484 SCROPHULARINES. [Calceolaria. 
short filaments; anthers orbicular. Capsule }in. long.—Raoul, 
Choiz, 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 187; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 201; 
Bot. Mag. t. 6597. C. albula and C. Sturmii, Col. in Trams. N.Z. 
Inst. xxvii. (1895) 391, 392. 
Norty Istanp: Hicks Bay and the Hast Cape to Hawke’s Bay and the 
Ruahine Mountains, Sinclair, Colenso! Bishop Williams! Adams and Petrie! 
&e. November-February. 
2. C. repens, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 187.—A slender much- 
branched creeping and rooting pubescent herb, stems 4-12 in. long ; 
branches very slender, prostrate or ascending, sparingly leafy. 
Leaves opposite, on long slender petioles; blade 4-14 in. long, 
broadly oblong or ovate to orbicular, coarsely and irregularly 
doubly toothed or crenate, very thin and membranous, sparingly 
pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles terminal, small, 1-5-flowered; 
pedicels almost filiform. Flowers about +in. diam., white spotted 
with purple. Calyx adherent to the ovary at the base; lobes ovate, 
acute. Corolla divided about half-way down into two nearly equal 
concave entire lips, upper lip slightly smaller. Capsule ovoid- 
conic, membranous.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 202. 
Nort Isuanp: East Cape and Poverty Bay, Bishop Williams! ravines at 
the base of the Ruahine Range, Colenso! Mount Egmont, Buchanan! source 
of the Patea River, 7’. F. C.; Rimutaka Range, Kirk! Wainuiomata, 7. P. 
Arnold. SournH Isptanp: Nelson—Cedar Creek and valley of the Lyell, 
W. Townson! Westland—Otira and Teremakau Valleys, Petrie! Cockayne! 
250-2000 ft. December—February. 
2. MIMULUS, Linn. 
Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 
Flowers solitary and axillary, or the upper ones sometimes forming 
a terminal raceme. Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-angled, 
5-toothed. Corolla tubular at the base, 2-lipped above; upper lip 
erect or spreading, 2-lobed; lower spreading, 3-lobed; throat 
usually with two protuberances. Stamens 4, didynamous; an- 
thers all perfect, 2-celled ; cells divergent, often confluent at the 
top. Style slender; stigma of 2 flat iamine. Capsule loculi- 
cidally dehiscent, valves usually splitting away from a central 
column which bears the placentas. Seeds small, numerous. 
A genus of about 50 species, most numerous in western America, found more 
sparingly in eastern and tropical Asia, South Africa, and Australia; not known 
in Europe in the wild state. The single New Zealand species extends to Aus- 
tralia and Tasmania. 
M. repens, &. Br. Prodr. 439.—Perfectly glabrous. Stems 
stout, succulent, creeping and rooting at the joints; branches pros- 
trate or ascending or erect, 1-5 in. long. Leaves opposite, sessile, 
often stem-clasping, 44+ in. long, broadly ovate to oblong, obtuse, 
quite entire, thick and succulent, pitted when dry. Flowers few, 
