Tab. 5423. 



MIMULUS REPENS. 



Creeping Monkey -flower. 



Nat. Orel. Scrophulariace.e. — Didynamia Gymnospermia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 5-angulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla labium supe- 

 rius erectum vel reflexo-patens bilobum, inferne patens trilobum intus ad fauccin 

 saepius bigibbosum, laciniis omnibus rotunilatis planis. Stamina fertilia 4. An- 

 therarum loculi deorsum subconfluentes. Stylus apice bilamellatus, laciniis sub- 

 ovatis subaequalibus. Capsula vix sulcata, bivalvis, loculicide dehiscens ; valvulis 

 integris raro bifidis, medio septiferis, columnam centralem placentiferam inte°rain 

 vel bifidam nudantibus. — Herbse extra-Europea, decumbentes vel erectm. Folia 

 opposita. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, unfflori, superiores interdum ad apices 

 ramorum opposite racemosi. Benth. in Be Cand. 



Mimulus repens ; repens, foliis sessilibus vel amplexicaulibus ovatis oblongisve 

 obtusis, pedunculis folio parum longioribus, calycibus ovatis truncatis bre- 

 vissime dentatis. Benth. 



Mimulus repens. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 439. Benth. in Be Cand. 

 Prodi: p. 373. Hook. Fil. Fl. Nov. Zel. v. 1. p. 188. Ejusd. Fl, Tasman. 

 v. I. p. 290. 



Twenty-nine species of the genus Mimulus are enumerated by 

 Mr. Bentham, of which the majority are natives of North Ame- 

 rica, chiefly on the Pacific side, and with many of these we 

 are familiar in our gardens. Three inhabit India, one Mada- 

 gascar, one the Cape, two tropical and two extra-tropical 

 Australia. The last-mentioned are remarkable in being pros- 

 trate or creeping, and necessarily include the present species, 

 which was discovered by Mr. Brown, at Port Jackson ; but it 

 extends to Victoria (whence seeds were sent to us by Dr. Mueller, 

 in 1862), and is probably frequent in the more temperate regions 

 of Australia, appearing again in Tasmania; and Dr. Hooker 

 speaks of it as common " in saline situations, and muddy banks 

 of rivers, etc., in New Zealand." It is now, we believe, first 

 cultivated in Europe, and we are glad to give a figure of so very 

 pretty a species. Mr. Bentham well observes, " Habitu Herpe- 



JANUARY 1ST, 1864. 



