Mimulus.} SCROPHULARINES. 485 
axillary and solitary; peduncles stout, usually shorter than the 
leaves. Calyx broadly funnel-shaped or almost obconic, truncate 
at the mouth, minutely toothed. Corolla variable in size, +4in. 
diam., white with a yellow throat; tube dilated upwards, much 
longer than the calyx; lobes broad, rounded. Capsule broadly 
oblong, obtuse, enclosed in the calyx, about tin. long.—Hook. f. 
Fil. Nov. Zel. i. 188; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 202; Bot. Mag. t. 5423; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 482. M. Colensoi, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. iii. (1871) 179. 
NortH AND SoutH Is~anps: Salt marshes from the North Cape to the 
south of Otago, not common. November-January. 
Mr. Kirk’s M. Colensoi is a form with erect sparingly divided branches, but 
it does not otherwise differ fromthe type. The species is common in many parts 
of Australia and Tasmania. 
3. MAZUS, Lour. 
Small herbs, often prostrate and creeping. Lower leaves op- 
posite or rosulate, upper ones when present often alternate. 
Flowers in terminal subsecund racemes or solitary. Calyx cam- 
panulate, 5-partite, not angled. Corolla-tube short; upper lip 
erect, 2-fid; lower larger, spreading, 3-fid; throat with 2 pro- 
tuberances. Stamens 4, didynamous; anther-cells divergent, often 
confluent at the tip. Style slender; stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule 
loculicidally dehiscent, valves entire. Seeds numerous, very 
minute, ovoid. 
A small genus of 6 or 7 species, extending northwards through Australia to 
the Malay Archipelago, India, and China. One of the New Zealand species is 
found in Australia and Tasmania, and is very closely allied to the Indian 
M.rugosus ; the other is endemic. 
Slender. Leaves 3-3 in., linear-obovate or obovate-spathu- 
late, membranous. Flowers small, about+in. long .. 1. M. pumulio. 
Stout. Leaves 4-2 in., obovate or oblong. Flowers large, 
2in. long .. ¥, a, 23 Y .. 2. M. radicans. 
1. M. pumilio, £. Br. Prodr. 439.--A small perennial herb with 
a creeping underground stem, putting up short leafy branches. 
Leaves close together, forming an erect tuft, variable in size, 3-3 in. 
long including the petiole, obovate-spathulate, obtuse, gradually 
narrowed into the petiole, membranous, entire or irregularly 
sinuate-toothed, glabrous or sparingly pilose. Peduncles slender, 
usually exceeding the leaves, 1-6-flowered ; pedicels long, each with 
a linear-setaceous bract. Calyx narrow-campanulate; lobes nar- 
row, acute. Corolla +-3in. long, white or blueish-white with a 
yellow centre; tube exceeding the calyx; lobes broad, rounded. 
Capsule included in the persistent calyx.—Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 567 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 189; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 202; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. iv. 484. 
