PLATE DCLXI. 

 MIMULUS LUTEUS. 



Yellow-flow ei^ed Mimulus. 



CLASS XIV. ORDER IL 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSFERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Cal'SX prismaticus, S-dentatiis, Corolla ringens, 

 labio superiore lateribus replicato. Stigma eras- 

 sum. Capsula bilocularis, polysperma. 



Empalement prismatical, 5-toothed. Blossom 

 ringent, the upper lip folded back at the sides. 

 Shaft fleshy. Seed-vessel two-celled, many- 

 seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Mimulus foliis subcordatis, multi-nervosis, den- 



tatis. 

 Habitat in Peru. 



MoNKEY-FLOWER with nearly heart-shaped 



leaves, many-nerved and toothed. 

 Native of Peru. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . A radical leaf. 



2. The empalement. 



3. A blossom spread open, 



4. Seed-bud and pointal. 



The Mimulus luteus flowers the same year it is sown, like an annual ; but from its habit and manner 

 of throwing out round the base of the flowering stem prostrate branches, which take root, and from the 

 extremities of some of them other flowering stems shooting up, we are inclined to think it biennial. It 

 was long ago described and figured by Father Feuillee in his Flora Peruviana, and quoted from him by 

 Linnaeus, who inserted it in his Species Plantarum under the specific title of luteus. It flowers in the 

 autumnal months, and enlivens the borders with its successively numerous bright yellow blossoms ; is 

 easily propagated by seeds j and, according to Bonn's Catalogue, was introduced in the year 1812. 



