MIM’ULUS PUNICE'US, 
SCARLET 1 LU: Ss. 
EXOGENE et aie = Bi Bs - prcorrieposee, 
Natural division 
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this Plant belongs. F 
NATURAL ORDER, SCROPHULARINACEA, 
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DECANDOLLE. *( this Plant a, OF LINNEUS. 
No. 169. 
GENUS. Mruvtus. Linvezvs. Caryx tubulosus, quinque angulat us, quin- 
quedentatus. Corotia bilabiata, quinquefida, lobis subequalib STamMIna 
ulis di 
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m natis. Sricma bilamellatum. Capsvra bilocularis, loculicide 
ee valvis integris, medio septiferis, dissepimento demum apice fisso vel 
ntegro, rarius a valvulis toa SEMINA numerosa, minima, utrinque subu- 
atk: Hers suffruticesy ‘OLIA opposita dentata vel rarius integerrima. 
Pepuncuti axillares, iis solitarii, uniflori, bracteati; superiores sepe 
racemosi. 
PECIES Mimotus PUNICEUS. FRuticosvs, viscosus, glaber, foliis lanceo- 
latis acutiusculis subserratis penninerviis, pedicelli saxillaribus folio breviori- 
bus, calycibus elongatis plicatis, dentibus lineari-lanceolatis val deinequalibus. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Mimvutus. Catyx tubular, five- 
angled, five-toothed. Coroxza two-lipped, divided into five nearly 
equal lobes. Stamens four, didynamous, included in the tube of the 
corolla. ANTHERS with two diverging or divaricate cells, often con- 
fluent. Ovary two-celled, the placente adhering to the dissepiment. 
Sriama of two plates. Capsvxe two-celled, splitting across the cells 
into two valves, which adhere by their centre to the ‘dissepiment, or 
rarely separate from it. SrEeps numerous, minute, slender, and 
pointed at both ends. 
Description OF THE Species, MimuLus PuNiceus. A SHRUB 
or under-shrub of fwo or three feet high, smooth, but very glutinous, 
BraNcuEs erect, green, and herbaceous, acquiring sometimes a 
purplish hue, nearly cylindrical. Leaves of a dark green, very 
glutinous, lanceolate, rather more pointed than in Mimulus glutinosus, 
slightly toothed, contracted at the base where they embrace the stem; 
and those of the same pair are slightly connate. Pernice s solitary, 
axillary, from half an inch to an inch long, without bracts, bearing a 
sn te "sees a an sa cee slender, with five prominent 
near teeth, of which the upper 
one is much the longest. Coroiza altoypethe nearly as long again 
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