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308 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Aug., 1896, Purpus 1988, 1989 (Calif.); gravelly soil, Kaweah 
Meadows, 9400 ft. alt., Aug., 1897, Purpus 5650 (G and Calif.). 
SECTION 6. MIMULASTRUM Gray 
$6. MrMULaAsTRUM Gray in Bot. Gaz. 9:141. 1884; Syn. Fl. 
N. Am. ed. 2,21: Suppl. 446. 1886, excl. M. pictus; Dalla Torre. 
& Harms, Gen. Siph. 457. “1900-1907. 
Eunanus $ Mimulastrum Greene in Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 
105. 1885, excl. M. pictus. 
Desert annuals; calyx strongly angulate-plicate, the orifice * 
oblique, teeth unequal; corolla salverform, tube short, included, 
throat exserted, gibbous, lobes nearly equal, rotate with erose 
ins; stamens approximate in pairs; style puberulent; capsule 
membranous, dehiscent along the inner suture and part way 
down the outer suture; placentae separating to the base. Sp. 94. 
94. M. mohavensis Lemmon in Bot. Gaz. 9: 142. 1884; Gray, 
Syn. Fl. N. Am. ed. 2, 2:: Suppl. 446. 1886. РІ. 10, fig. 13. 
Eunanus mohavensis Greene in Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 106. 
1885. 
Small profusely branched and leafy plants, 3-15 cm. high; 
stem and branches dark reddish-purple; leaves reddish-green, 
elliptical to obovate or oblong, 1-1.8 em. long, 3-5 mm. broad, 
acute, entire, sessile, or the lower ones often short-petioled; 
flowers numerous, mostly alternating in the axils, 
slender, 2-3 mm. long; calyx acutely angled, deep reddish- 
purple, broadly campanulate with spreading teeth, often con- 
tracted at the very oblique throat, ciliate, nearly glabrous ex- 
ternally, puberulent on the inside, teeth broadly deltoid, acu- 
minate, the upper tooth 2-4 mm. long, about twice as long and 
broad as the others, usually recurved; corolla reddish-purple, 
pubescent externally, tube very short, closely enfolding the 
ovary, scarious and constricted at the apex, throat cylindrical, 
exserted less than half its length, gibbous at the base, somewhat 
contracted at the orifice and with a few long hairs in 8 po 
down the lower side, lobes nearly equal, rotately spreading, vie 
mm. across, with white, ciliate, more or less erose margins, mark : 
by numerous red branching veins, base deep reddish-purple; 
