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Mimulus continued. 



1835. An erect, villous, hardy perennial. See Fig. 576. (B. M. 

 3560 ; S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 358.) 



M. Fremontii (Fremont's), ji. crimson, with spreading limb. 

 I. spathulate or oblong. Stems 2in. to 4in. high. California, 1882. 

 Half-hardy or greenhouse perennial, suitable for pot culture. 



M. glutinosus (glutinous).* fl., corolla usually buff or salmon- 

 colour, obscurely bilabiate. Flowers nearly all the year round. 

 I. linear-lanceolate, sub-connate, serrulate, acute. h. 5ft. 

 California. A very elegant, erect, branching, greenhouse 

 shrub. SYN. Diplacus glutinosus. (B. M. 354, under name of 

 M. aurantiacus.) 



M. g. puniceus (scarlet).* fl. varying from orange-red to scarlet ; 

 corolla lobes commonly obcordate. Western California. (B. M. 

 3655, under name of Diplacus puniceus.) 



M. guttatus (speckled). A synonym of ii. luteus guttatus. 



M. Lewis!! (Lewis').* Jl. rose-coloured ; corolla lobes spreading ; 

 peduncles longer than the leaves. August. I. amplexicaul, 

 oblong, or rarely ovate, acute, somewhat toothed, many-nerved. 

 h. 1ft. California, &c., 1831. Hardy, herbaceous, erect. SYN. 

 M. roseus (under which name it is figured in B. M. 3353, B. B. 

 1591, L. B. C. 1976, and S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 210). 



M. luteus (yellow).* Common Monkey Flower, fl. yellow, with 

 two dark marks in the mouth of the corolla. Summer. I. ovate 

 or oblong, coarsely toothed. Stems ascending, stout, hollow, 

 glabrous or glandular, h. 9in. to 12in. Chili, 1826. Though 

 generally treated as a half-hardy or hardy annual, this species 

 is, under favourable conditions, of perennial duration. (A. B. R. 

 661; B. M. 1501.) Mr. Hemsley remarks, in his "Handbook of 

 Hardy Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants " : " M. vanegatus 



FIG. 577. FLOWERING BRANCH OF MIMULUS LUTEUS 



VARIEGATUS. 



(SYN. M. riwlaris, see Fig. 577) and M. guttatus are considered 

 by some botanists as varieties of M. luteus, and by others as 

 distinct species ; and the fact that hybrids between these 

 forms and M . luteus are frequent, seems to strengthen the former 

 supposition. M. variegatus (L. B. C. 1872) is a Chilian form, 



FIG. 578 FLOWER OF MIMULUS LUTEUS NEUBERTI. 



Mimulus continued. 



having much larger, richly coloured flowers, irregularly blotched 

 with crimson, maroon, or purple, on a yellow or white ground, 

 sometimes uniformly yellow or reddish. M. guttatns is a Cali- 

 fornian form near the last, in which the flowers are spotted with 

 purple-brown on a yellow ground. The intermediate varieties of 

 these three forms are numerous and beautiful." (B. M. 3336, 

 3363; B. B. 1030, 1796; S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 406.) M. I. Neuberti 

 (Fig. 578) is a strain with double flowers. M. I. noliliii (Fig. 579) 



FIG. 579. MIMULUS LUTEUS NOBILIS, showing Habit and 

 detached Flower. 



is a dwarf florif erous garden strain with " hose-in-hose " flowers 

 varying in colour. 



M. L cupreus (coppery).* fl. copper-coloured, purplish-brown, or 

 crimson, almost regular, with the limb of the corolla velvety and 

 spotted. Summer. I. ovate-lanceolate, toothed; upper ones 

 sessile, h. Sin. to 12in. Chili, 1861. (B. M. 5478 ; B. G. 422.) 

 This species is the origin of a great number of very beautiful 

 hybrids, known as M. maculosus. 



M. moschatus (musk).* Musk. fl. yellow, small, nearly regular. 

 June to September. I. petiolate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, a 

 little toothed, rounded at the base, rather pilose, and somewhat 

 clammy. Stems diffuse, clothed with woolly villi. North-western 

 America, 1826. A well-known and favourite little hardy peren- 

 nial. (B. B. 1118.) 



M. primuloides (Primula-like).* fl. yellow, ringent, solitary, on 

 axillary, scape-like, filiform peduncles, 3in. to 4in. long. I. 

 obversely lanceolate or obovate, many-nerved. California, &c. 

 Hardy tufted perennial. (B. G. 1009.) 



M. radicans (rooting), fl. white, with a violet blotch ; upper lip 

 small, bifid, lower large and three-lobed. I. small, densely 

 packed, obovate, obtuse, hairy or glabrous, Jin. long. Stem 

 creeping, with short leafy branches. New Zealand, 1883. A very 

 pretty and attractive hardy perennial bog plant. 

 M. repens (creeping), fl. lilac, with a yellow-spotted throat, 

 comparatively large. I. opposite, ovate or oblong. Australia, 

 1864. A dwarf greenhouse or half-hardy perennial. (B. M. 5423.) 

 M. rivularis (river-bank). A synonym of M. luteus variegatus. 

 M. roseus (rosy). A synonym of M. Leioisii. 

 M. variegatus (variegated). A synonym of M. luteus variegatus. 

 MIMUSOPS (from mimo, an ape, and opsis, a face ; 

 so named on account of the form of the corolla). SYN. 

 Synarrhena. OBD. Sapotacece. A genus comprising 

 about thirty species of milky-juiced stove trees, or 

 rarely shrubs, broadly dispersed over the tropical regions 

 of the globe. Flowers fasciculate, in the axils, at the 

 nodes, or at the apices of the branches ; calyx segments 

 six or eight ; corolla lobes eighteen to twenty-four. 

 Berry globose, edible. Leaves coriaceous. The two 

 species here described are probably the only ones yet 

 introduced. For culture, see Clirysopkyllum. 

 M. dissecta (divided). A synonym of M. Kauki. 



M. Elengi (Elengi). /. white, drooping, fragrant ; petals lanceo- 

 late, a little torn at the tips ; pedicels many together, fr. ovate, 

 with a slight groove on one side, dotted, yellow when ripe. 



I. oval-lanceolate or oblong, acuminated. A. 50ft. Deccan and 

 Malay Peninsulas, 1796. (B. F. S. 40.) 



. Kauki (Kauki). fl. white, fascicled, fr. oval, drooping. 

 I. obovate, very blunt, silvery or hoary beneath, crowded at the 

 ends of the branches, h. 30ft. Birma, Malaya, and tropical 

 Australia, 1796. (B. M. 3157, under name of M. duxecta.) 



