XC. SCEOPHULARIACE.E, 287 



floribunda, R. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 442 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 273; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 246 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 174.— Flowers : l^eb. 



The occurrence of this plant in the Bombay Presidency is somewhat doubtful. 

 Woodrow in his list of Bombay plants (^.c.) reports its occurrence in S. Kanara, 

 which is outside our area. Law has, in Herb. Kew., specimens from Kanara and 

 Mysore, and of these the Kanara ones are most probably also from S. Kanara. — 

 DisTBiB. S. India ; Ceylon, Java, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



7. MIMULUS, Linn. 



Decumbent or erect herbs, glabrous, pilose or viscid. Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary. Calyx tubular, pentagonal, 5-lobed ; lobes 

 short. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube cylindric ; upper lip 2-lobed, outer in 

 bud, erect orreflexed ; lower lip 3-lobed, spreading ; throat with usually 

 a swollen 2-lobed palate. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted near the 

 base of the corolla-tube, included or esserted under the upper lip ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled, the cells at length confluent at the 

 apex. Ovary 2-eelled ; ovules many in each cell ; style filiform ; stigma 

 2-lamellate. Capsule oblong or subliuear, loculicidal, 2-valved, the valves 

 entire or rarely 2-fid. Seeds numerous, minute, oblong. — Distuib. 

 Species about 60, chiefly extra-tropical American. 



1. Mimulus gracilis, R. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 439. A. perennial 

 erect ascending or decumbent glabrous herb 6-2U in. high, branched 

 near the base; stem and branches quadrangular, striate. Leaves radical 

 and cauline, 1^-3 by ^-f in., sessile (or the lower sometimes shortly 

 petiolate), |-amplexicaul, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, usually 

 obtuse, entire or nearly so, glabrous, base slightly narrowed. Flowers 

 solitary in each axil ; pedicels slender, |-1| in. long. Calyx 5-angled, 

 I in. long in flower (slightly enlarged in fruit) ; teeth ^ in. long, deltoid, 

 acute. Corolla |-^ in. long, glabrous ; tube cylindric below and but 

 little dilated above ; lobes shallow, rounded. Stamens included ; fila- 

 ments glabrous ; anthers subreniform. Ovary glabrous ; stigma 2- 

 lamellate. Capsules ^ in. long, obovoid, included in the slightly enlarged 

 calyx. Seeds minute, about -gig- in. long, oblong-ellipsoid, smooth. Fl. 

 B. L V. 4, p. 259 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174.— 

 Flowers : Mar.-Apr. 



Not common. Deccan : Poona, Woodrow I; Mawal taluka, river bank, Bhiva I ; 

 Mutha canal, right bank, Kaiiitkar ! — Distrib. India (W. Himalaya, Panjab, Behar, 

 N. Bengal, W. Peninsula); China, Australia, Tropical and S. Africu. 



8. STEMODIA, Linn. 



Herbs sometimes woody below, glandular-pubescent, often aromatic. 

 Leaves opposite or 3-4-nately whorled. Flowers axillary, solitary, passing 

 into terminal leafy spikes or close racemes ; bracts leafy ; bra>.teoles 1 or 

 2. Calyx 5-partite ; segments narrow, imbricate, all equal or the upper 

 a little larger. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube cylindric ; upper Hp exterior, 

 suberect, entire or notched, the lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the throat 

 not plicate. Stameus 4, didynamous, included ; filaments filiform ; 

 anther-cells stalked, distinct, all fertile. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules numerous 

 in each cell ; style dilated at the apex, not winged above ; stigma usually 

 2-lobed. Capsule globose, ovoid or acuminate ; valves 2, bifid, dehiscing 



