Volume 10 — PLATE DCLXI. MIMULUS LUTEUS. Yellow-flowered Mimulus.

CLASS XIV. ORDER II.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Two Chives longer. Seeds covered.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx prismaticus, 5-dentatus. Corolla ringens, labio superiore lateribus replicato. Stigma crassum. 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, dentatis.

Habitat in Peru.

Monkey-flower with nearly heart-shaped leaves, many-nerved and toothed.

Native of Peru.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

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 Feuillée in his Flora Peruviana, and quoted from him by Linnæus, 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; and, according to Donn’s Catalogue, was introduced in the year 1812.