RHINANTHACEAE | 1189 
4-5 mm. long: seeds grayish- -brown. | Herpestis amplexicaulis Pursh Septilia 
Ed ad (Walt.) sear Oe oro and ditches in pineland, Coastal Plain, S 
Fla. to E Tex. and Va.—Spr.-fall, or all year S. 
7. BRAMIA Lam. Creeping, glabrous, succulent, odorless herbs, the root 
diia Stems distally ascending. Leaves opposite, blades entire or ob- 
seurel othed, obscurely glandular-punetate, narrowed to a sessile base. 
l 
ling the tube, all equally A Stigma 
flat, per united and semi-eapitate. Cap- GSA 
oid, acute, glabrous, more one 
iode than septicidal. Seeds numerous, 
cylindric or ovoid, finely-ridged, wingless.— 
About 5 species, tropical. 
1. B. Monnieri (L.) Pennell. Stem and 
branches 1-6 dm. long, often forming mats: 
em. long, cuneat 
le des -1.7 ong, e to 
elliptic-cuneate: ped 5—25 £, 
usually as as or longer than the bracts 
epals becoming 5-7 mm. long, much exceed- 
ing the linear-attenuate, M ng od rolla 8—10 m 
pinkish-white: capsule 4—5 n long: se © grayish brown. [Herp 
edid (L.) H.B.K. Monniera yea LSB ritt e 
ers ponds, most IDA within reach os tides, near the coast, 
Tex, p Va.— (W. I., 16 ulus Be. AsO, W.)— Spr. “fall, or all year 
8. MECARDONIA R. & P. Erect or diffuse, much-branched, glabrous 
herbs, the roots perennial, the plant poten in drying. Stems angled. 
Leaves ds blades toothed, glandular-punetate, narrowed to a sessile base 
Flowers axillary to leaf-like s. Braetlets two, at the base of the slender 
p eh shorter than the bracts. Sepals 5, unequal; the outer mu 
vider than the inner. Corolla personate lobes horter than the tu he 
posterior more or less united and pubescent t Stigmas lip-like 
wi base. 
Capsule cylindric or ovoid, acute, glabrous, BN) the valves only slightly 
loculicidal at apex. Seeds numerous, ee reticulate, wingless.—About 20 
species, of tropical and temperate Amer 
Corolla white, the posterior lobes united half to two- or their length: sepals 
unequal, the outer lanceolate, rarely more than tw the 
width of the inner: plant erect or dit use, 1. M. acuminata. 
Corolla yellow, the .posterior lobes united nearly to apex: sepals 
nearly equal in length, the outer ovale more than thrice 
the width of the inner: plant procumbent or ascendin 
Outer sepals narrowly ovate to ovate, narrowed ies slightly 
rounded at base: pedicels 2-4 times the length of the 
braets. 2. M. tenuis. 
Outer sepals ovate to widely ovate, broadly rounded or cor- 
and a the base: pedicels 1-2 times the length ol the 
bracts. 9. M. procumbens. 
M. acuminata (Walt.) Small. Plant erect or nearly so, 1-6 dm. tall: 
(lower, diffuse, with leaf-blades 1.3-2 cm. long, outer sepals 5-6 mm. long, and 
