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174 pale-green, minutely denticulate, glabrous. Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, few (1–6) large, ⅓–½ in. diam., white. Calyx-segments lanceolate, acute, puberulous. Petals obcordate, much longer than the calyx. Stigma capitate. Capsule 2–3 in. long. rather stout, puberulous; pedicels about twice as long as the leaves. Seeds smooth.—''Monog. Epilob. 287, t. 22, f. 92 a, b; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 168.

3. E. Billardierianum, Ser. in D.C. Prodr. iii. 41.—Stems stout, leafy, ¾–2 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 ¾–1½ in. 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 denticulate. Flowers numerous, small. $1⁄6$–$1⁄5$ in. diam., pink, crowded in the upper axils. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, nearly equalling the petals. Stigma rounded-elavate. Capsules 1–2½ in. long, finely and evenly hoary-pubescent; peduncles shorter or slightly longer than the leaves. Seeds minutely papillose.—''Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 293; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 170. E. tetragonum, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 60; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 80; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 305, not of Linn.

4. E. junceum, Sol. ex Forst. Prodr. n. 516.—Stems erect or ascending from a woody decumbent base, ½–2½ ft. high, leafy, terete, stout or slender, simple or branched, hoary-pubescent or tomentose or nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite or alternate, sessile, often crowded, very variable in size, ½–3 in. long, oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, narrowed at the base, truncate or mucronate or acute at the apex, denticulate or sinuate-toothed, hoary-pubesceut or tomentose or almost villous, sometimes glabrescent. Flowers usually numerous towards the ends of the branches, small, purplish, $1⁄6$–$1⁄5$ in. diam.; peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute. Stigma