874: 
MIMULUS parviflorus. 
“Small-flowered Mimulus. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARINES. 
MIMULUS. 3 Calyx tubulosus, angulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla 
personata; labio superiore bilobo, lateribus reflexo; inferiore trifido, la- 
ciniis subequalibus. Stamina 4, didynama. Antherarum lobis divaricatis. 
Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula calyce inclusa, bilocularis, loculicido-bi- 
valvis; valvis integris. Herbz erecte, procumbentes, aut repentes, rarius 
frutices. Folia opposita. Flores azillares, solitarit, subspicati, aut rarius 
corymbosi, ebracteati, flavi, aurantiaci, violacet, aut albi. Kunth synopsis. 
2. 127. é ; ? 
M. parviflorus, procumbens, caule terete radicante piloso, foliis cordato- 
ovatis dentatis 5-nervibus, petiolis pilosis, pedunculis pilosis folio bre- 
vioribus. | 
Herba annua, decumbens, ad nodos radicans; ecaulibus teretibus, carnosis, 
pilosis. Folia opposita, cordato-ovata, petiolata, serrato-dentata, 5-nervia, 
avenia, plana, pubescentia, petiolo amplexi-cauli, plano, canaliculato. Flores 
solitartt, axillares, longe pedunculati, pedunculo foliis breviore Jiliformi, 
glanduloso-piloso, Calyx campanulatus, pentagonus, 5-lobus, pilosus, lobis 
compressis, patentibus, superiore multo majore, falcato. Corolla tubulosa, 
infundibularis, calyce paulo longior, subtus bisulcata, 5-loba, lutea, bila- 
biata, lobis 3, rotundatis, equalibus, inferiore emarginato, paulo majore: 
Sauce pilosd, sanguineo maculata, lineis duabus elevatis, Stamina 4, inclusa, 
didynama, basi tubi inserta ; filamenta filiformia; anther glabra, hippo- 
crepice, connectivo gibboso. Ovarium biloculare, polyspermum, disco nullo. 
Stylus filiformis. Stigma bilobum, lobis equalibus, planis, tenuibus, dilatatis, 
pauid laceris: inferiore recurvo. 
A pretty new hardy annual species of Mimulus, raised 
in the garden of the Horticultural Society, from Chilean 
seeds presented by Francis Place, Esq. Our drawing was 
made during last summer. 
It is extremely difficult to ascertain whether this plant 
be actually undescribed or not. It certainly is not referable 
to any published species, if we are to judge of them by 
specific characters and descriptions only; but it is not im- 
possible, that as nearly all the South American species have 
been described from dried specimens, which in plants so de- 
licate and vascular as this is, are much changed in their 
preparation, some allowance should be made for that cir- 
