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LIV. ONAGRARIEjE. 
[Epilobium. 
at first shorter than the floral leaves, bat lengthening; much after flowering. 
Capsule slender, usually about 2in. long. — Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 118, and Handb. 
N. Zeal. FI. 80 ; E. canescens, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 44 ; Nees in PI. Preiss. i. 15J. 
Hub.: Plains of the Condamine, L •ichh irdt : co nraon in southern localities, on damp land. 
2. E. Billardierianum (after M. Labillardiere), Ser. in DC. Prod. iii. 41 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 305. Glabrous or minutely hoary-pubescent, especially in 
the upper portion. Stems usually nearly simple, | to Hft. high, terete or rarely 
with short faint decurrent lines from some of the leaves. Leaves sessile or 
nearly so, mostly opposite, except the floral oues, from narrow ovate-oblong to 
linear-oblong, obtuse, more or less toothed, rarely exceeding lin. Pedicels 
shorter than the leaves or the upper ones exceeding them when in fruit. Calyx- 
lobes about 3 lines long or rather more, the petals usually twice as long. Capsule 
elongited. — Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 117 t. 21, and Handb. N. Zeal. FI. 81. 
Hab.: On damp land in southern localities. 
3. JUSSIZEA, Linn. 
(After the celebrated botanical family of Jussieu.) 
Calyx-tube not produced above the ovary ; lobes 4, 5 or rarely 6, persistent. 
Petals as many as calyx-lobes. Stamens twice as many as calyx-lobes. Ovary 
with as many cells as calyx-lobes and numerous ovules in each cell ; style short 
or long or scarcely any ; stigma more or less lobed. Capsule terete or with as 
many or twice as many ribs or angles as calyx-lobes, opening septicidally in 
valves separating from the persistent ribs or irregularly between the ribs. Seeds 
usually numerous ; testa thin or crustaceous, or thick and spongy. — Herbs, some- 
times aquatic, or rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or very rarely serrate. 
Flowers yellow or white, solitary in the axils ; petals usually broad. 
The genu? is chiefly American, both tropical and extratropical, a few species also spread over 
tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. The Australian species are both of them common in 
the New as well as the Old World. — Benth. 
Creeping or floating plant. Flowers usually 5-merous, on pedicels longer 
than the ovary 1 . J. repens. 
Erect plant. Flowers mostly 4-merous, on very short pedicels or almost 
sessile 2. J. suffruticosa. 
1. J. repens (creeping), Linn. Spec. PI. 555, and Mant. 381 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 306. Herbaceous, creeping in mud or floating in water, often sustain- 
ing itself by little vesicles round the insertion of the leaves, glabrous or more or 
less hirsute, with soft spreading hairs. Leaves from obovate or obovate-oblong, 
to narrow cuneate-oblong or almost lanceolate, acute or rarely obtuse, the upper 
ones usually 1 to 2in. long, those about the short creeping branches often very 
small. Peduncles usually longer than the ovary and fruit, with 2 small bracteoles 
at the summit. Calyx-tube or ovary cylindrical, rather slender, under ^-in. long 
when in flower ; lobes usually 5, lanceolate, acute, 3 to 4 lines long. Petals 
broadly obovate, from a little longer to twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Capsule 
lengthening to about fin., and about lb line thick, smooth and shining but 
usually sprinkled with a few hairs, the 5 primary ribs prominent, the secondary 
ones less so. — DC. Prod. iii. 54 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 300 t. Suppl. 40 ; 
J. Swartziana, DC. l.c. 
Hab.: Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; common in lagoons about Moreton Bay, C. Stuart. 
The late Baron von Mueller was of opinion that J. repens of the FI. Austr. iii. 306 was rather 
J. diffusa, Forst., under which it is given in his Census of Austr. Plants. The difference 
between the two forms or species is principally in the petals of J. repens being white except at 
the base, which is slightly yellow, while the petals of J. diffusa are all yellow (which is the 
case with all the plants in Queensland waters which I have seen). I leave the plant as given 
by Mr. Bentham in the FI. Austr., not considering the distinction of sufficient importance to 
make a change, particularly as I have not met with the two plants in Queensland, and to 
distinguish the colour the flowers must be seen in a liye state, 
