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MlMULUS AURANTIACUS. ORANGE MONKEY- 



Flower. 



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DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 4-dontatus prifmaticus. Cor. ringens : labio fuperiore 



lateribus replicato. Cap/. 2-locularis polyfperma. 



Specific Character. 



MlMULUS aurantiacus caule ereclo fruticofo tereti, foliis 



ovato-lanceolatis obtufiufculis. 



The prefent fpecics of Mimulus, equal in point of (hew to 

 moft of the inhabitants of our greenhoufes, to which fituation it 

 is adapted, flowered this Summer with Mr. Colvill, Nurfery- 

 man, King's-Road. 



Stalk about three feet high, much branched, flirubby, round, 

 the young wood green, with a tinge of purple toward the lower 

 part of each joint, (lightly vifcid, as it becomes older changing 

 to a light brown colour, and difcovering manifeft iiffures -, 

 branches alternately oppohte, flower-bearing quite to the bafe ; 

 leaves oppofite, fertile, (lightly connate, ovato-Ianceolate, . fome- 

 what blunt at the extremity, this bluntnefs is particularly 

 apparent when contrafted with a leaf of the ringens, toothed or 

 (lightly fawed on the edge, fmooth, veiny ; (lowers inodorous, 

 large, nearly twice the (ize of thofe of the ringens, uniformly 

 pale orange, growing in pairs from the ake of the leaves, 

 (landing on footltalks about half the length of the calyx ; 

 calyx five-angled and five-toothed, tube of the flower within 

 the calyx, narrow, cylindrical, pale yellow, bent a little down- 

 ward, gradually expanding, and dividing into two lips, the 

 upper lip divided into two, the lower lip into three fegments, 

 all of them irregular, the two uppermolt very much fo ; at the 

 bafe of the middle fegment of the lower lip are two prominent 

 ridges, of a fomewhat deeper colour ; (lamina four, two long, 

 two fhort ; antherae deep orange, cruciform, within the flower; 

 ftigma white, two-lip'd, lips clofed or expanded according to its 

 age ; ftyle filiform ; gcrmen oblong ; at the bafe of the gerraen 

 is a gland of confiderable fize which fecretes much honey. 



This plant flowers during moft of the Summer, and is 

 increafed by cuttings. We know not with certainty of what 

 country it is a native. 



