586 Lxii. ONAGEACEiE. (C. B. Cliirke.) \_E^ilohium. 



tinguished from E. roseum var. indioum by its greater glabrousness and obtuser 

 leaves. 



Vae. minimtim ; stem 3-4 in. ■witb 1-2 capsules, flowers and leaves very small. 

 ■ — This in general appearance coincides ■with £!. alpmum, Linn, but the seeds are 

 broadly obovoid not at all elongate upwards. 



10. E. ori^anifoliuiu, Lnmk. Diet. ii. 376 ; middle cauline leaves 

 opposite sessile or very shortly petioled ovate or ovate-oblong, seeds elongate 

 narrow obovoid somewhat narrowed at the top. DC. Prodr. iii. 41 ; Soiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 750. 



Alpine Himalaya, alt. 9000-14,000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Sikkim. — Disteib. 

 Northern cool temperate and Arctic zone. 



Greatly varying in the size of stem, leaves and flowers. Siem usually 8 in., some- 

 times 2 ft., usually with 2 hairy lines, sometimes exactly terete and uniformly pubes- 

 cent. Middle cauline leaves usually 1 in., sessile, ovate, pubescent only on the 

 somewhat raised nerves beneath ; but the leaves are sometimes petioled, nearly 3 in., 

 pubescent, sometimes J in. sessile glabrous. Flowers usually few, approximated 

 towards the ends of the branches. Petals usually less than J in. ; in the var. E. Ba- 

 lansie Boiss, (collected by J. D. H. also in Sikkim) the petals exceed f in. Capsule 

 lJ-3 in., peduncle also variable in length. Seed minutely puncticulate, coma 

 fulvous. 



Vae. villosum ; stem villous, leaves f-1 in. villous over both surfaces sessile ovate. 

 —Sikkim, alt. 10,000-12,000 ft. ; Latong, J. D. H. Epilobium No. 7, Berb. Ind. Or. 

 H. f. ^ T. — Sterns 4—8 in., little divided. Leaves acute, nearly all opposite. Flowers 

 few, approximated, not large. Stigma clavate. CapsuU half-ripe, seeds not seen. — A 

 remarkable plant. The lowest leaves are small thick obovate rounded glabrous, 

 greatly resembling the similar leaves in E. origanifolium. ' *' 



11. E. alpinum, lann. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 41 ; stems weak somewhat pu- 

 bescent, middle cauline leaves opposite small subsessile narrow-elliptic glBbrous 

 or pubescent on the nerves beneath, flowers few towards the end of the 

 branches, Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 750. 



Sikkim; alt. 12,000 ft.; Lachen, J. D. U.\ Jongri, C.B. Clarke. 



Stems 2-10 in., slender, scarcely divided. Middle cauline leaves ^1 in., denticu- 

 late obscurely or prominently, scarcely acute. Capsule \\ in., peduncle \-\ in. Seeds 

 minutely papillose, narrowly ellipsoid, little narrowed at the summit ; coma silky, 

 white. — This is perhaps E. al/pinum of Boissier but is not the ordinary European plant 

 ■which has a beaked seed as described in Hk. f. Student's British Flora, p. 145 ; the 

 European examples also have a fulvous coma. 



tt Stem dearly quadrangular. 



12. E. tetra^onum, Zinn. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 43 ; middle cauline leaves 

 mostly opposite oblong or narrow-elliptic glabrous but with crisped hair ou the 

 raised nerves beneath usually denticulate-serrulate rarely acute. Baiss. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 748. E. brevifolium, Don Prodr. 222. 



Sikkim, alt. 5000-12,000 ft., very common. Khasia Mts., alt. 4000-6500 ft., 

 common. — Disteib. Cold and cool temperate zones of both hemispheres, and at 

 temperate elevations on mountains in the warmer zones. 



Stems 1-3 ft., vrith crisped pubescence on the four angles. Middle cauline-fcai;«.s 

 opposite, ^-2 in., usually sessile, but in some Indian examples distinctlypetioled, nerves 

 beneath raised often very prominently, above much impressed. Flowers rose or pur- 

 ple, rather small. Capsule 1^-2 in. ; peduncle \-^ in. Seeds narrowly elliptic, not 

 narrowed at the summit, very little narrowed at the base, minutely papillose, 

 coma fulvous. 



