short filaments; anthers orbicular. Capsule ⅙ in. long.—Raoul, Choix, 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 187; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 201; Bot. Mag. t. 6597. C. albula and C. Sturmii, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 391, 392.
North Island: Hicks Bay and the East Cape to Hawke's Bay and the Ruahine Mountains, Sinclair, Colenso! Bishop Williams! Adams and Petrie! &c. November–February.
2. C. repens, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 187.—A slender much-branched creeping and rooting pubescent herb, stems 4–12 in. long; branches very slender, prostrate or ascendmg, sparingly leafy. Leaves opposite, on long slender petioles; blade ½–1½ in. long, broadly oblong or ovate to orbicular, coarsely and irregularly doubly toothed or crenate, very thin and membranous, sparingly pubescent on both surfaces. Panicles terminal, small, 1–5-flowered; pedicels almost filiform. Flowers about ¼ in. diam., white spotted with purple. Calyx adherent to the ovary at the base; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla divided about half-way down into two nearly equal concave entire lips, upper lip slightly smaller. Capsule ovoid-conic, membranous.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 202.
North Island: East Cape and Poverty Bay, Bishop Williams! ravines at the base of the Ruahine Range, Colenso! Mount Egmont, Buchanan! source of the Patea River, T.F.C.; Rimutaka Range, Kirk! Wainuiomata, T. P. Arnold. South Island: Nelson—Cedar Creek and valley of the Lyell, W. Townson! Westland—Otira and Teremakau Valleys, Petrie! Cockayne! 250–2000 ft. December–February.
2. MIMULUS, Linn.
Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers solitary and axillary, or the upper ones sometimes forming a terminal raceme. Calyx tubular or campanulate, 5-angled, 5-toothed. Corolla tubular at the base, 2-lipped above; upper lip erect or spreading, 2-lobed; lower spreading, 3-lobed; throat usually with two protuberances. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers all perfect, 2-celled; cells divergent, often confluent at the top. Style slender; stigma of 2 flat laminæ. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent, valves usually splitting away from a central column which bears the placentas. Seeds small, numerous.
A genus of about 50 species, most numerous in western America, found more sparingly in eastern and tropical Asia, South Africa, and Australia; not known in Europe in the wild state. The single New Zealand species extends to Australia and Tasmania.
M. repens, R. Br. Prodr. 439.—Perfectly glabrous. Stems stout, succulent, creeping and rooting at the joints; branches prostrate or ascending or erect, 1–5 in. long. Leaves opposite, sessile, often stem-clasping, ⅙–¼ in. long, broadly ovate to oblong, obtuse, quite entire, thick and succulent, pitted when dry. Flowers few,
