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Epilobium.

1. E. pallidiflorum, Sol. ex A. Cunn. Precur. n. 550.—Stems leafy, terete, 1–3 ft. high, decumbent and rooting at the base and emitting numerous stolons, erect above, simple or branched, glabrous below, finely puberulous above. Leaves 1–4 in. long, opposite or the uppermost alternate, often semiamplexicaul, sessile or nearly so, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, gradually tapering to an acute point, irregularly denticulate or almost entire, glabrous or the margins puberulous. Flowers usually numerous towards the ends of the branches, large, handsome, ¾ in. diam., white or pale-rose. Calyx-lobes half as long as the corolla, lanceolate, acute. Petals obcordate. Stigma oblong-clavate. Capsules 2–4 in. long, finely and densely hoary-pubescent; peduncles shorter than the leaves. Seeds minutely papillose.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 61; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 81; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 305; ''Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 292; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 169. E. macranthum, ''Hook. Ic. Plant.'' t. 297.

2. E. chionanthum, ''Haussk. in Oestr. Bot. Zeitschr.'' xxix. (1879) 149.—Stems slender, 1–2 ft. high, decumbent and stoloniferous at the base, ascending above, simple or rarely branched, terete, glabrous below, usually thinly puberulous above. Leaves all opposite except the floral ones, distant, ¾–1½ in. long, sessile or nearly so, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute,