1924] 
GRANT—A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS MIMULUS 135 
M. striatus Walp. Rep. 3: 275. 1844-45, sphalm (for strictus). 
M. pusillus Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 369. 1846. 
M. angustifolius Hochst. ex A. Rich, Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 119. 
1851; Walp. Ann. 3: 192. 1852-53; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. РІ. 3: 
230. 1893. 
A slender glabrous perennial, rhizome creeping; stem erect, 
1.5-3 dm. high, simple or branched from near the base, quad- 
rangular, the angles winged; leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, 
obtuse, .8-5 em. long, 1-10 mm. broad, 1-nerved, sessile, clasping 
at the broad base or subauriculate, entire or occasionally denti- 
culate; flowers in a loose raceme, pedicels elongated, 3 or more 
times the length of the corolla; calyx tubular, much distended by 
the mature capsule, 6-7 mm. long, ribs more or less purplish, 
teeth equal or nearly so, short, deltoid-lanceolate, sinuses broad, 
scarious, sometimes cleft; corolla 1.2-1.5 em. long, blue or violet- 
purple, occasionally white or pink, tube and throat broad, ex- 
serted, lobes broad, nearly truncate, minutely ciliate, upper lip 
erect and much shorter than the spreading lower lip, throat 
nearly closed by the prominent hairy palate; stamens glabrous, 
included, filaments thickened along the lower part; style glabrous, 
included, with a persistent tubercular enlargement at the base, 
stigma-lobes equal, broadly rounded, laciniate; capsule included, 
oblong; seeds oblong, reticulate. 
Distribution: in wet places in Australia, India, and South 
Africa, 
Specimens examined: 
India: Chota Nagpur, Feb., 1903, Prain 71 (Pomona); Lodh, 
Kumaon, 5000 ft. alt., without date, Strachey & Winterbottom 
(б); Changhes, Kashmir, 1 July, 1876, Clarke 496 (U. SJ; 
Punjab, 1000 ft. alt., without date, Thomson (G); in rice 
fields, Manneri, Himalaya Mts., 5000 ft. alt., 4 June, 1920, 
Dudgeon & Kenoyer 141 (M). 
Abyssinia: Bahara, Province Sana, 5 Aug., 1841, Hochstetter 
1629 (M). 
South Africa: Maputa, 1 Oct., 1909, Howard 22 (U. 5.); south 
coast of Africa, 9 Oct., without year, Ecklon (M); by the 
Kachu (Yellowwood) River, without date, Drege (М); N. 
Tondweni, Zululand, 12 May, 1903, Wood 9193 (U. S.); near 
