NAT. ORDER, 

 ScrophularineeB. 



MIMULUS AURANTIACUS. MONKEY FLOWER 



Class XIV. DiDYNAMiA. Older II. Angiospermia. 



Gen^. Cliar. Calyx, prismatic, five-toothed. Corolla, ringent, up- 

 per lip reflexed at the sides. Pelate of the lower lip, promi- 

 nent. Stigma, thick, bifid. 



Spe. Char. Stern, erect, smooth. Leaves, sessile, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate. Peduncles, axillary, shorter than the flowers. 



The present species of Mimulus is equal in point of beauty 

 to most of the inhabitants of our green-houses, to which situation 

 it is most admirably adapted. The stalk rises about three feet 

 high, much branched, shrubby, round, the young wood green, 

 with a tinge of purple towards the lower part of each joint, 

 slightly viscid, as it becomes older changing to a light brown color, 

 and discovering several fissures ; the branches are alternately op- 

 posite, and bearing flowers quite to the base ; the leaves are oppo- 

 site, sessile, slightly connate, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat blunt at 

 the extremity ; this bluntness is particularly apparent when con- 

 pared with a leaf of the Mimulus ringens : toothed, or slightly 

 sawed on the edge, smooth and veiny ; ihe Jloioers are inodorous, 

 large, nearly twice the size of those oi the ringens, and uniformly 

 of a pale scarlet color, growing in pairs, from the axil of the 

 leaves, standing on footstalks about half the length of the calyx ; 

 the calyx is five-angled and five-tootlicd ; the tube of the flower, 

 within the calyx, is narrow, cylindrical, of a beautiful pink color, 

 bent a little downward, gradually e.xpanding, and dividing into 



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