73 xxix. onagrauie.33. [Epilobium. 
Flowers pale rose-coloured, petals cleft nearly to the middle. Capsules 2-3 
in. long, glabrous. 
Mountainous districts throughout the islands, in wet places. Banks and Solander, etc. ; 
most abundant in Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, J.D.H. The slender 
creeping habit, uniform, membranous, orbicular, sharply-toothed, opposite leaves, and few 
axillary flowers, well distinguish this species, which is one of the best characterized of the 
genus. It most nearly approaches E. rotund* folium, but differs in all the leaves being 
opposite, and branches creeping. 
4. E. macropus, Rook. Ic. PL t. 812 ; — FI. N. Z. i. 58. Glabrous 
throughout, branching from the base ; branches slender, creeping below, then 
ascending or erect, 4-8 in. long, often purplish-green or blackish. Leaves 
almost all opposite, petioled, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, very obscurely 
toothed, rather thick, -|— | in. long, uniform in size. Flowers few, distant 
from the ends of the branches, almost i in. diam., on slender long peduncles. 
Capsules quite smooth. 
Middle Island : marshy places in the mountains from Nelson to Otago, alt. 2500-5000 
ft. The narrower, uniformly opposite, almost entire leaves, and large flowers distinguish 
this at once from E. rotundifolium ; the less crowded leaves and large flowers from E. con- 
fert folium ; and the habit, and fewer flowers usually distant from the ends of the branches 
from various species of the following sections, especially E. Billardierianum. 
5. E. confertifolium, Hook. f. FI. Antarct. i. p. 10. Small, almost 
glabrous, sparingly branched, prostrate ; branches stout, 1-4 in. long, densely 
leafy, their tops erect or almost wholly erect. Leaves all opposite, i— | in. 
long, oblong linear-oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, shining, 
obscurely toothed, nearly uniform, or the uppermost rather smaller. Flowers 
in the axils of the upper leaves, on rather short peduncles, small, in. diam. 
Capsules glabrous or puberulous. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 685. 
Var. a. Stems short. Leaves crowded, scarcely toothed. Peduncles very short. 
Var. 0. temdpes. Leaves linear-oblong, more conspicuously toothed. Peduncles in fruit 
very slender. — E. tenuipes, II. f. Pl. N. Z. i. 59. 
Mountain swamps, var. a, in the Middle Island ; Canterbury and Otago mountains, 
alt. 3-5000 ft. ; abundant in Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell's Islands. 
Var. 0. Northern Island: head of the Wairarapa valley, Colenso. Also found in the 
Tasmanian alps, and a very similar plant occurs in the Chilian Andes (E. nivale, Meyen). 
A very variable species, differing chiefly in habit from E. Billardierianum. 
6. E. crassum, TIook.f. FI. N. Z. ii. 328. Glabrous, prostrate, creep- 
ing, glossy ; branches short, thick, red, densely leafy, 2-4 in. long. Leaves 
ascending, opposite, f~l} in. long, obovate- or spalhulate-oblong, obtuse, very 
obscurely toothed, narrowed into a broad red petiole, very coriaceous, bright 
and glossy. Flowers few, from towards the ends of the branches. Peduncles 
short and stout, lengthening in fruit. Flowers large, nearly ^ in. across. 
Capsules glabrous, stout, 1^ in. long. 
Middle Island: in alpine localities. Top of Macrae’s Run, alt. 4000 feet, Munro ; 
AVairau mountains, alt. 4-5000 ft., Travers. A very fine species, allied to the following, 
and not readily distinguished except by the more creeping habit, and leaves broadest towards 
the tips, larger flowers, and long pedicels of the capsules. 
7. E. brevipes. Hook. f. FI. N. Z. ii. 328. Glabrous, stout, branching, 
coriaceous, glossy ; branches all prostrate, red, almost woody below, leafy, 
4-6 in. long. Leaves all opposite, spreading, f~l in. long, narrow oblong, 
subacute, minutely remotely toothed, very coriaceous, glossy, the lower red- 
