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nearly salverf orm : limb usually 5-lobed, strongly bilabiate 

 or nearly regular. 0. Stamens 4, strongly diclynamous. 

 Style filiform: stigma bilamellar with lobes unequally or 

 equally petaloicl-dilated, or more or less peltate-funnelform. 

 Gapsule indehiscent, or the valves partly (seldom completely) 

 separating, cartilaginous, coriaceous, chartaceous, or rarely 

 even membranaceous, gibbous at base, obtuse and shorter 

 than the calyx, or acuminate and considerably surpassing it: 

 placeutas borne on the middle of the valves, not uniting in 

 the axis. Seeds numerous, dark colored, often muriculate. 



Dwarf annuals of California, the stem and branches terete 

 and firmly erect or ascending, never decumbent, the herbage 

 dark green or purplish, glandular and resinous-viscid, but 

 never slimy: foliage generally narrow and entire: flowers 

 purple or variegated, in tAvo species yellow. — Benth. DCL 

 Prod. X. 374. Mimulus § (Ence and § Eunanus, Gray, 

 Bot. Cal. and Syn. Fl. N. Am., including also Mimulus 

 £ Mimulastrum, Gray, Bot. Gaz. IX. 141. 



Abundant fruiting specimens now in the herbarium of the 

 Academy show the capsule of En nanus to be in several ways 

 very unlike that of Mimulus. In the first section, although 

 shorter a good deal than the calyx, it is almost bony in tex- 

 ture, and altogether indehiscent. In the second the valves 

 separate only along the upper suture, and partly down the 

 lower, though often not even to the apex of the upper. 

 Again; not even in the yellow-flowered species is there the 

 light green herbage, the breadth of foliage, or any trace of 

 the transparent, albuminous, slippery exudation peculiar to 

 Mimulus. The second and third sections agree in a peculiar 

 habit. The first has not onry a habit of its own, but also 

 certain technical peculiarities, chiefly the tough, indehiscent 

 capsules, which render its elevation to generic rank, as was 

 long ago proposed by Dr. Gray, extremely desirable. The 

 only obstacle is a species herein first defined, a plant always 

 heretofore confounded with E. Douglasii. In it are conjoin- 

 ed the floral character of that species, nearly, with the habit 

 and capsule of Eunanus proper. 



