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5. EPILOBIUM DRUMMONDII Hauss. 



Long rhizome, with few fibrils, sending out hypogaean gemmae. Lower 

 leaves purplish, broadly sessile, obovate on a terete stem ; upper leaves 

 narrowing, on a stem with elevated lines. Flowers numerous; petals 

 one third longer than calyx. Stigma clavate. Peculiar innovations with 

 large, sessile, pointed leaves nearly truncate at their base. 



(Rocky Mts.) " Possibly the same as in the Falkland Is., confounded 

 by Hooker with E. australe." (Haussknecht.) 



6. E. GLAUCUM Ph. & Hauss. 



Suffruticulose, with long rootstock, often multicipital, and with pur- 

 plish scions; having opposite innovating leaves, remote, thick, reddish, 

 ovate-long, obtuse, broadly sessile, 4 mm. long. Stem erect or ascend- 

 ing, glabrous and glaucous-pruinose, often purplish below, leafy, 30 cm. 

 high, often with erect branches above. 



Leaves glabrous, glaucous, rarely subverticillate, narrowing both ways ; 

 lower leaves oblong, obtuse, subentire; upper leaves narrowing, few- 

 toothed. Flowers erect ; petals oblong-obcordate, emarginate, one third 

 greater than the obcordate, often purplish calyx-segments. Stigma cla- 

 vate, attenuate to the style. Capsules glabrous, even when young. 



(Chili; Valdivia) ; Patagon., Golfo de San Jorge; W. Patagon. 



7. E. LECHLERI Ph. & Hauss. 



Rhizome large, creeping, rooting at the nodes, with aerial stolons. 

 Stem ascending, flexuose, terete, with decurrent lines ; puberous above. 

 Leaves opposite, slightly connected at the broad base, hairy, pointed, 

 toothed, 3-4 cm. by 1.52 cm. Inflorescence\Q\\'g. Flower-buds glabrous. 

 Sepals lanceolate, hairy. Petals pale, larger. Capsttle thick, straight. 

 (Leaves as R. chilense, but not basi-cordate.) 



(Chili) ; Magellan; S. Patagon., by Rio Chico. 



E. LECHLERI ANTARCTICUM. 



More slender, with narrower, oblong-elliptical leaves; and more slender 

 capsules. 



Fuegia, at Orange Harbor. 



