608 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: BOTANY. 



2. EPILOBIUM AUSTRALE Poepp. & Hauss. 



Rhizome long, creeping, stoloniferous. Lower leaves opposite, dilated 

 at base, crowded, obtusely lanceolate. Stem arcuate, ascending at base, 

 with dead leaves, simple, 10-30 cm. high, terete below, above having 

 decurrent leaf-traces ; glabrescent below, with sparse, appressed hair above. 

 Leaves thickish, sessile, crowded upwards, ovate, obtuse, glabrous, 2-3 

 cm. by 8-14 mm.; the young hairy on nerves and margins. Lower 

 leaves ovate, entire, obtuse ; intermediate leaves with small teeth. Flower- 

 buds purplish. Flowers 5 mm. long; petals pale, rather exceeding the 

 calyx. Stigma narrow, clavate. Capsules purplish, becoming 5 cm. long, 

 smooth. 



Fuegia, Ushuaia; Orange Harbor; Falklands; Magellan (Dusen), "in 

 steppes especially by water-pools." 



3. E. C/ESIUM Hauss. 



Herb, with creeping rhizome and stolons. Stem ascending-erect, sub- 

 simple, few-leaved, cylindrical, obscurely marked by decurrent lines, pubes- 

 cent upwards. Leaves glaucous, all sessile, ovate-oblong, the lower 

 with entire or denticulate margin, 25 mm. long. Buds ovoid, obtuse, 

 slightly drooping. Sepals ovate-lanceolate. Petals pink, slightly exceed- 

 ing the calyx. Capsule rather glabrous, 6 cm. long with short hairs. 

 Seeds attenuate both ways. 



(Near E. andicum, from which it differs by the glaucous, shorter and 

 broader leaves, smaller flowers and shorter capsules.) 



(Chili) ; Patagon., Chubut, in swamps by streams. 



4. E. DENSIFOLIUM Hauss. 



Stems short, 10 cm. high, simple, few-flowered, glandular-hairy. 

 Rhizome large, woody. Leaves opposite, except above, sessile, oblong- 

 lanceolate, basicuneate, pubescent on both surfaces, i-2-finely toothed 

 on each side, 1015 mm - l n g- Buds ovoid, acute. Flowers solitary 

 or few. Sepals lanceolate, apiculate, smooth. Petals purple, exceed- 

 ing the calyx. Capsules 3 cm. long, when young ashy pubescent, at 

 length covered by spreading hairs. Seeds oblong-obovoid, basi-attenu- 

 ate, papillose. 



(Chili.) 



