Epilobium.'] LXII. ONAGRACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) 585 



boscent. Capsule* typically in erect clusters, lowest peduncle usually less than | in. 

 This is one of the best marked forms of Indian Epilobiums and may be a good spe- 

 cies ; it is common in herbaria marked E. montanum var., or". origanifolium var. (by 

 H. f. & T., roseum var.). 



VAR. anagallidifolium, Lamk. (sp.) in Syme Engl. Bot. t. 506 ; stem 4-12 in. gla- 

 brous near the base with hairy lines in the middle uniformly minutely pubescent near 

 the top, leaves small oblong obtuse nearly glabrous beneath, seeds most minutely 

 papillose. West Tibet ; Thomson. Agrees exactly with the figure of Syme : reduced 

 to E. alpinum Linn, ia Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 750 and in Hk.f. Student's Brit. Fl. 145. 

 It differs slightly from E. alpinum by the less elongate seed very obtuse at the 

 summit and the more petioled leaves ; but runs into var. indicum. 



VAR. cylindricum, Don Prodr. (sp.) 222 ; stem glabrescent often with distinct 

 hairy lines, leaves linear-lanceolate on longer petioles very little pubescent, capsules 

 long-peduncled, seeds obovoid most minutely papillose. DC. Prodr. iii. 43 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6328. From Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 6000-10,000 ft. This plant has numerous 

 axillary short branchlets covered with linear-lanceolate leaves and has thus a general 

 resemblance to E. palustre, but the petioles are long and the seeds not elongate. 



7. ZS. Hookeri, C. B. Clarke ; stem without lines uniformly pubescent, 

 middle cauline leaves opposite nearly sessile elliptic-oblong broad or rounded at 

 the base, glabrous beneath except the greatly raised nerves, seeds ellipsoid. 

 Epilobium No. 11, Herb. Ind. Or., H. f. # T. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 3000-6000 ft., common. DISTRIB. Japan. 



Stem 2-3 ft., quite round, usually thick set with leaves. Leaves \l f by ^ in., den- 

 ticulate; nerves much impressed above, elevated and covered with crisped pubescence 

 beneath. Petals in., purple. /SWgwzaclav;ite, elongate. Capsules 2-3 in., scattered, 

 Icwe peduncles often ^ in. Seeds obtuse, not narrowed at the apex, only slightly 

 narrowed at the base, most minutely papillose, coma fulvous. 



8. X*. khasianuxn, C. B. Clarke-, stem without lines uniformly villose, 

 middle cauline leaves opposite subsessile elliptic-oblong villous over both sur- 

 faces, seeds ellipsoid. Epilobium No. 6, Herb. Ind. Or., H.f. $ T. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4500-5500 ft.; T. Lobb, Griffith, H.f. $ T., C. B. Clarke. 



Stem 2-3 ft., quite round. Leaves 1 by J- in., approximate, clothed with tawny 

 hair, nerves impressed. Petals \ in. and upwards. Stigma clavate, very obscurely 

 lobed. Capsules 2-3 in., scattered, little pubescent, lower peduncles |-1 in. Seeds 

 obtuse, not narrowed at the summit, only slightly narrowed at the base, most mi- 

 nutely papillose, coma fulvous. This differs from E. Hookeri in its villous indu- 

 mentum and very large flowers, but may be a form of it. It also in its hairiness and 

 shape of the leaves resembles E. parviflorum var. vestitum; but the stigma in E. 

 khasianum is hardly lobed. 



9. E. palustre, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 43 ; stem without lines glabrous 

 or with scanty sparse pubescence, leaves narrow-oblong rarely elliptic sessile or 

 nearly so glabrous or nearly so, seeds (in the Indian forms) obovoid not nar- 

 rowed upwards. JBoiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 748. 



NORTHERN KASHMIR and Baltistan; alt. 8000-14,000 ft.; T. Thomson, C. B. 

 Clarke. DISTRIB. Northern Asia, Europe and America ; but the Indian three forms 

 all recede from the European type in their abbreviated seeds. 



VAR. typicum\ stem 8-10 in., middle cauline leaves 1-1 j by ^ in., entire or 

 scarcely dentate, capsules 2 in., scattered, lower peduncle often | in., seeds ellipsoid, 

 not at all narrowed at top not greatly narrowed at the base most minutely papillose, 

 coma fulvous. This form agrees closelv with the European type, but the seed is 

 entirely without the beak or production of the testa at the apex. 



VAR. majus ; stem 1-2 ft., middle cauline leaves 2-3 in. often much denticulate 

 sometimes petioled and sometimes broader elliptic when the plant can only be dis- 



