584 LXII. ONA.GRACEJE. (C. B. Clarke. ) \_Epilobium. 



Seeds ellipsoid or obovoid, 2^ times as long as broad, little narrowed at the base, punc- 

 ticulate, not papillose, coma fulvous. 



VAR. sericeum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 6325 (sp.) ; pubescence of the stem and leaves 

 densely white silky (not tomentose). E. tomentosum, Vent. Hort. Cds. t. 90. Dis- 

 trib. the same as that of the typical E. hirsutum ; into which this variety graduates. 



VAR. lestum, Wall. Cat. 6329 (sp.) in part ; middle cauline leaves much smaller 

 often about 1 in. not semi-amplexicaui at the base little pubescent, no white silky 

 hairs on the plant. Kashmir ; Jacquemont. Chumba, alt. 3000 ft. ; C. B. Clarke. 

 Kumaon ; Wallich ; near Almora, alt. 5000 ft. ; Strachey $ Winterbotiom. Jul- 

 luudur, alt. 1000ft; C. B. Clarke. This plant has been from the leaves supposed 

 near E. tetragonum ; but the examples show the stigmas decisively spreading, so that 

 it is either a var. of E. hirsutum or a new species. 



5. IS. parviflorum, Schreb. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 43 ; middle cauline leaves 

 mostly opposite sessile oblong-lanceolate hairy, broadest part of the leaf in its 

 basal third portion. Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 747. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Edgeworth; Simla, T. Thomson. DISTRIB. West Asia, 

 Europe, North Africa. 



Stem 2-3 ft., round, without lines, pubescent and with much crisped white hair. 

 Middle cauline leaves 1^-2 by ^-| in., dentate, pubescent over both surfaces. Sepals 

 green, oblong, acute, in the bud mucronate. Petals usually smaller than those of E. 

 hirsutum but are f in. in the Himalayan plant. Stigmas 4, distinct, spreading but 

 hardly revolute. Capsule 2-3| in., sparingly hairy, lower peduncles ^-1 in. Seeds 

 ellipsoid or obovoid, 2^ times as long as broad, little narrowed at the base, punc- 

 tulate, not papillose, coma fulvous. Seed exactly as that of E. hirsutum ; puuctulate 

 by raised points, but these papillae excessively minute. 



VAB. vestitum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 6327 (sp.) ; stem and leaves with fulvous 

 shaggy hair, the stem itself somewhat glaucous. Nipal ; Wallich. 



** Stigmas combined or stigma clavate. 



t Stem round, the hairs sometimes in lines and the bases of the leaves some- 

 what decurrent in lines, but the stem not clearly quadrangular. 



6. E. roseum, Schreb. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 749 ; stem uniformly hairy 

 or with hairy lines, leaves petioled (shortly in nearly all the Indian forms) from 

 ovate to narrow-lanceolate, seeds obovoid not fusiform nor gradually narrowed 

 at the top. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 5000-11,000 ft.; common. DISTRIB. West Asia and 

 Europe. 



VAR. indicum ; middle cauliue leaves lanceolate or ovate with crisped pubescence on 

 the midrib beneath, lateral nerves slightly raised glabrous or hairy, capsules scattered 

 long-pedicelled, seed punctulate points raised most minutely. Baltistan and Kash- 

 mir to Kumaon, alt. 5000-11,000 ft., common. Stem 2 ft., usually hairy all round, 

 sometimes with four well-marked lines. Middle cauline leaves 12 in. opposite some- 

 times ternate, sometimes glabrous beneath except the midrib, more often with crisped 

 hairs on the primary nerves also; petiole often less than in. but sometimes nearly 

 in. Peduncle of the lower capsules often 1 in. or more. Coma of the seed very white 

 in well-preserved examples, but often discoloured in others. E. Icetum, Wall. Cat. 

 6329, belongs mainly to E. hirsutum. ; but some of it belongs here and some to E. 

 tetragonum. Large quantities of the form of this plant with broad ovate leaves and a 

 petiole of in. or thereabout constitute E. montanum var. himalayense of Indian her- 

 baria: but in all these the style is unmistakably clavate, not at all (or most obscurely) 

 lobed at the summit. 



VAR. Dalhousieanum ; capsules often approximate, the lowest with a very short 

 peduncle, seed rather narrowly ellipsoid prominently papillose. From Kashmir to 

 Sikkim, alt, 6000-9000 ft. ; abundant about Dalhousie. Stem round, uniformly pu- 



