Sol. ; puberulum v. glabratum, caule robusto e basi breviter decumbente 
stricto erecto folioso simplici v. ramulis abbreviatis ramoso, foliis oppositis sessilibus semiamplexicaulibus 
anguste lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve subacutis eroso-serratis glabris sublongitudinaliter venosis, pedunculis 
axillis superioribus plurimis subpaniculatis folio multoties brevioribus cinereo-pubescentibus, floribus 
magnis. A. Cunn. Prodr. Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. E. macranthum, Hook. fil. in le. Plant. t. 297. 
Has. Abundant in wet places throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, ete. Fl. November and 
December. — 
The handsomest species in New Zealand, and very common also in Tasmania. It may at once be recognized 
by its great size (2-3 feet), sessile, semi-amplexicaul, opposite, narrow, long (2—4 inches), linear-lanceolate or 
oblong, rather sharp, toothed leaves, and large flowers, which are pink or pale purple, an inch across. The flowers 
vary exceedingly in size, so that, distinct as the large state is, smaller plants do not at first sight appear very 
different from smooth varieties of E. junceum. 
