Sepras repens ; caule repente foliis oblongo-ovatis, floribus — 
solitariis. Lour. Fl. Cochin. p. 392 7? 
ANAGALLIs aquatica; portulacee aquatice# caule et. foliis, 
Sloane Hist. Jam. 1. p. 203. t. 129. f. 1. 8 
Herpestis Monnieria is very widely-extended: over the 
globe, if different species have not been confounded under 
the same name ; in the East Indies as well as the West, on 
the continent of South-America, in China, and in the 
islands of the Pacific Ocean. 
But, in truth, on comparing the descriptions and figures 
of the different authors, ‘and also the specimens in various 
Herbariums, we are forced to conclude, either that this 
species is extremely variable, or that distinct ones: have 
been very generally united. Apprehensive that our plant 
may be really distinct though we have considered it onl 
as a variety, we have added names which may be adopted 
should this be found to be the case. — a 
Our plant agrees so well with the description of that 
found by Humsgotpt and Bonptanp in the island of Cuba, 
that there can’ be little doubt respecting it. Jacevi'’s 
plant, found in the island of St. Domingo, is probably 
the same, although the peduncles are represented 10 ‘bs 
figure shorter than the leaf, and the flowers are describ- 
as snow-white. In Roxsuren’s figure and descriptiol 
the peduncles are shorter than the leaf, and otherwise 
admit of some doubt. The Seprtas of Lourerro doubtless 
belongs to the same genus, but the species may be differ- 
ent. The genus Herpestis was first established by the 
younger Gzrrver, in his Carpologia, and has been sinc? 
generally adopted; the name of Monnrerra having beet 
previously applied by Auster to a very different genUS. 
_ Our plant was communicated, in flower, in August, 1823, 
by our lamented friend, the late Joun Waxxer, 254 
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