Mimulcs.] SCROPHULARIACE&. 143 



7. MIMULUS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 253. 



Errot prostrate or creeping; herbs, often viscid. Leapei opposite. 

 Flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx tubular, 6-angled ; lobes 5, short- 

 Corolla 8-fipped; upper lip 2-lobed, erect or reflexed ; lower 3-lobed, 

 spreading, threat usually with a swollen 2-lobed palate. Stamens 4, 

 dklynairous; ai.thers attached near the base of the corolla-tubr. 

 with divergent snb-confluent cells. Ovary 2-eelled, style slender, 

 .-tigma 2-lamellate. Fruit an oblong obovoid or sub-linear loculicidally 

 2-yalved capsule. Seeds many, minute, oblong.— Species about i*0, 

 chiefly in extra tropical and mountainous regions of W. America. 

 Asia, Australia and Africa. 



M. gracilis, R. Br. Prod. 439; F. B. I. iv, 259; Collett Fl. Bind. 350 • 

 Prain Beivj. VI. 759; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 287. 



An erect ascending or decumbent glabrous perennial herb, 6-20 in. hisrh, 

 often branching from the base ; stem and branches 4-angular, striate. 

 Leaves 14-3 in. lung, rather fleshj, turning black when dry, sessile or the 

 lowermost shortly stalked, J-amplexicaul, narrowly oblcng or oblong- 

 lanceolate, ol tuse, entire or slightly toothed, glabrous. Flowers on 

 slender pedicels, i-li in. long. Calyx (in flower)^ in. long, somewhat 

 enlarged in fruit ; teeth short, deltoid, acute. Corolla about i in. 

 long, white < r pale-blue spotted with yellow, glabrous ; lobes shallow, 

 rounded. Blamens included, filaments glabrous, anthers subreniform. 

 Ovary glabr« us. Cajmdes i in. long, included in the slightly enlarged 

 calyx. Seeds smooth. 



Wet i laces near Saharanpur, also in Dehra Dun and in the sub-Hima- 

 layan tracts of N. Oudh. Flowers during April and May. Distrib.: 

 Punjab Plain, and N. Bengal ; Himalaya from Kumaon to Kashmir up 

 to 5,000 ft ; extending to China, Australia and to Trop. and S. Africa. 



8. MAZUS, Lour; Fl. Brit. Iud. iv, 259. 



Small herbs, often with runners. Leaves opposite, sometimes 

 rcsulate, tho-:e of the flowering branches mostly alternate. Flowers 

 in terminal sub«secund racemes; bracts minute, bracteoles none. 

 Calyx broadly campanulate ; lobes 5, leafy. Corolla 2-lipped, tube 

 short, upper lip erect, 2-fid. ; lower much larger, spreading, 3-fid., 

 throat with a 2-lobed palate. Stamens didynamous, anther-cells 

 contiguous but distinct. Ovary 2-celled, short, stigma 2-lamellate. 

 Fruit a small glob< se or compressed luculicidhl capsule includt-d 

 within the calyx, valves entire. Seeds many, minute, ovoid. Species 

 about 6. extending from ChiDa to India and Australia. 



