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MIMULUS parviflorus. 
Small'Jhwer^dJillinmliis, 
DIDYNAMIA ANGigSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINEiE. 
MIMULUS. L.< Calyx tuhulosus, ant^ulatiis, 5-(]ontatiis. CoroUd 
porsoiiata : labio superiore bilobo, lateribus rt Hi xo; iiit'erioic ti ilido, 
ciiiiis sul);r(iUiiiil)iis. Stamina 4, cHdynania. Anf/trraniin lol)is divaricatis. 
Sfi(jmu biliiinellatuin. Capsvla calyce iiiclusa, l)i!()Ciilaiis, locuIici(l(i-l)i- 
valvis; valvis inti niis. Herbic erectic, procninbviites, aut rcpciitcs, lariiis 
frutices. Folia opposita. Flores axillarcs, xoiitarii, subspicati, aut rarius 
corymbosi, ebrocUati, flavi,-aurantiaci, violacci, aut albi. Kunth synwsis. 
2. 127. 
M. parviflorus, procumbens, caule terete radicante piloso, foliis coidato- 
ovatis deiitatis 5-Dervibus, petiolis pilosis^ pedunculis pilosis folio bre- 
vioribus. 
Herba annua, decnmbens, adnodos radicans; cavliLiis terctihns, carnnsis, 
pilosis. Folia opposita, cordato-ovata, pctiolata, serralo-dentata, o-nei via, 
avenia, plana, pnbcscentia,petiolo amplcxi-cauli, piano, canaliculato. Flores 
solitarii, axillares, longe pedimcnlati, pedunculo Joliis breviore Jilijormi, 
glanduloso-piloso. Calyx campannlatus, pentagonus, 5-lobns, pilosus, lohii 
compressis, patentibus, superiore imdto majore, falcate. Corolla tubulosa, 
infundibularis, calyce ptmlo longior, subtns bisulcata, 5-loba, lutea, bila- 
btata, lobis rotundatis, tequalibus, inferiore emarginato, paulo majore: 
fauce pilosd, sanguineo maculata, lineis duabus elevatis. Stamina 4, iucluaa, 
didynama, basi tubiinserta; filamenta Jiliformia; antherce glabrae, hippo- 
crepicoE, conneciivo gibboso. Ovarium biloculare, polysper mum, disco nulla. 
Stylus Jiliformis. Stigma bilobum, lobi$ agnalibu^, planis, tenuilnu, dilatatiSf 
ptiuiS iaceris: inferiore^ recurvo. 
A pretty new hardy annual species of Mimulus, raised 
in the garden of the Horticultural Society, from Chilean 
seeds presented by Francis Place, Esq. Our drawing was 
made duriiig last summer. 
It is extremely difficult to ascertain whether this plant 
be actually undescribed or not. It certainly is not referable 
to any published species, if we are to judge of tliem by 
specific characters and descriptions only ; but it is not im- 
possible, that as nearly all the South American species have 
been described from dried specimens, which in plants so de- 
licate and vascular as this is, are much changed in their 
preparation^ some allowance should be made iov that cir- 
