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7. MIMULUS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. End. iv, 258. 



Erect prostrate or creeping herbs, often viscid. Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers solitary, ax ill.-iry. Calyx tubular, 5-angled; lobes 5, short- 

 Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed, erect or reflexed ; lower 3-lobed> 

 spreading, throat usually with a swollen 2-lobed palate. Stamens 4, 

 didynarrous; authers attached near the base of the corolla- tube, 

 with divergent sob- con fluent cells. Ovary 2-celled, style slender, 

 stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit an oblong obovoid or sub-linear looulicidally 

 2-valved capsule. Seeds many, minute, oblong. Species about 90,. 

 chiefly in extra tropical and mountainous regions of W. America, 

 Asia, Australia and Africa. 



M. gracilis, R. Br. Prod. 439 ; F.B.I, iv, 259; Collett Fl. 8iml. 350 r 

 Prain Beng. PI. 759; Coolie Fl. Bomb, ii, 287. 



An erect ascending or decumbent glabrous perennial herb, 6-20 in. high, 

 often branching from the base ; stem and branches 4-aogular, striate. 

 Leaves 1^-3 in. long, rather fleshy, turning black when dry, sessile or the 

 lowermost shortly stalked, ^-amplexicaul, narrowly oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, oltuse, entire or slightly toothed, glabrous. Flowers on 

 slender pedicels, $-1$ in. long. Calyx (in flower) in. long, somewhat 

 enlarged in fruit ; teeth short, deltoid, acute. Corolla about i in. 

 long, white or pale-blue spotted with yellow, glabrous ; lobes shallow, 

 rounded. Stamens included, filaments glabrous, anthers subreniform. 

 Ovary glabrous. Capsules in. long, included in the slightly enlarged 

 calyx. Seeds smooth. 



Wet places near Saharanpur, also in Delira Dun^ and in the sub-Hima- 

 layan tracts of N. Oudh. Flowers during April and May. DISTRIB.: 

 Punjab Plain, and N. Bengal ; Himalaya from Kumaon to Kashmir up 

 to 5,000 ft.; extending to China, Australia and to Trop. and S. Africa. 



8. MAZUS, Lour ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 259. 



Small herbs, often with runners. Leaves opposite, sometimes 

 rcsulate, those of the flowering branches mostly alternate. Flowers 

 in terminal sub-secund racemes ; bracts minute, bracteoles none. 

 Calyx broadly campanulate ; lobes 5, leafy. Corolla 2-lipped, tube 

 short, upper lip erect, 2-fid. ; lower much larger, spreading, 3-fid., 

 throat with a 2-lobed palate. Stamens didynamous, anther-cells 

 contiguous but distinct. Ovary 2-celled, short, stigma 2-lamellate. 

 Fruit a small globose or compressed luculicidbl capsule included 

 within the calyx, valves entire. Seeds many, minute, ovoid. Species- 

 about 6, extending from China to India and Australia. 



