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Epilobium.] clavate. Capsule 1½–3 in. long, glabrate or hoary-pubescent or tomentose; peduncles longer or shorter than the leaves. Seeds minutely papillose.—''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 551; Raoul, Choix, 49; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 60; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 80; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' iii. 304; ''Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 289; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 169.

5. E. pubens, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel.'' 329, t. 36.—Stems ½–2 ft. high, slender, simple or branched, decumbent and woody at the base, erect above, terete, uniformly clothed with a short fine pubescence. Leaves all alternate or the very lowest alone ooposite, ½–1½ in. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or rarely subacute, narrowed into slender petioles, pubescent on both surfaces, membranous, toothed or repand-denticulate. Flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, numerous, small, $1⁄5$–$1⁄4$ in. diam., white or pink. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, puberulous. Stigma clavate. Capsules 1–2 in. long, hoary-pubescent; peduncles shorter than the leaves. Seeds minutely papillose.—''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 513; Raoul, Choix, 49; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 61; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 80; Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 295; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 170.

6. E. confertifolium, ''Hook. f. Ic. Plant,'' t. 685.—Primary stems 2–6 in. long, creeping and rooting at the nodes, often forming