HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



The plant, of tufted habit with lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate leaves, 

 tapering at both ends, is covered with straggling yellow hair. The flowers, 

 deep reddish -purple in colour, nod on scapes 7 to 8 in. long, and are 6 to 

 7 in. in diameter. 



Pound in company with Meconopsis integrifolia on a pass 12,500 ft. 

 high, between the Provinces of Szechuan and Kansu, the watershed of the 

 Yellow and Yangtsze rivers. 



Plants remain in flower for several weeks usually three blooms open 

 at one time ; the most congenial treatment is as for M. integrifolia. 



MIMULUS LUTEUS, L., var. ALPINUS. 



Syns. M. cupreus, Regel ; M. variegatus, Loddiges. 



Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 530 (Note on Exhibit) ; Veitch in Gard. Chron. 1864, p. 2; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5478 ; Fl. Mag. 1862, pi. 70. 



This species, found at elevations of 6,000-7,000 ft., sent from the 

 Chilian Andes by Eichard Pearce, is the origin of a beautiful race of 

 hybrids known as Mimulus maculosus. 



MIMULUS EADICANS, Hook. 



Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xx. p. 21, fig. 



An attractive perennial bog plant from New Zealand : the stems creep- 

 ing with short leafy branched densely packed leaves ; the flowers white 

 with a violet blotch. 



MONAEDELLA MACEANTHA, A. Gray. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6270. 



A highly aromatic plant from seed received from California in 1875, of 

 a spreading tufted habit ; the bright scarlet flowers in close terminal 

 heads. 



NEPETA WILSONI, Duthie. 



A hardy herbaceous perennial 2 to 2f ft. high, produces flower in 

 whorls of a rich deep blue colour, introduced from Sungpan in the 

 extreme west of China by Wilson, and flowered for the first time at 

 Coombe in August 1905. 



NIEEEMBEEGIA EIVULAEIS, Miers. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5608 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1867, with fig. 



A trailing perennial, commonly known as the " Trailing Cup Plant," 

 introduced from La Plata in 1866. 



Common on the banks of the Plate Eiver, within high-tide mark, the 

 flowers rise above the dwarf grass and may be discerned from a great 

 distance. 



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