602 ONAGRACEAE. , [# ‘prlobiu mM. 
NortH snp SovutH Istanps, CHatHam Istanps: Abundant in swampy places 
from the North Cape to Foveaux Strait. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Novem ber- 
February. 
A well-marked plant, easily recognized by the slender usually simple stems, 
distant pale-green and glabrous leaves, large white flowers, and smooth seeds. 
3. E. Billardierianum Ser. in DC. Prodr. iti (1828) 41.— Stems 
stout, leafy, 3-2 ft. high, decumbent and woody at the base and giving off 
numerous stolons, strict and erect above, simple or branched, dull-green or 
reddish, usually with hoary-pubescent lines decurrent from the leaves. 
Leaves ?-Idin. long, variable in shape, ovate or ovate-oblong to linear- 
oblong, obtuse or rarely subacute, sessile, lower opposite and often connate 
at the base, upper sometimes alternate, glabrous, finely and closely denti- 
culate. Flowers numerous, small, 4-4in. diam., pink, crowded in the 
upper axils. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, nearly equalling the petals. 
Stigma rounded-clavate. Capsules 1-24 in. long, finely and evenly hoary- 
pubescent ; peduncles shorter or slightly longer than the leaves. Seeds 
minutely papillose.—Haussk. Monog. Hpilob. (1884) 293; T. Kirk Students’ 
Fi. (1899) 170 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z,. Fl. (1906) 174. E. tetragonum Hook. 
f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 60; Benth. Fl. Austral. iii (1866) 305 (not of Linn.). 
NortH anp South Isnanps, Stewart Is~anp, Cuatuam Istanps: Abundant 
throughout, ascending to 2000 ft. November-—February. Also in Australia and 
Tasmania. 
The distinctive characters of this species are the robust habit, usually reddish 
stems, broad obtuse leaves, and numerous small pinkish flowers; but some varieties 
approach #. juncewm very closely. Professor Haussknecht distinguishes two forms : 
a, simplex, with an unbranched few-flowered stem and small rather remote oblong 
leaves narrowed at the base; and 6, major, which has the stem stouter and branched, 
and the leaves larger, broader, and cordate at the base. 
4. KE. ereetum Peirie im Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxiv -(1902) 390. — 
Stems tall, stout, terete, 2-5ft. high, strict, erect, simple or sparingly 
branched, glabrescent and often reddish below, finely and sparsely pubescent 
above, marked by decurrent ridges from the margins of the leaves. Leaves 
sessile, 13-3} in. long or even more, linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
opposite at the base, alternate above, tapering gradually to an acute tip, 
closely but irregularly and bluntly toothed along the margins, midrib and 
secondary veins evident, thin and membranous, glabrous or pubescent 
along the margims and principal veins. Inflorescence much branched 
and leafy, many-flowered. Flowers small, pale reddish-purple, 4 in. long. 
Calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, acute, finely pubescent. Capsules long, 
slender, slightly curved, 2-3in. long, tapering upwards into a short style, 
finely and evenly pubescent, sometimes almost hoary; peduncles short, 
seldom more than fin. long. Seeds ovoid, papillose—E. junceum var. 
macrophyllum Haussk. Monog. Epilob. (1884) 290 : Cheesem. Man, N.Z. 
Fl, (1906) 175. Aw tan ‘ Rune Teng M.ve 1YOR. 24, 
_ NortH anD Sourn Istanps: Abundant in marshes from the Northern Waitoa 
River southwards to Cook Strait, and thence to north-west Nelson and northern 
Marlborough, and probably farther south. Ascends to 3500 ft. on Mount Egmont. 
December—February. ~ 73 aS. c 
The largest species of Hpilobium known in New Zealand, Mr. Petrie having 
gathered specimens 6 ft. high, with a stem as thick as the little finger. In the first 
edition of this work T followed Haussknecht in treating it as a variety of H. junceum, 
a view which I am now satisfied is incorrect. 
