1919.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 243 



Flowering from July to September, and soon ripening fruit. Cor- 

 olla with throat yellow within, the lobes white. 



9. BR AMI A Lamarck. 

 Bramia Lam., Encyc. Meth., Bot. 1 : 459. 1785. 

 Type species, B. indica Lam., of India. 



1. Bramia monnieri (L.) Pennell, comb. nov. 



Lysimachia monnieri L., Cent. PI. 2: 9. 1756. "Habitat in America 

 meridionali. Hallman." D. Z. Hallman sent to Linne specimens from 

 Spain, so it would appear that the type of this was probably transmitted 

 through him from some source in Spanish America. 



Monniera cuneifolia Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 22. 1803. "Hab. in locis 

 mari inundatis Carolinae inferioris [A. Michaux]." Description suf- 

 ficiently distinctive. Type of the genus Habershamia Raf., Neogyn. 2. 

 1825. 



Bramia monnieria (L.) Drake, Fl. Folyn. Franc. 142. 1892. 



Sandy beaches, especially where subject to inundation, common 

 within tidewater, both where brackish and where fresh, growing also 

 in pools in the sand dunes, in the coastal pine-land, and inland up 

 the river-courses as far as Lake Okeechobee; on and near the coast, 

 North Carolina to Florida and Texas. A widespread maritime 

 plant of both the New World and Old World Tropics. Variable 

 in size of its vegetative parts, and even of its flowers, plants every- 

 way smaller occurring especially in drier situations and around the 

 pineland pools. 



Flowering in southern Florida throughout the year, northward 

 from April to November; soon ripening fruit. Corolla with tube 

 yellowish within, elsewhere white, or frequently tinged with pink. 

 Anthers dark-purple. 



Pennell (Florida)— 9534, 9537, 9665. 



10. HYDROTRIDA Small. 

 Hydrotrida Small, Fl. Miami 165. 1913. 

 Type species, Oholaria caroliniana Walt. 



1. Hydrotrida caroliniana (Walt.) Small. 



Oholaria caroliniana Walt., Fl. Carol. 166. 1788. Type not verified, but 

 description sufficiently distinctive. Doubtless from lower South Caro- 

 lina, a district where the species now considered is frequent. 



Monniera amplexicaidis Michx.. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2:22. 1803. "Hab. in 

 fossis, stagnis Carolinae [A. Michaux]." Type not verified, but descrip- 

 tion suflSciently distinctive. 



Monniera crenulata Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 22: 46. 1895. "Found 

 by Mr. A. H. Curtiss, growing in the bottom of ditches between Jackson- 

 ville and Trout Creek, Florida, on July 13, 1893." Type seen in Herb. 

 Columbia University at the New York Botanical Garden. This rep- 

 resents but a robust, broad-leaved state of the species. 



Hydrotrida caroliniana (Walt.) Small, Fl. Miami 165. 1913. 



Aquatic in shallow water, sandy soil, edges of ponds and in small 

 streams, in pineland in the Coastal Plain, North Carolina to Florida 



