Epilobium.] XXX. ONAGEAEIBAB. 177 



25. E. haloragifolium, A. Cunn., Precurs. 553. SufEruticose. Stems 



few, decumbent at the base, ascending or erect, simple or branched above, finely 



pubescent. Leaves all opposite or the upper alternate, distant, membranous, 



sessile or very shortly petioled, narrow-oblong or ovate-oblong, narrowed at base 



or almost cuneate, with few short acute teeth, obtuse, J^in.— Jin. long, Jin.— Jin. 



broad, often blotched with red or grey. Flowers 1 -6, in the upper axils, small, 



erect, white or pink. Calyx-lobes ovate, apiculate, rather shorter than the 



petals. Stigma narrow-clavate. Peduncles always shorter than the leaves. 



Capsule lin.— liin. long, densely pubescent. — E. pictum, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I. 



xxviii. (1895) 538. 



NORTH Island : Bay of Islands, A. Cunn. SOUTH Island : Upper Waimakariri, T. Z. 

 Hokitika, Tipler ! Valleys of Central Otago, Mount St. Bathan's, &c., Petrie I Sea-level to 

 3,000ft. 



Some of my specimens have a single terminal flower, thus exactly agreeing with Cunning- 

 ham's description. Mr. Petrie's fine specimens have 3-6 flowers on the strongest shoots, and 

 solitary flowers on the branches. I agree with Professor Haussknecht's identification of E. pictum 

 with E. haloragifolium. 



26. E. melanocaulon, Hook., Ic. Pi. t. 813. Rootstock woody, much 

 branched from the base. Stems numerous, slender, simple, strict, erect or 

 ascending, black, shining, wiry, bi- or quadrifariously pubescent. Leaves 

 opposite or alternate, jin.— fin. long, sessile or subsessile, rigid, linear-oblong, 

 deeply obtusely toothed or almost lobed, obtuse, truncate or apiculate at the 

 apex, cuneate at base, glabrous. Flowers small, erect, sessile, white or pink. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, shorter than the corolla. Stigma clavate, 

 rounded. Capsule sessile or subsessile, fin.— fin. long, glabrous. Seeds papil- 

 lose.— Hook, f ., Fl. N.Z. i. 60 ; Handbk. 80 ; Haussk., Monog. 307. 



NORTH Island ; Buahine Bange and mountains about Lake Taupo, Colenso, Herb. Kew. 

 (Haussk.). SOUTH Island : common in mountain districts from Nelson to Southland. 1,000ft. to 

 3,500ft. Deo. to Feb. 



Easily distinguished by the numerous slender simple black stems and deeply-toothed rigid 

 erect leaves. North Island specimens have only been collected by Colenso. 



27. E. polyclonum, Haussk. in Oestr. Bot. Zeitsch. xxix. (1879) 150. 

 Suffruticose, strict, erect or decumbent at the base, very slender, branched, 

 6in.— lOin. high, terete, black or dark-purple, glabrous or faintly bifariously 

 pubescent. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, rigid, distant, sessile or 

 subsessile, ovate-oblong, iin.— iin. long, cuneate at base, obtuse or shortly acute. 

 Flowers in the upper axils, very small. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-acute, equal- 

 ling the corolla. Stigma clavate. Fruiting-peduncle slender, longer or shorter 

 than the leaves. Capsule very slender, less than lin. long, shortly narrowed 

 below the apex. Seeds papillose. — Monog. Epilob. 308, t. xx. f. 87. 



SOUTH Island : Canterbury, Travers ! Otago, Hector and Buchanan in Herb. Kew ; Petrie 1 

 5,000ft. to 6,000ft. 



Very near to E. melanocaulon, of which it should perhaps be considered a variety. 



. 28. E.ro stratum, Cheesm. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxviii. (1895) 534. Suf- 

 fruticose, branched from the base. Stems 2in.— 5in. high, wiry, simple or 

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