NAT. ORDER, 
Scrophularinece. 
MIMULUS AURANTIACUS. MONKEY FLOWER 
Class XIV. Didynamia. Order II. Angiospermia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, prismatic, five-toothed. Corolla, ringent, up- 
per lip reflexed at the sides. Pelate of the lower lip, promi- 
nent. Stigma, thick, bifid. 
Spe. Char. Stem, erect, smooth. Leaves, sessile, lanceolate, acu- 
minate. Peduncles, axillary, shorter than the flowers. 
The present species of Mimulus is equal in point of beauty 
to most of the inhabitants of our green-houses, to which situation 
it is most admirably adapted. The stalk rises about three feet 
high, much branched, shrubby, round, the young wood green, 
with a tinge of purple towards the lower part of each joint, 
slightly viscid, as it becomes older changing to a light brown color, 
and discovering several fissures ; the branches are alternately op- 
posite, and bearing flowers quite to the base ; the leaves are oppo- 
site, sessile, slightly connate, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat blunt at 
the extremity ; this bluntness is particularly apparent when con- 
pared with a leaf of the Mimulus ringens : toothed, or slightly 
sawed on the edge, smooth and veiny ; the Jfowers are inodorous, 
large, nearly twice the size of those of the ringens, and uniformly 
of a pale scarlet color, growing in pairs, from the axil of the 
leaves, standing on footstalks about half the length of the calyx ; 
the calyx is five-angled and five-toothed ; the tube of the flower, 
within the calyx, is narrow, cylindrical, of a beautiful pink color, 
bent a little downward, gradually expanding, and dividing into 
