LXII. ONAGRACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) 583 



in long terminal spikes. E. spicatum, Laink. Diet. ii. 373 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 40 ; 

 Wall Cat. 6324. 



Temperate WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 8000-12,000 ft. ; from KASHMIR and Baltis- 

 tan to GURWHAL. DISTRIB. Western Asia, Europe, North America. 



Glabrous or nearly so, except the calyx-tube which is covered with close white 

 tomentnm. Stem 2-4 ft. Leaves often 4-6 by f in., all scattered, nearly sessile, 

 acute, entire or obscurely denticulate. Spike of flowers soon naked, bracts narrow, 

 caducous. Calyx-segments lanceolate, acuminate, purplish, subpetaloid, free to the 

 base. Petals ~f in., rose-purple, obovate, clawed. Style somewhat hairy above the 

 base; stigmas 4, distinct, spreading. Capsule 2|-3|- in., closely pubescent. Seed 

 narrowly obovoid, smooth, coma fulvous. 



2. H. reticulatum, C. B. Clarke ; leaves narrow-lanceolate pubescent 

 beneath reticulating nerves prominent primary nerves diverging at acute angles 

 from the midrib, peduncles distant in the axils of leaves that are not bractiforin 

 nor caducous. 



SIKKIM ; alt. 10,000-14,000 ft, ; Lachoong and Kongra Lama ; J. D. H. 



Stem round, uniformly pubescent, apparently of the height of that of E. angusti- 

 folium. Leaves 4 by | in., all scattered, nearly sessile, minutely denticulate, acute. 

 Calyx-segments broad-lanceolate, acuminate, purplish, subpetaloid, free to the base. 

 Petals -| in., rose-purple, obovate. Style densely hairy above the base; stigmas 

 4, distinct, spreading. Capsule (not ripe) 3 in. on a peduncle 1^ in. This species has 

 leaves somewhat like those of E. angustifolmm but the inflorescence of E. latifolium. 



3. XS. latifolium. Linn, j DC. Prodr. iii. 40 ; leaves oblong narrowed 

 at both ends glabrous or minutely pubescent without reticulating veins, pedun- 

 cles distant in the axils of leaves that are not bractiform nor caducous. E. spe- 

 ciosum, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. t. 69. E. Gerardianum, Wall. Cat. 6326. 



ALPINE WESTERN HIMALAYA; alt. 11,000-14,000 ft. KASHMIR; Jacquemont, C. 

 B. Clarke. SIRMORK ; Gerard, Edgeworth. KUMAON ; Strachey $ Winterbottom. 

 DISTRIB. Dahuria, Altai, Arctic Asia, Europe and America. 



The typical plant is 1 ft. high and glabrous except the calyx-tube; some of the 

 Himalayan examples have the stem pubescent apparently much taller and the leaves 

 minutely pubescent. Leaves l|-3 by J-f in., scattered and opposite, entire or very 

 obscurely denticulate, obtuse rarely somewhat acute. Calyx-segments broad-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, purplish, subpetaloid, free to the base. Petals ^-f in., rose-purple, 

 obovate. Style with a few scattered hairs above the base ; stigmas 4, distinct, spread- 

 ing. Capsule 3 in., closely pubescent. Seeds narrowly obovoid, smooth, coma 

 fulvous. 



SECT. II. Lysimacliion. Floivers regular. Stamens and style erect. 

 * Stigma distinctly 4-cleft with spreading lobes. 



4. E. hirsutum, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 42 ; hairy, middle cauline leaves 

 opposite or alternate sessile obovate-lanceolate narrowed nearly to the base 

 denticulate-serrulate. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 746. E. serratum, Jacq. Journ. 



TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA; alt. 5000-7000 ft. ; from KASHMIR to KUMAON ; 

 JRoyle, Madden, Jacquemont. T. ' Thomson, &c. DISTRIB. Europe, Africa, Asia from 

 the Himalaya northwards and westwards. 



Stem 2-5 ft., round, tiniformly hairy with glandular pubescence, and with scattered 

 long white hairs numerous towards the ends of the branches. Middle cauline leaves 

 usually opposite, often 3 in. or more by -| in., sessile, semi-amplexicaul but not decur- 

 rent as lines down the stem, green and softly pubescent on both surfaces. Sepals 

 green, oblong, acute in the expanded flower, in aestivation mucronate. Petals | in. 

 Stigmas 4, distinct, spreading. Capsule 2-3 in., hairy, lower peduncles ^-1 in. 



