6. Mazus.] 98. 8CR0PHULARIACEJE. 



Leaves more or less sinuate, crenate or dentate. Scapes 1-5-8" high, sometimes 

 with alternate leaves on the lower part. Pedicels ■\--6" or even -75" in fruit. 

 Calj'x m fruit •3--4" long and "o" diam. Two lower stamens exserted, two upper 

 m the tube, anthers conniving in pairs. 



7. HERPESTIS, Gaerta.f. 

 Glabrous, often gland-punctate, herbs with often narrow entire or 

 toothed, or submersed niultifid, leaves. Flowers axillary or racemose, 

 yellow blue or Avhite, pedicels bracteolate or not. Sepals 5, sepals 

 unequal, upper often large. Corolla with cylindric tube and spreading 

 lips, iipper outer in bud, notched or 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed. Stamens 

 didynamous, included, anther-cells contiguous, distinct. Style 

 dilated at top and 2-lobed or entire. Capsule 2-grooved, valves 2 or 4, 

 separating from an entire columnar placenta. Seeds many very 

 minute. 



Slender, creeping. Flowers peduncled I. monniera. 



Stout, erect. Flowers sessile 2. Jlamiltoniana. 



1. H. monniera, H. B. cf- K. 



A creeping sub-s\icculent herb with narrowly obovate-oblong or 

 spathulate entire sessile obtuse leaves -G-'TS" long and purplish- 

 white or pink flowers •3--45" long on pedicels •2o--5". Calyx lobes 

 very unequal, 2 larger -17" in flower enlarging to -25", ovate-oblong. 

 Capsule ovoid acute included. 



A common marsh plant, but badly represented in herbaria. Behar, J.D.H. ! 

 Smgbhum, common ! Manbhum, Camp. ; Chilka Lake, Cal. Herb. ! Fl„ Fr. June- 

 Dec, 



Glabrous, stems up to 12". Leaves with very obscure nerves. Peduncles some- 

 times lengthening to 1'3" in fruit and deflexed. Bracteoles small. Corolla -.i" 

 diam. 



2. H. Hamiltoniana, Benth. 



A herb 6-12" high Avith -l-angled stems, linear-lanceolate leaves, 

 1-1"5" long and sessile flowers -17" long. Capsule globose surrounded 

 by the very unequal sepals, of which the upper is broadly ovate 

 acute •25" long and nearly as broad, lateral ovate or lanceolate, and 

 the two inner linear-oblong shorter than the capsule. 

 Marshy ground. Singbhum ! Fl. Sept.-Oct. Fr, Nov. -Dec, 

 Glabrous, erect. Leaves •12--17" broad, tajjering at base. Bracteoles setaceous, 

 shorter than capsule. Corolla .scarcely longer than the calyx in tiower, upper lip 

 2-fid beyond the middle. Fruiting calyx somewhat venous. Cap.sule 4-valved. 

 Seeds cylindric, truncate. 



8. MIMULUS, L. 



Erect or prostrate, usually glandular, herbs with opposite leaves 

 and solitary axillary or subracemose irregular flowers. Calyx 

 tubular, 5-angled and -toothed. Corolla 2-lipped, upper lip 2 , lower 

 3-lobed, throat usually Avith a SAvoUen 2-lobed palate. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, anther-cells divergent subconfluent or confluent at the 

 tips. Stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule compressed, loculicidal, \'alves 

 separating from the placentiferous septum. Seeds numerous, minute, 

 oblong. 



Erect, leaves .sessile, narrow oblong \. cjracilig. 



Creeping, leaves petioled, orbicular 2. orbicularit. 



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