NAMA (from nama, a stream of water; alluding to the natural place of growth). ORD. Hydrophyllaceae. A genus comprising fifteen species of low, annual, perennial, or at length suffruticose, herbs, of which one is a native of the Sandwich Isles, and the rest are found in North-west America and Mexico, one of them extending in South America as far as Brazil. Flowers often blue, small or mediocre, solitary in the axils, sessile or shortly pedicellate, or irregularly cymose at the apices of the branches. Leaves alternate, petiolate, sessile or decurrent, entire. The species are not much grown. They thrive in sandy loam or in any ordinary good garden soil, and require a sheltered situation in summer, and protection throughout the winter. Propagation may be effected by divisions, or by cuttings, made in spring, and inserted in a close, warm frame or propagating house. NAMA Parryi is the best known member of the genus. NAMA Parryi (Parry's). fl. lilac-purple, arranged in unilateral, dense, scorpioid clusters, on a terminal branched panicle; corolla about 1in. long. l. linear, repandly-toothed, villous, hirsute. Stems woody at base. h. 4ft. to 5ft. California, 1881. Half-hardy herbaceous perennial.