﻿Mimulus.] scROPHULARiACEiE (Hiem). 355 



Centeal Region: Somerset DIv. ; near Somerset East, MacOwan, 1501 ! 

 Boicker .' Graaff Eeinet Div. ; Cave Mountain, Bolus, 529 ! Albert Div. ; 

 Molteno, Kuntze I 



Kalahari Region: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 896! 28S4 ! Barrett 

 Hamilton! Transvaal; HoutboscL, Rehmann, 5983 ! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 

 1085 ! 



Eastern Region: Natal; Mohlamba Range, Sutherland/ Umlilnnga, 

 Wood,136Q\ Weenen County, Wood in MacOwan, Herh. Aust.-AJr., 1506! 

 between Pietennaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2VJ&\ Ladysmitb, Kuntze. 



Also in Tropical Africa, India and Australia. 



XXVII. MONIERA, B. Juss. 



Calyx 5-partite ; segments erect, imbricate in bud, back one the 

 broadest, lateral ones innermost and narrow. Corolla shortly- 

 tubular ; tube cylindrical ; limb subbilabiate, spreading ; posterior lip 

 exterior in bud, emarginate or bilobed ; anterior lip 3-lobed ; all the 

 lobes equal or the two posterior connate higlier than the other 

 three. Stamens 4, didynamous, included within the corolla-tube ; 

 filaments filiform, inserted on the corolla-tube, not toothed ; anthers 

 all fertile, 2 -celled ; cells distinct, contiguous, parallel or divaricate 

 or finally contiuent. Omry 2-celled ; ovules numerous ; style 

 dilated at the apex, concave or slightly bilobed. Capsules globose 

 or ovoid, bisulcate, bivalved, loculieidal ; valves bifid or bipartite. 

 Heeds numerous, usually striate and transversely reticulate. 



Herbs usually glabrous; leaves opposite; flowers axillary and solitary or some- 

 times arranged in terminal leafy racemes. 

 DiSTRiB. Species about 50, chiefly tropical American. 



1. M. cuneifolia (Michaux, Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 22, Monniera) ; 

 a prostrate, creeping or decumbent herb, glabrous, leafy, small; 

 leaves obovate-cuneiform or oblong, rounded at the apex, more or 

 less narrowed at the base, rather thick, subsessile, i-;} m. long, 

 tVt in. broad, entire or crenate ; flowers axillary, solitary, few, 

 about A in. long; peduncles equalling the leaves or longer or 

 shorter, bibracteolate near the top ; calyx about-?, in. long in flower, 

 i in. long in fruit; corolla pale blue or nearly Avhite ; capsules 

 H in. long. Qratiola Monnieria, Linn. Cent. PI. n. n. 1 JJ ; 

 Aman. Acad. iv. 306. Monniera Broimei and M. afncana I ers^. 

 Syn. ii. 166. Herpestis crenata, Beauv. Fl. Owar. u. K,, f. 11-. 

 JI. cuneifolia, Pvrsh, FL Amer. Sept. ii. 418 //. Mu;nurna, 

 Sunh. Bonpi cj- Knnth, Nov. Gm. et Sp. PL 1.-366 ■^Hcirv.Oen^ 

 S. Afr. Pl.ed. 2, 268 ; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot.Mag. n_ oN 

 nnd in DC. Prodr. x. 400 ; Bat. Mag. t. 2557. B. afncana, Steud. 

 Nomencl. Bot. ed. i. 402. //. pedunculosa, Stfud, I.e. erf. "- '»-^- 

 Bacopa Monniera, WetUt. in Engl. & P>antl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3L, . /. 



South Africa: ^^ithout locality Pm/^, 5349 ^ 



Kalahari Region: Griqualand West, Heroerc wn.,.^u ^ , j f 



Or pen, 6 ' 



A a 2 



