1924] 
GRANT—A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS MIMULUS 199 
shorter or as long as the leaves; calyx 6 mm. long, almost truncate, 
teeth very short; corolla blue, 1.2-1.8 em. long; style stout; cap- 
sule exserted, elliptical, acute. 
Distribution: southeastern India. 
28. M. prostratus Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 373. 1846; Benth. 
& Mueller, Fl. Austr. 4:483. 1869; Moore, Fl. New South Wales, 
337. 1893. 
А prostrate, creeping perennial; stems pubescent, 2-15 cm. 
long, profusely branched; leaves crowded, narrowly oblong, 
obtuse, 8-13 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, entire, sessile by a broad 
base, thick, 1-nerved, grayish-green, mostly glabrous; flowers 
axillary, solitary, pedicels pubescent, shorter than the leaves; 
calyx tubular, more or less pubescent, 5-6 mm. long, becoming 
7-8 mm. long when mature, not inflated, teeth short, triangular- 
acute, sparsely ciliate; corolla 8-11 mm. long, violet, tube slender, 
exserted, yellow, throat broad, glabrous within, ventricose, lobes 
subequal, rotate, reticulately veined; stamens included, glabrous; 
style as long as the corolla, pubescent above, stigma peltate-fun- 
nelform, lips equal; capsule included, broadly oval, obtuse, de- 
hiscent along both sutures, breaking away irregularly from near 
the base; seeds subglobose, reticulate. 
Distribution: Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. 
Specimens examined: 
New South Wales: Nymagee, Nov., 1903, Boorman (Pomona); 
Zara, Wanganella, Dec., 1919, Officer (Wellesley); Tomingley 
to Narromine, Sept., 1898, Maiden (G). 
Victoria: Murray River, 1871, Mueller (M); Swan Hill, Oct., 
1888, French (G). 
The plants of this species are very brittle when dried. 
29. M. pusillus Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 369. 1846. 
Small, creeping, grayish-green perennials, densely pubescent 
With soft white hairs; stems freely branching, 2-3 cm. high; 
leaves few, narrowly oblong or oval, 1-2 mm. long, sessile, thick, 
obscurely 1-nerved, entire; flowers solitary, mostly terminal, with 
long, slender pedicels, these sometimes almost as long as the 
Plant; calyx narrowly campanulate, 3-4 mm. long, teeth very 
