192 SCROPHULARIACEAE, Von. LLL. 
14. BRAMIA Lam. Eneyel. 1: 450. 1783. 
[Monnirra P, Br. Civ. & Nat. Hist. Jam. 260. pl. 28. f. 3. Hyponym. 1755. Not L. 1759.) 
[Herrestis Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem, 3: 186. pl. 2ry.  1805.] 
Diffuse or prostrate herbs, with opposite mostly entire obtuse leaves, and small peduncled 
flowers, mostly solitary in the axils. Calyx subtended by 2 bracts, 5-parted, the upper seg- 
ment the broadest. Corolla blue or white, nearly regular, the tube cylindric, the limb nearly 
equally 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. Style slender; stigma capitate, or 2- 
lobed. Capsule globose or ovoid, septicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous. [From Brami, 
a Malabar name.] 
About 20 species, natives of warm and tropical regions. Type species: Bramia indica l.am,. 
Leaves spatulate or cuneate; capsules acuminate at the apex. 1. B. Monniera. 
Leaves obovate or orbicular-obovate; capsules blunt at the apex. a. By rotundifolia. 
1. Bramia Monniéra (L.) Drake. Monnicr’s Iledge-Hyssop. Fig. 3781. 
Gratiola Mouniera 1.. Cent. Pl. 2. 1756. 
Herpestis Monniera U.BUK. Nov, Gen, 2: 366. 1817. 
M. Monnicra Britton, Mem, Torr, Club 5: 292. 1894. 
Bacopa Monnicra Wettst, in Engler & Prantl, Nat, 
Pil. 4:77. 1801. 
Bramia Monniera Drake, Fl. Polyn, Frane. 1.42, 1892. 
Perennial, glabrous, fleshy; stem creeping, root- 
ing at the nodes, branched, 6-18’ long. Leaves 
spatulate or cuneate-obcordate, sessile, rounded 
at the apex, entire, or sparingly denticulate, 3° 
10” long, 1-24” wide; peduncles mainly in alter- 
nate axils, slender, 2-bractcolate at the summit, in 
fruit longer than the leaves; flowers pale blue, 5” 
long; upper calyx-segment ovate, acute; corolla 
obscurely 2-lipped; stamens nearly equal; stigma 
slightly 2-lohed; capsule ovoid, acute, shorter 
than the calyx. 
On shores, near the coast, Maryland to Florida, 
Texas and Mexico. Widely distributed in tropical 
regions of the Old World and the New. June-Oct. 
Herb-grace. Water-hyssop. 
2. Bramia rotundifolia (Michx.) Britton. Round-leaved ITedge-!Lyssop. 
lig. 3782. 
M. rotundifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 22. 1803. 
Herpestis rotundifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 418. 
84. 
Bacane rotundifolia Wettst. in Engler & Prantl, 
Nut. Pf. 4°: 76. 1801. 
Perennial by stolons, succulent; stems creep- 
ing and spreading, branched or simple, villous- 
pubescent, 1°-2° long. Leaves obovate or or- 
bicular, palmately veined, entire, or slightly 
undulate, narrowed to a sessile or clasping 
base, 4-1’ broad, glabrous, not punctate; pe- 
duncles stout, shorter than the leaves, solitary 
or 2 together in the axils, longer than the 
flowers; flowers blue, 3-4” long; upper calyx- 
segment oval; corolla 2-lipped, longer than 
the calyx; stamens approximate in pairs; 
stigma 2-lobed; disk obsolete; capsule oblong, 
obtuse, 14” high, at length 4-valved, shorter 
than the calyx. 
On muddy shores, Illinois to South Dakota, 
Tennessee and Texas. June-Sept. 
