Mimulm.] cm. sceophularine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 259 



very variable in length, breadth, and the size of the teeth, which are always small. 

 Capsule ovate-lanceolate, included. 



Vae. 1 J leaves ^-1 in., pedicels usually longer than the leaves, flowers | in. long, 

 fruiting calyx straight — Nepal, Sikkim, and Assam, alt. 1-6000 ft. 



Vab. 2 J much larger, leaves 1-1 J in., pedicels shorter than the leaves, flowers 

 1-lJ in. long, calyx often curved. ? M. tenellus, Bunge En. Fl. Chin,. 49 (Maxim. 

 I. c). — Sikkim, alt. 8-12,000 ft. — Possibly a different species, but intermediate forms 

 occur. The calyx varies from J in. long, obconic and straight, to | in. long subcylindric 

 and curved with an oblique mouth. Miquel's M. nepalensis, var. Japonica, seems 

 the same as this. 



2. ni. orbicularis, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 29, and in DC. Prodr. x. 373 ; 

 creeping, glabrous, leaves petioled orbicular nerveless quite entire, calyx 

 small truncate obscurely 5-lobed, capsule exserted. Wall. Cat. 3919. 



Peou and Tbn assebim ; Wallich, Griffith, &c. 



Stems rather thick, 6-10 in. Leaves |-1 in. di^m., rather fleshy, base rounded or 

 subacute ; petiole |-| in., very thick. Peduncles equalling the leaves or shorter, stout 

 or slender. Calyx J in., campanulnte. Corolla J.-| in. Capsule j in., elliptic, acute 

 at both ends ; style stout, persistent. 



3. m. gracilis, .Bj". Pj-oc?*-. 439; erect, glabrous, leaves sessile linear- 

 oblong quite entire or sKgbtly tootbed, calyx shortly 5-lobed, capsule in- 

 cluded. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 594. M. strictus, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 28 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 3918. 



Westeen Himaiata; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 1-3000 ft. Punjab 

 PLAINS. Ben&al, at Bajmahal, Wallich. — Disteib. China, Australia, Tropical and 

 S. AMca. 



Stout, branched from the base, 6-12 in. high, branches erect. Leaves radical and 

 canline, 1 J-2J in., rather fleshy, J-amplexicaul, obtuse, blackish when dry. Peduncles 

 longer than the leaves, stout. Calyx 5 in. long, tubular, lobes very small rounded. 

 Corolla J in. long, white or pale blue. Capsule obovoid. 



12. ItlAZVS, Lour. 



Small herbs, often with runners. Leaves opposite below or rosulate, 

 above opposite or alternate. Flowers small, in terminal subsecund racemes ; 

 bracts and bracteolea minute or 0. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla-tube 

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

 with a 2-lobed palate. Stamens 4, didynamous ; anther-cells contiguous, 

 diverging. Stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule included, globose or compressed, 

 obtuse, looulicidal, valves entire. Beeds numerous, most minute, ovoid. — 

 Species, 4 Asiatic and 1 Australian. 



1. nC. rugroBUS, Lour. Fl. Coch. 385 ; runners 0, radical leaves obovate- 

 spathulate crenate narrowed into a short petiole, pedicels mostly ebracteate, 

 calyx-lobes half as long as the tube ovate-lanceolate acute, spreading in 

 fruit. Benth. in BC. Prodr. x. 375; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 424; Sweet 

 Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 36 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 677 ; Maxim. Biagn. Nov. PI. 

 Bee. xix. 403. M. bicolor, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3913. M. vandeUoides, Hance ; 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 193. Lindernia japonica, Thunh. Fl. Jap. 263. Horneman- 

 nia bicolor, Willd. Enum. Sort. Berol. 654 ; Beichb. Icon. Fxot. 25, t. 37. 

 P Columnea tomentosa, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 98. ? Stetnodia tomentosa, G. 

 Bon Gen. Syst. iv. 842. Tittmannia obovata, Bunge Enum, PI. Chin. 279. 

 Vandellia obovata, Walp. in Act. Acad. Leopold, xix. Suppl. i. 394. 

 Gratiola goodenisef olia, Hornem. Bort. Hafn. 



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