TAB. 8554. 
MAZUS 1 REPTANS. 
[imalaya. 
ScROPHULARIACEAE. ‘Tribe GRATIOLEAE. 
Mazus, Lour.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 947. 
Mazus reptans, N. LE. Brown; species nova affinis M. surculoso, Don, sed 
glabrior, internodiis brevioribus, foliis minoribus angustioribus et acutiori- 
bus oppositis nec rosulatis et corollae tubo calyce longiore differt. 
Herba perennis caespitosa, ad 3-5 cm. alta. Caules repentes radicantes, 1 mm. 
crassi internodiis 5-25 mm. longis, glabri. Folia opposita, cum petiolo 
1-5-2°5 cm. longa, 4-9 mm. lata, lanceolata oblanceolata vel subelliptica, 
acuta, utrinque 2-3-dentata, infra medium in petiolum angustius alatum 
attenuata, glabra, subtus secus costam glandulis minutissimis conspersa. 
Racemi 2-5-flori, erecti, 4-5 cm. longi, e basi florentes. Pedicelli 0°8-2 
em. longi, erecti, graciles, unifariam pubescentes, minute unibracteati. 
Calyx 5-6 mm. longus, ad medium vel infra 5-lobus, sparse glanduloso- 
puberulus; lobi patuli, lanceolati vel elongato-deltoideo-ovati, acuti. 
Corolla inaequaliter bilabiata, purpureo-coerulea, labio inferiore albo 
luteo et rubro-purpureo variegato; tubus 7-8 mm, longus, minutissime 
glandulosus ; labia porrecta; labium superius levissime recurvum, 8-10 
mm. longum, basi 8°5 mm. latum, apice bifidum; labium inferius 
1-1°3 em. longum, 1 em. latum, subplanum, 3-lobum, disco _bicalloso 
callis albo-pilosis; lobi anguste oblongi, obtusi. Stamina 4, didynama, 
2 inferioribus breviter exsertis; filamenta glabra. Stylus filiformis, 
glaber, albus; stigma incrassatum, 2-lobum.—M. rugosus, Gard. Chron. 
1913, vol. liii. pp. 158, 190, 210 cum icon. ; nec Lour. Mazus sp., Colchester 
in Gard. Chron, l.c. p. 240.—N. E. Brown. ; 
The very interesting little Scropulariad here figured is 
one for whose introduction to English gardens we are 
indebted to Mr. B. Crisp, of the Wargrave Plant Farm, 
Limited, by whom it was shown at a meeting of the 
Royal Horticultural Society on March 4, 1913, where it 
was accepted by those responsible as Mazus rugosus, 
Lour. It is a member of the genus Mazus, but it is singu- 
larly unlike Jf rugosus, though, according to Mr. Crisp, 
like M. rugosus it is a native of the Himalaya. There 
is not, however, in any of the collections we have 
examined, a Himalayan specimen which in habit is at all 
like the species now figured, though a form with the same 
general facies but with different foliage occurs in the 
Khasia Hills to the east of the Himalaya. . For the 
May, 1914. 
