Hookeriane. N. O. Onagrariee. 
TAB. DCLXXXV. 
EpiLopium conrertiFroLium, Hook. fil. 
Herbaceum glabrum, caule repente radicante ramoso, ramis 
divaricatis decumbentibus teretibus cum lineis duabus oppo 
sitis incanis, foliis oppositis valde approximatis subimbricatis 
breviter petiolatis oblongo-obovatis obtusis subcarnosis gla- 
berrimis remote et obscure dentatis, petiolis margine m- 
canis basi connatis subvaginantibus, pedunculis sessilibus soli- 
tariis axillaribus, floribus erectis, petalis rubris subpurpurels- 
ve ad medium bifidis, ovario glaberrimo, stylo oblique clavate, 
capsula lineari-elongata glaberrima. 
Epilobium confertifolium, Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. 1, p. 10. 
Has. Lord Auckland’s group, and Campbell’s Island: on 
grassy banks, and in moist places, abundant. 
This little plant occupies the place in these islands that the 
E. alpinum, L. does on the European mountains. The two 
species are indeed so very closely allied, that we look in vain 
for further constant characters than the creeping, and rootings 
and much branched stem, the densely crowded, broader and 
more obovate leaves, with almost sheathing petioles, and the 
deeply bifid petals. The more remarkable points of similarity, 
besides the general appearance, are the lines of pubescence 0? 
the stem, the sessile or shortly pedunculated ovaria (which in 
E. alpinum are however often on longer stalks), the deep colour 
of the petals, and the simple clavate stigma, which is here de- 
cidedly oblique and gibbous at the base. Very similar species 
are found on the Andes of Peru, and in Chili.—J. D. H. 
Fig. \. Flower, scarcely expanded. //. 2. Expanded blossom | 
d, : 
f. 3. Petal ;—magnifie 
