﻿354 SCEOPHDLAKIACE^ (Hiem). [Zaluzianshya. 



sessile, somewhat sheathing, subpilose, but little dentate ; spike 

 terminal, imbricate ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, sessile, ciliato, longer 

 than the calyx ; calyx carapanulate, o-partite, persistent, ^ in. long ; 

 segments linear, acute ; corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous, orange- 

 coloured, li in. long ; limb equally 5-lobed ; lobes oblong, obcordate, 

 i in. long ; anthers 2, half-exserted. 



South Africa : without locality, Jarosz. 



XXVI. MIMULUS, Linn. 



Calyx tubular, pentagonal, 5-toothed ; lobes somewhat unequal. 

 Corolla tubular, ringent ; tube cylindrical below, not or but little 

 dilated above; limb bilabiate ; posterior lip exterior in bud, bilobed, 

 erect or spreading ; anterior lip trilobed, spreading, usually marked 

 with two protuberances in the throat ; all the lobes nearly equal, 

 broad, rounded. Stamens 4, didynamous, all fertile, inserted near 

 the base of the corolla-tube, included or exserted under the posterior 

 lip ; filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled ; cells at length confluent 

 at the apex. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, usually bilobed at the 

 apex ; ovules numerous. Capsule oblong or sublinear, bivalved, 

 loculicidal ; valves entire or rarely bifid. >S'eed's small, numerous, 

 irregularly oval-prismatic, nearly smooth. 



Decumbent or erect herbs, glabrous, pilose or viscid ; leaves opposite, simple, 

 entire or dentate ; flowers axillnvy and solitary or arranged in terminal leafy 

 racemes ; peduncles ebracteate. 



DiSTElB. Species about 60, principally found iu extra-tropical America. 



1. M. gracilis (R. Br. Prodr. 439) ; a perennial herb, branched 

 about the base, erect, ascending or decumbent, leafy, glabrous, 

 shining, 6-20 in. high ; branches tetragonal ; leaves linear-oval or 

 lanceolate, obtusely narrowed at the apex, subcordate or obtuse, or 

 the lower wedge-shaped at the sessile or subsessile or shortly petio- 

 late base, nearly entire or repand or denticulate, |-2i in. long, 

 Ta^f ill- broad ; flowers solitary in each axil, rather numerous, about 

 fin. long; peduncles rather slender, mostly i-li in. long; calyx 

 about i in. long in flower, ^-f in. long in fruit ; teeth short, 

 deltoid, acute ; corolla white or' pink and white or white and 

 delicately spotted with yellow ; capsule oval, about -} in. long. 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 369. ' M. strictus, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 

 n. 31)18, and Seraph. Indie. 28 ; Drege, Zwei Pftanzengeogr. Docu- 

 mente, 143, 202. M. angustifolius, Hochst. 'in Herb. Scliimp. 

 Ahyss. iii. n. 1629, and ex A. Mich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 119; 0. 

 Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. iii. ii. 236. 



Coast Kegion : Albany Div.; Newyears River, MacOwan! King Williams- 

 town Div. ; by the Kacbn (Yellowwood) River, Brege, 4022 ! Queenstown Div. j 

 Shiloh, Baur, 824 ! Eclclon ! Stockenstrom Div. ; Kat Berg, Scully, 31-1 ■ 

 British Kaflraria, Cooper, 355 ! 



