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180 at the apex, shortly petioled or almost sessile, membranous or fleshy or subcoriaceous, entire or sinuate-denticulate; margins flat or slightly recurved. Flowers few, from the axils of leaves remote from the ends of the branches, very small, $1⁄8$–$1⁄6$ in. diam. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, almost equalling the petals. Stigma clavate. Capsules ¾–1½ in. long, glabrous or pubescent; peduncles much elongated, slender, 2–4 in. long. Seeds papillose.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 57; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 77; Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 302; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 173.

16. E. purpuratum, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 77.—Stems 1–4 in. long, branched, prostrate and rooting at the nodes, perfectly glabrous, purplish-black. Leaves all opposite, crowded, horizontally spreading, ¼–½ in. long, broadly oblong or orbicular-oblong, obtuse, shortly petioled, thick and coriaceous, entire or obscurely minutely toothed, purplish below; veins indistinct. Flowers not seen. Peduncles springing from the axils of the intermediate leaves, stout, 2 in. long. Capsules as long as or shorter than the peduncles, stout, purplish-black, perfectly glabrous. Seeds papillose.—''Haussk. Monog. Epilob. 303; Barbey, Gen. Epilob. t. 18, f. 2; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 174.

17. E. macropus, ''Hook. Ic. Plant.'' t. 812.—Stems numerous, slender, branched from the base, 3–9 in. long, decumbent or creeping and rooting below, ascending at the tips, purplish, more or less