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ide SCROPHULARIACEAE. | Mazus. 
3. MAZUS Lour. be 4 
Small herbs, often prostrate and creeping. Lower leaves opposite or 
rosulate, upper ones when present often alternate. Flowers in terminal 
subsecund racemes or solitary. Calyx campanulate, 5-partite, not angled. 
Corolla-tube short; upper lip erect, 2-fid; lower larger, spreading, 3-fid ; 
throat with 2 protuberances. Stamens 4, didynamous; anther-cells diver- 
gent, often confluent at the tip. tyle slender; stigma 2-lamellate. 
Capsule loculicidally dehiscent, valves entire. Seeds numerous, very 
minute, ovoid. 
A small genus of 8 or 10 species, extending northwards through Australia to the 
Malay Archipelago, India, and China. One of the New Zealand species is found in 
Australia and Tasmania, and is very closely allied to the Indian M. rugosus ; the other 
is endemic. 
Slender. Leaves #3in., linear- obovate or obovate - spathulate, 
membranous. Flowers small, about 4 in. long a .. lL. M. pumilio. 
Stout. Leaves 4-2 in., obovate or oblong. Flowers large, ?in. long 2. WM. radicans, 
1. M. pumilio &. Br. Prodr. (1810) 439.—A small perennial herb with 
a creeping underground stem, putting up short leafy branches. Leaves 
close together, forming an erect tuft, variable in size, #-3 in. long including 
the petiole, obovate-spathulate, obtuse, gradually narrowed into the petiole, 
membranous, entire or irregularly sinuate-toothea, glabrous or sparingly 
pilose. Peduncles slender, usually exceeding the leaves, 1-6-flowered ; 
pedicles long, each with a linear-setaceous bract. Calyx narrow-campanu- 
late; lobes narrow, acute. Coroila $-4in. long, white or blueish-white 
with a yellow centre; tube exceeding the calyx; lobes broad, rounded. 
Capsule included in the persistent calyx.—Hook. Ic. Plant. (1843) t. 567; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 189; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 202; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. iv ee) 484; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. fi g(1906) 485. 
En gt, Cala. Aawe-. PX. b.IOR. 
NortH Istanp: Auckland—Anhipara, Ir. 0. ; Matapouri, Colenso/ Lower 
Waikato, 7. I’. C., Petrie! H. Carse! Thames River, Adams; East Cape, Bishop 
Welhams / Wellington—Manawatu River, Oolenso! Otaki, Buchanan! Pencarrow 
Lagoon, 7’. Kirk! SournIstanp : Canterbury—Kaikoura, Cockayne ; Banks Peninsula, 
Lyall ; Canterbury Plains, Haast! J. B. Armstrong. November—February. 
2. M. radieans Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 486.—Stems creeping 
and rooting at the joints, often subterranean, putting up short erect leafy 
branches 1-3 in. high. Leaves close together, spreading, petiolate, 2-2 in. 
long including the petiole, obovate or linear-obovate, obtuse, gradually 
narrowed into the petiole, entire or very obscurely sinuate, pilose or almost 
glabrous. Peduncle terminal, 1-3-flowered, usually longer than the leaves ; 
pedicels with 1 or 2 linear-subulate bracts. Flowers large, 4-2 in. long, 
white with a yellow centre. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, not angled, pilose 
with jointed hairs. Corolla-tube much exceeding the calyx; upper lip 
erect ; lower lip much larger, spreading. Capsule 4 in. long, ovoid, enclosed 
in the persistent calyx—Mimulus radicans Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 
188 ; Handb. N.Z. Fi. (1864) 202 | 
Norte Isnanp: Wellington— Head of the Wairarapa Valley and Tararua 
Mountains, Colenso / Buchanan! Sourn Isnanp: Not uncommon throughout in 
wet places in mountain districts. 500-3500 ft. November—February. 
Imperfect specimens of this were described by Sir J. D. Hooker as a Mimulus. It 
has, however, the habit, inflorescence, and calyx of Mazus, and I have consequently 
transferred it to that genus, : 
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