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Mimulus. | XCII. SCROPHULARIACE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). 311 
acuminate, usually amplexicaul, entire and slightly repand or 1emotely 
denticulate. Flowers solitary, axillary, forming rather leafy loose 
racemes; pedicels #—-1 in. long, up to 1# in. long in the fruiting stage, 
suberect, Calyx 34-4 lin. long, 5-angled; teeth broad at the base, 
1-1} lin. long, unequal, subacuminate, keeled. Corolla about 7 lin. 
long, whitish, whitish-violet or white-rosy (Welwitsch), tubular, very 
unequally bilabiate; upper lip short, emarginate; lower lip broadly 
3-lobed. Capsule very slightly shorter than the calyx, obovoid.— 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 369 and 594; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 259; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 758, and in Dyer, FI. Cap. iv. ii. 354; 
8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 467. MJ. angustifolius, Hochst. ex A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 119. M. strictus, Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 
3918, and Scroph. Ind. 28. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Sana; Bahara District, Schimper, 1629! Begemeder, 
Schimper, 1135! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; banks of the River Luxillo, 
Welwitsch, 5874! West Luxillo River, Welwitsch, 5855! Mossamedes; vear the 
River Bero, Welwitsch, 5807, 5808. Huilla; by the Lopollo stream, Welwitsch, 
5796! Malange, Gossweiler, 1087! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; near Expedition 
Island, Kirk! British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 
143! Zomba and east end of Lake Shirwa, Meller! Matabeleland; Bulawayo, 
Rand, 156, 368, 506, Gardner, 70! 
Also in South Africa, China, India and Australia. 
19, LINDENBERGIA, Lehm.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 948. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla bilabiate ; tube cylindric; posti- 
cous lip inside, short, broad, emarginate or 2-lobed, erect-spreading ; 
anticous lip larger, 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, in- 
cluded ; filaments filiform ; anther-cells distinct, separated, stipitate, all 
bearing pollen. Style filiform, subclavate at the apex. Capsule oblong 
or ovoid, bisuleate, dehiscence loculicidal; valves entire Seeds many, 
minute, semi-immersed in the fleshy placentas.—Annual or perennial 
herbs, hard at the base, rarely undershrubs, decumbent or ascending, 
villous or more rarely glabrescent. Leaves opposite or the upper 
alternate, dentate. Flowers subsessile, solitary in the axils of the 
leaves or in terminal spikes or racemes; bracts foliaceous ; bracteoles 0. 
Species 14, in North-east Africa, Arabia, India, Malaya and China. 
Annual; corolla glabrous . . 1. L. nigrescens. 
Perennial; corolla pubescent. 
Leaves 23-4 lin. long, denticulate, the lower scarcely os 
larger than the upper; corolla 45-5} lin. long 2. L. scutellarioides. 
Leaves up to 2} in. long, coarsely toothed, the lower 
larger than the upper; corolla 7-8 lin. long. 
Lower leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular-ovate. 
Leaves up to about 7 lin. long, the uppermost ao 
shorter than the calyx ; calyx 14-2 lin.long 3. Z. sinaica. 
