An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 192 SCROPHULARIACEAE. Vol. III. 14. BRAMIA Lam. Encycl. i: 459. 1783. [MoNNiERA P. Br. Civ. & Nat. Hist. Jam. 269. pi. 28. f. 3. Hyponym. 1755. Not L. 1759.] [Herpestis Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 3: 186. pi. 214. 1805.] Diffuse or prostrate herbs, with opposite mostly entire obtuse leaves, and small peduncledflowers, mostly solitary in the axils. Calyx subtended by 2 bracts, 5-part
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 192 SCROPHULARIACEAE. Vol. III. 14. BRAMIA Lam. Encycl. i: 459. 1783. [MoNNiERA P. Br. Civ. & Nat. Hist. Jam. 269. pi. 28. f. 3. Hyponym. 1755. Not L. 1759.] [Herpestis Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 3: 186. pi. 214. 1805.] Diffuse or prostrate herbs, with opposite mostly entire obtuse leaves, and small peduncledflowers, 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 nearlyequally 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 Lam. Leaves spatulate or cuneate; capsules acuminate at the apex. i. B. Monniera. Leaves obovate or orbicular-obovate; capsules blunt at the apex. 2. B. rotundifolia. Bramia Monniera. Drake. Monniers Hedge-Hyssop. Fig. 3781. Gratiola Monniera L. Cent. PI. 2. Monniera Nov. Gen. 2: 366. Monniera Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 292. Monniera Wettst. in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. 4=: 77. Monniera Drake, Fl. Polyn. Franc. 142. 1892. Perennial, glabrous, fleshy; stem creeping, root-ing at the nodes, branched, 6-i8 long. Leavesspatulate or cuneate-obcordate, sessile, roundedat the apex, entire, or sparingly denticulate, 3-10 long, i-2h wide; peduncles mainly in alter-nate axils, slender, 2-bracteolate at the summit, infruit longer than the leaves; flowers pale blue, 5long; upper calyx-segment ovate, acute; corollaobscurely 2-lipped; stamens nearly equal; stigmaslightly 2-lobed; capsule ovoid, acute, shorterthan the calyx. On shores, near the coast, Maryland
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