30 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
ing stem, reniform or ovate-cordate leaves, and small white flowers in 
simple umbels with conspicuous involucre. 
Type species, C. wllosa L. 
A genus of both hemispheres containing about 20 species, one of 
which is found in southern United States. 
1. Centella asiatica (L.) Urban in Mart. Fl. Bras. 11': 287. 1879. 
Fig. 2. 
Hydrocotyle asiatica L. Sp. Pl. 1: 234. 1753. 
HI. repanda Pers. Syn. 1: 302. 1805. 
Glyceria repanda Nutt. Gen. 1: 177. 1818. 
Chondrocarpus repandus Nutt. Gen. 2: in ‘‘ Errata.’’ 
Smooth or somewhat pubescent; petioles (7.5 to 10 em. or even 30 
cm. long) and peduncles (7 cm. or less long) clustered on creeping 
stems or runners; leaves ovate-cordate, repand-toothed, thickish; the 
2 to 4-flowered umbel subtended by an involucre of two conspicuous 
bracts; seed section narrowly oblong. 
Type locality, ‘* India.” 
Maryland to Florida and west to Texas. 
Specimens examined: 
Mary Lanp: Ocean City, Chickering, September 12, 1878. 
Fioripa: Near Apalachicola, Chapman; St. Johns River above Palatka, Curtiss 
992; Tampa, Garber, May, 1876; near Jacksonville, Curtiss 4332, 4961, May 9, 
1893, and June 18, 1894; Duval County, Fredholm, July 1, 1893; near Eustis, 
Lake County, Nash 1031, June 16-30, 1894. 
GrEoRGIA: Durand. 
ALABAMA: Drummond, in 1832. 
Mississippi: Horn Island, and Petit Bois Island, Tracy, May and June, 1898, 
Lovuistana: Lake Charles, Daves, in 1889. 
Texas: Lindheimer 613, in 1847; Hempstead, Hall 241, June 10, 1872; near 
Hockley, Thurow, September, 1890. 
The Asiatic specimens we have seen differ somewhat from the American forms, 
which may prove to be a distinct species. 
Centella asiatica floridana C. & R. 
Hydrocotyle asiatica floridana C. & R. Rey. N. Am. Umbell. 136. 1888. 
Petioles 2.5 cm. long or less, making the leaves appear in rather 
close clusters along the rootstock, more or less pubescent; fruit some- 
what larger and more or less pubescent. 
Type locality, shore of St. Johns River near Jacksonville, Fla.; 
collected by A. H. Curtiss, no, 988; type in Herb. Coulter, duplicate 
in U. S. Nat. Herb. 
Florida; also in the West Indies and Central America. 
Specimens examined: 
Fioripa: Curtiss as cited under type locality. 
38. BOWLESIA Ruiz & Pav. Prodr. Fl. Peruv. 44. pl. 34. 1794. 
Calyx teeth rather prominent. Fruit broadly ovate, with narrow 
commissure (carpels appearing nearly distinct) and stellate pubescence. 
