Hydrocotyle. | UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) 527 
Involucre of fruit 2-leaved : 
petals villous ; stem puberous ; leaves ovate- 
acts 5-toothed ; peduncles solitary, very 
shard: 42) eqqueeehs rs 2 Ga 
hairy on back ; stem subtomentose ; 
leaves ovate, 3—-5-toothed, or subentire ; um- 
bel sessile, many-flowered ... ... ... -.- (13) montana. 
*. petals glabrous ; stem glabrous ; leaves cu- 
neate-ovate, 3-lobed ...  ... ue ee (12) triloba. 
(11) Dregeana. 
1. H. verticillata (Thunb.! diss. de Hydroc. 1798, t. 3,) leaves 
peltate, orbicular, doubly crenated, 1 r-nerved, glabrous as well as the 
petioles ; flowers disposed in many, subdistant whorls, ultimate ones 
umbellate ; fruit rather attenuated at the base, coloured. lor. cap. 
asz, EH. & Z.1 2154. H. interrupta, Muehl. Catal. p. 10, (1813). 
H. vulgaris, «, communis, Cham. & Schlecht Linnea, vol. 1, 356. A. 
vulgaris, Thunb. fl. cap. and E. § Z. 2153. Zeyh, 2659-2660. 
Has. Marshy, boggy places, and on the margins of rivulets near Capetown, 
Zwartkopsriver, Howison’s Poort, Olifantsriver, ete. Oct.—April. (Herb. unb. 
Hk. D. Sd.) : : ¢ 
Stems rooting at the nodes. Petioles 2-6 inches long. Leaves orbicular, 1-2 
uncial. Peduncles shorter than the petioles. Umbels in the young plant capitate, 
about 5-flowered, as in H. vulgaris. Fruit about 1 line broad, j line long, usually 
reddish-brown ; mericarps with 1 or 2 ribs on each side. 
9. H. Bonariensis (Lam. Dict. 3. 147); leaves peltate, orbicular, 
doubly-crenated, 1 5—20-nerved, glabrous as well as the petioles; scapes 
umbellate at the apex and umbellately-branched ; flowers disposed in 
interrupted whorls along the branchlets. Cham. &§ Schlecht. tc. H. 
Caffra, Meisn.! in pl. Krauss. H. multiflora, Ruiz. § Pav. fl. Peruv. 3.p. 
24. t. 246. f. a. 
Has. Near Port Natal, Drege, Krauss. 127, (Gueinz. 534- Delagoa Bay, Forbes. 
Dec.—April. (Herb. Hk. D. Sd.) 
ocala. Petioles 2 inches, or 1 foot or longer. Leaves perfectly round or 
with an incision at the base; young ones dentate-crenated ; when old often 2-24 
inches in diameter. Peduncles as long or shorter than the petioles. Umbel com- 
und of 4-12 rays 4-2 inches long; the rays simple or dichotomous ; flowers in- 
se tedly-verticillate ; pedicels very short. Fruit «-line broad, coloured, scarcely 
cmarginate at the base and apex, mericarps with 1-2 ribs on each side. 
Asiatica (Linn. Spec. 234,) subvillous or glabrescent ; leaves 
a oe reniform, or reniform-cordate, crenated, 7-9 nerved ; peti- 
oles and peduncles in fascicles, pubescent ; umbels capitate, on short 
peduncles, 3-4 flowered, all the flowers fertile ; fruit orbicular, furnished 
with 4 ribs on both sides, much longer than the involucre. Rich. Hydr. 
n. 15, f: 11. Cham. & Schiect, lc. 365. H. pallida, DC. 4.¢. 63. H. 
brevipes, E. Mey. in herb. Drege, H. Asiatica et ficariodes, HL. & Z.1 2155, 
2150, Herb, Un. Itin. 495. Zeyh. 2661. H. ficarioides Meisn. m 
herb. Krauss. é 
Var. B, repanda, Jeaves reniform-cordate, repandly-toothed. H. repanda, Pers. .. 
Each, t. 102. Rich. Hydr. n. 13, f. 14, -H. fiearioides, Rich. 1. ¢,.. 12, f- 32 S 
Has. In humid places on the si of Table Mountain, in the Cape flats, 
on 
rivers from Zwartko ‘ver to Port Natal. Var. 8, in the same localities and near 
thelsdorf. Dec.—April. (Herb. Hk. D. Sd.) : ? 
Ss Ee vise olan Stem much-creeping and stoloniferous. Petioles 1 inch 
