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being in other respects very^ uniform. Some of the hill examples have shining 

 glabrous subserrate leaves, the peduncles f in. ; other plains' examples closely pro- 

 cumbent on mud are villous with sessile umbels. H. hirta, R, Br. diifers (if at all) 

 ^ Its laxly hairy peduncles : see Bmth. FL Amtral iii. 340, as to Var. pusilla only. 

 H. sibtkorpioidesy Lamk. ; DC. Prodr. L c, 66, which extends throughout South- 

 Eastem Asia and Japan, only differs (from the form nitidula) by the rather larger 

 leaves and longer peduncles. " 



^ Section II. Centella. Petals obtuse, imbricate. Secondary ridges as 



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Pe7'icarp much thickened. . 



_5- K- asiatica, Linn,] Roxb. Hort. Bern. 31, FL Ind. ii. 88; leaves 

 orbicular-reniform entire crenate or lobulate, pemmcle short, bracts small ovata 

 embracing the flowers, pedicels 0, umbel 3-6-flowered. Wall. Cat. 560 ; DC. 

 ^odr. iv. 62 ; TT. <§• A. Prodr. 366 ; Wight Ic. t. 565 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bmnh. 

 P' 105 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 113. H. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 

 7220. H. lurida, Hance in Walp. Ann. ii. 690. — Rheede Hort, Mai. x. t. 46. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-2000 ft. ; from the Himalaya to Ckylon and IVIauicca ; 

 frequent. — Distrib. Tropical and subtropical regions. 



V Leaves J-2|- in, diam., usually glabrous or nearly so ; petiole pubescent or glabrous. 

 "eduTicles about | in., often 2-3-nate, laxly pubescent or glabrous; bracts ^-^ in., 

 ^ot scattered among the pedicels (as in Eu-Hydrocotyle and in Araliacccs). Fruit 

 r~g- in. Carpels oblong, subcylindric, curved, slightly compressed, much longer than 

 Dfoad, reticulate-rugose, often crowned by the subpersistent petals, each \rith 9 cur- 

 vilinear subsimilar ridges, and 2 within the commissure ; pericarp thickened, 

 J^y, white. Seed compressed laterally. — In this species it seems to be the endocarp 

 ^nat is so greatly thickened, and that is adnate to the exocarp, thus invalidating one 



pi the most uniform distinctions between Umbellifcra and Araliacece (see Gen. PL 

 1. 861). 



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V ^ Spinescent, glabrous, erect, perennial herbs (the Indian species). Leaves 

 ^pinous-toothed, entire lobed or dissected. Flowers in simple heads, each brac- 

 teolate; bracts stellate, spinulose (in Indian species). Calyx-tube covered Tvith 

 ^cending hyaline scales; teeth rigid, acute. Petals white, narrow, erect, 

 emarginate, scarcely imbricate. Fi-uit ellipsoid, nearly cylindric : carpels dor- 

 *"y subcompressed, subconcave on the inner face ; primary ridges obtuse not 

 prominent, secondary ; vitfae in the primary ridges inconspicuous or 0, with 

 some very slender scattered in the endocarp; carpophore 0. &erf semi-terete, 

 ^orsally subcompressed, subconcave on the inner face.— Distrib. Species 100, 

 ^oiperate and tropical ; plentiful in Western Asia. 



V ^' fi- caeruleum, Bieb. FL Taur. Cauc. i. 200, excL syn. ; radical leaves 



cordate-oblong undivided crenate not spinulose, upper caiJine 



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 E. planum, LindL in Royle IIL 232, not of ^' 



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, otems 2-3 ft., erect, undivided below, corymbose and often bluish above. 



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