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176 broad matted patches; branches rooting at the base, ascending at the tips, terete or obscurely tetragonous, usually bifariously pubescent but sometimes obscurely so. Leaves opposite, usually closeset, often imbricating, shortly petioled, ¼–½ in. long, oblong or oblong-obovate or ovate, obtuse, fleshy, glabrous, entire or remotely obscurely denticulate; petioles broad, almost sheathing, connate at the base. Flowers few towards the ends of the branches, almost sessile, small, $1⁄5$ in. diam. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute. Petals 2-lobed to the middle. Stigma clavate. Capsules ⅓–¾ in. long, strict, perfectly glabrous; peduncles shorter or slightly longer than the leaves. Seeds minutely papillose.—Fl. Antarct. i. 10; Handb N.Z. Fl. 78; ''Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 295; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 171.

7. E. pictum, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxviii. (1896) 538.—Stems few, slender, 8–10 in. high, decumbent and sparingly branched below, ascending or erect above, terete, finely and evenly pubescent, especially towards the tips of the branches. Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, spreading, remote, ½–¾ in. long, linear-oblong to oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, sessile or shortly petioled, membranous, often blotched with grey, usually sharply and coarsely remotely denticulate. Flowers 2–6 towards the tips of the branches, small, pink, $1⁄5$ in. diam. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, almost equalling the petals. Stigma narrow-clavate. Capsules 1–1½ in. long, slender, densely and evenly hoary-pubescent; peduncles short, never exceeding the leaves. Seeds smooth.—E. haloragifoliuni, Kirk, Students Fl. 177 (not of A. Cunn.).