758 LXXXIX. SCROPHULARIACES. | Vemia 
Huitia.—Corolla sordid orange in colour, the limb subringent. In 
moist bushy places near a cataract ; fl. end of Oct. 1859. No. 5836. 
An annual or biennial herb ; root rather thick or even more or less 
turnip-shaped ; radical leaves rosnlate; stem straight, ending in 
paniculate racemes of flowers ; flowers. orange- -dusky, very slender, 
rather fleshy : corolla-tube long ; the limb 5-cleft, sub-bilabiate ; the 
four upper lobes approximated, the fifth bent down ; stamens scarcely 
reaching the throat of the corolla; style simple ; stigma a little 
thickened. In bushy pastures near Lopollo, plentiful; fl. and fr. 
9 Jan. 1860. No. 5835. 
This is nearly related to NV. parviflora (VW. parviflora Benth.). 
6. MIMULUS L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 946. 
1. M. gracilis Br. Prodr. p. 439 (1810). 
Punco ANpDoNGO.—An annual herb; rhizome oblique, its fibres 
fasciculate ; flowers from whitish tending somewhat to a violet colour. 
In marshy meadows at the banks of the river Luxillo, sparingly ; fl. 
and fr. March 1857. No. 5874. Stem erect or ascending, slightly 
branched, 13 ft. high ; calyx tubular, alate-pentagonal, the limb sub- 
equally 5-cleft, the lobes keeled and erect ; corolla whitish straw- 
coloured, tubular, bilabiate, the upper lip emarginate, the lower lip 
3-lobed, the middle lobe larger than the lateral ones and ornamented 
on the disk with orange-yellow points ; stamens 4, didynamous, inserted 
on the corolla-lobe, included or scarcely exserted ; anthers all fertile ; 
ovary ovoid-ellipsoidal, 2-celled, the cells many-seeded; style somewhat 
flattened, spathulate towards the apex and there stigmatose. By 
marshes and in damp sandy places at the west Luxillo river, rather 
rare ; fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 5855. 
MossAMEDEs.—An erect herb with the habit of a Gratiola ; rhizome 
with numerous fibres; stems several ; flowers white-rosy. In sandy- 
muddy places at the river Bero, rather rare ; fl. July 1859. No. 5807. 
In like places at the banks of the river Bero near Cavalheiros, sporadic ; 
not yet in full fl. July 1859. No. 5808. 
Hv1itita.—Flowers white. In swamps close to the Lopollo stream ; 
fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 5796. 
STEMODIACRA P. Browne, Hist. Jam. 261, t. 22, f. 2 (1756). 
Seneca L. Syst. Nat., edit. 10, op: LHS (1759) ; Benth. & 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 950; Wettst. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
iv. 36, p. 74 (1891). Ambuli Adans. Fam. Pl. ii. p. 208 (1763). 
Matourea Aubl. Pl. Guian. ii. p. 641, t. 259 (1775). Dickia Scop. 
Introd. p. 199 (1777). Ambulia Lam. Encycl. i. p. 128 (1783) ; 
Wettst., l.c., p. 73. Diceros Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 381 (1790). 
Hydropityon Gertn. f. Fruct. iii. p. 19, t. 185 (1805). Limnophila 
R. Br. Prodr. p. 442 (1810); Benth. & Hook. f., de. 
I follow Ferd. v. Mueller in uniting the two genera cited from 
Bentham & Hooker f., since I am unable to distinguish them by 
valid characters: the following species belong to the section 
1. S. sessiliflora. 
Hottonia sessiliflora Vahl, Symb. Bot. ti. p. 36 (17 
Limnophila sessiliflora Blume, Bijd. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 749 (1 
Stemodia sessiliflora Ferd. Muell. Syst. Cens. Austral. Pl. p. 97 
