MACLOSKIE : ONAGRACE^t. 6ll 



EPILOBIUM TETRAGONUM ANTARCTICUM Hook. f. (E. antarcticum O. Ktze.) 

 Stem ascending, mostly from a procumbent base; pubescent at the 



angles. Leaves broader, ovate, and thicker. 

 Fuegia; Patagonia. 



n. E. VALDIVIENSE Haussk. 



7// (30-60 cm.), erect, glabrous below. Rhizome short, fibrilliferous, 

 sending out large globose hypogaeous gemmae. Stems with decurrent, 

 hairy leaf-traces. Leaves (except the uppermost) opposite, not connate 

 at base, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, basally rounded, denticulate, nervous; 

 varying much. Flowers small ; petals pale pink, slightly exceeding the 

 hairy sepals. Capsiiles slender, 2-3 cm. long, hairy. 



Valdivia. 



E. VALDIVIENSE ALBOFFII. 



Leaves larger, 4 cm. by 15 mm., some obtuse. 



Fuegia, at Ushuaia. (Alboff.) 



(E. glabellum Forst. is a New Zealand form ; and E. junceum Sol. is 

 Australasian and N. Zealand; "neither occurs in S. Amer., though S. 

 American plants are sometimes erroneously referred to them." Hauss- 

 knecht.) 



3. GODETIA Spach. 



Herbs or bushes, with large red or white flowers in leafy racemes or 

 spikes. Flowers regular; the floral tube long-cylindrical, with a hairy 

 crown. Stamens 8, unequal ; filaments short ; anthers basifixed, bent out- 

 wards after shedding the pollen. Stigma 4-parted, with short lobes. 



Species 20, in W. Amer., some cultivated for the flowers. 



G. TENELLA Cav. (by O. Ktze. sub (Enotkera, G. cavanillesii Spach.). 



Stem simple, strict. Leaves linear-spatulate. Petals obovate, obtuse, 



violaceous. Style longer than the erect stamens, but much shorter than 



the petals. Stigmas obovate. Capsule 4-angled, tomentose, longer than 



the bract. 



(Chili); Chubut, in mountain meadows near Carren-leofu. 



4. CENOTHERA Spach. (Excluding Onagra Tourn.) 

 Usually herbs, with prostrate or erect stems and alternate, sinuate or 

 pinnatifid leaves. Flowers yellow, axillary or in terminal spikes, opening 



