Epilobsum. | ONAGRACEAE. 605 
AuCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLanps: Meadows and open slopes from sea-level 
to 1000 ft., Hooker, T. Kirk! B.C, Aston! R. M. Laing ! and others. 
For reasons given in my memoir on the Botany of the Subantarctic Islands, I 
Plantarum,” and 
now confine this species to Hooker’s plant figured in the “ Icones 
also described in the ‘‘ Flora Antarctica.” The New Zealand plants formerly referred 
to it are better placed under H. tasmanicuim. 
9 E. tasmanicum Haussk. Monog. Epilob, (1884) 296, t. 20, £. 84.— 
Usually pale-green, but occasionally reddish, forming broad depressed tufts 
2-6in. diam. Stems 2-6 in, long, creeping and rooting at the base, ascend- 
ing above, more or less copiously branched, perfectly glabrous, not bifariously 
pubescent. Leaves spreading, opposite, shortly petiolate, petioles often 
connate at the base, ovate or ovate-oblong, the uppermost often obovate- 
oblong, }-4in. long, rarely more, almost entire or obscurely denticulate, 
somewhat fleshy and frequently shining, midrib scarcely prominent. Flowers 
few, white or pink, erect, #—-jin. long, almost sessile. Calyx-segments 
lanceolate, glabrous; tube short. Stigma clavate. Capsules glabrous, 
erect, 2in. long; peduncles rather shorter than the leaves. Seeds red- 
brown, minutely papillose —T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 171. E. con- 
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EPILOBIUM ELEGANS Petrie 
6 a - slender 2-5 in., with 2 pubescent 
ines, near glabrous below, decumbent and 
loopy at base, then erect. | 
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LEAVES crowded below, cauline more distant, 
connate, linear or narrow lanceolate (3 - 
% in. long), shiny and obscurely toothed, 
be 
thin; medit evident. 
LOWERS: ~ in axils of upper leaves, large, 
shortly pedicelled; petals deeply lobed, 
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about 27 sepals. 
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CAPSULES~ glabrous, reddish-brown ;, in 
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SEEBS - Smooth. 
Mt. Kyeburn, 
Naseby 
spear-rrass flat 
MG. Torlesse 
300~3C000 ft. 
"Glose to E. conrertifoliun" 
