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. BRAMIA Lamarck. 
Bramia Lam., Eneye. Meth., Bot. 1: 459. 1785. 
Type species, B. indica Lam., of India. 
1. Bramia monnieri (L.) Pennell, comb. n 
Lysimachia monnieri L., cent. im ‘2: 9. 1756. “Habitat in America 
meridionali. Hallman.’ D. Z. Hallman sent to Linné specimens from 
Spain, so it would appear that eg: type of this was probably transmitted 
through im from some source in Spanish America 
Monniera cuneifolia Michx., Fl. Bor. er. 2: 22. 1803. “Hab. in lo ocis 
mari inundatis Carolinae inferioris [A. Michaux].” Description suf- 
ficiently distinctive. Type of the genus Habershamia Raf., 
Brena monnieria (L.) Drake, Fl. Polyn. 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, Obolaria caroliniana Walt. 
1. Hydrotrida caroliniana (Walt.) Small. ‘ vais 
Obolaria caroliniana Walt., Fl. Carol. 166. 1788. Type not veri ut 
description sufficiently distinctive. Doubtless from lower South Caro- 
district whe i the species now considered is frequent. 
ichx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 2:22. 1803. ae in 
fossis, atlas [A. Michaux].” Type not verified, but descrip- 
ti ficient disti tive. 
Means ciently Small ll, 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. oe seen in Herb. 
lumbi i } ; 
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 
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