258 CUL SCROPHULARINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sutera 
A large tree, often half epiphytic, appressed to and grasping the boles of forest 
trees by roots given off from the trunk, which is sometimes a foot or more in 
diameter. Zeaves 6-12 by 3-6 in. ovate lanceolate rounded or elliptic, acute or 
obtuse, glabrous above and finally beneath ; base acute or rounded; nerves 4-6 pair, 
oblique; petiole 1-13 in., stout. Thyrsi 4-8 in., erect, narrow ; peduncle and rachis 
very stout; pedicels 1-3 in., 2-bracteolate in the middle, hoary-pubescent. Calyz 
short, J'in. long and broad, lobes rounded. Corolla 1 in. long, mealy. Stamens far 
exserted. Capsule ovoid, thinly coriaceous, 14 in. long by $ in. broad; columnar 
axis entire.—The Javan species alluded to in the * Genera Plantarum ” differs in the 
much longer and woody capsules with the columnar axis 2-partite. 
TRIBE V. MANULEZ. 
10. SUTERA, Roth. 
A low diffuse viscid-pubescent herb. Leaves pinnatifid, lower opposite, 
upper alternate. Flowers small, axillary and in terminal racemes; pedicels 
bracteate, ebracteolate. Sepals 5, narrow. Corolla-tube slender, throat not 
dilated; lobes 5, small, 2 upper outer in bud and rather smaller. Stamens 
4, didynamous, included, filaments filiform. Style short, stigma obtuse or 
notched. Capsule ovoid-oblong, septicidal, valves bifid. Seeds numerous, 
testa pitted. 
S. glandulosa, Roth Bot. Bemerk. 172, and Nov. Sp. 291; Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. x. 362; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 422; Wight Ic. t. 856 ; Miquel FT. 
Ind. Bat. ii. 676 ; S. dissecta, Walp. Rep. ii. 971. Capraria dissecta, Del. 
Fl. Eg. i. 95, t. 32, f. 2. 
From MARWAR, Dalzell, BANDA, Edgeworth, BEHAR, J. D. H., and BENGAL, 
Griffith, to the Sourn DzccAN, Heyne, but not common.—DIsTRIB. Arabia, Egypt, 
ubia. : 
Annual, branched from the base, branches 6-10 in. long. Leaves }-} in., ovate in 
outline, shortly petioled, segments toothed and cut. Flowers axillary all along the 
branches, sessile or pedicelled, uppermost racemose. Calyx } in. long. Cor ol 
nearly white, about twice as long, glabrous. Capsule exceeding the calyx. 
Trige VI. GRATIOLEIE. 
11. MIMULUS, L. 
_Erect prostrate or creeping herbs. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary, 
axillary. Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-angled, 5-toothed. Corolla 2- 
lipped, upper lip erect or reflexed, 2-lobed; lower spreading, 3-lobed ; throat 
with usually a swollen 2-lobed palate. Stamens 4, didynamous ; anther-cells 
divergent, subconfluent. Style slender, stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule com- 
pressed, loculicidal, valves separating from the placentiferous column. Seeds 
numerous, minute, oblong.— Species 40, temperate and tropical. 
1. M. nepalensis, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 29, and in DC. Prodr. x. 373; 
prostrate, glabrous, leaves petioled ovate coarsely serrate, calyx truncate 
9-toothed, corolla yellow, capsule included. Wall. Cat. 3917; Maxim. 
Diagn. Pl. Nov. Dec. xix. 401. M. assamicus, Griff. in. Madr, Journ. Nat. 
Sc. iv. 9, and Notul.iv. 92, and Ic. Pl. Ind. Asiat. t. 458, f. 8, 9. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Nepal, Wallich, to Bhotan, Griffith. ASSAM, on the 
banks of the Burrampootra, Griffith. —DrsTRIB. Japan. 
Stems straggling, 6-10 in. long, stout or slender, sometimes faintly hairy. Calyz 
