Tab. 5478. 

 MIMULUS luteus, var. cuprea. 



Yellow Monkey-flower ; copper-coloured var. 



Nat. Ord. Scrophularine^:.' — Didynamia Angiospermia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5423.) 



Mimulus luteus; glaber vel viscido-puberulus, caule adscendente v. erecto, 

 foliis plerisque eroso-dentatis orbicularis ovatis suboblongisve inferioribus 

 longc petiolatis sublyratis, superioribus sessdibus vel cordato-amplcxicaulibus 

 plurinervibus, pedunculis folio longioribus, calycibus ovatis fructiferis in- 

 flatis, dentibus ovatis supremo maximo, corollae amplas tubo calyce duplo 

 saltern longiore. Bentli. 



Mimulus luteus. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 884; Bot. Mag. t. 1501, 3386,^ 3363; 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1080 et 1796. Andr. Bot. Repos. t. 61. Jaca. Jil. Eclog. v. 1. 

 t. 92. Benth. in Be Cand. Prodr. v. 10. p. 370. 



Mimulus guttatus. Be Cand. Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 127. Reichenb. Ic. PI. 

 Cult. t. 204. 



Mimulus variegatus. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1872. 



Mimulus rivularis. Nutt. Joum. Acad. Philad. v. 7. p. 47- Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 1575. 



Mimulus lyratus. Benth. Scroph. Lnd. p. 28 in adnot. 



Mimulus Smitbii. Lind. Bot. Reg. t. 1674. 



Var. cuprea; nana ctespitosa glabra, foliis subrhombeo-ovatis, floribus primum 

 luteis demum cupreis. (Tab. Nostr. 5478.) 



Mimulus cupreus. Veitch, in Gard. Chron. 1864.^. 2. Regel, Gart.Fl. 1864. 

 t. 422. 



We received a flowering plant of this from Messrs. Veitch, of 

 the Royal Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Chelsea, in August of 

 the present year, under the name of Mimulus cupreus. It had 

 been sent to Messrs. Veitch by their collector, Mr. Pearce, from 

 the Chilian Andes, at an elevation of six to seven thousand feet 

 above the sea-level. Pretty as is this plant in its dwarf and com- 

 pact habit, and in the varying colour of its flowers, — from a ful- 

 vous-yellow in the newly-expanded blossoms to a rather bright 

 copper-colour before they fade, — we are nevertheless satisfied it 



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