Hydrocotyle.] UMBELLIFERZ (Sond.) 529 
Pe aw 3 lines long. Mericarp on each side with 3 or 4 ribs, reticulated or un- 
7. H. hederefolia (Burch. Trav. 1. 46); perennial, decumbent, 
villous ; leaves cordately-reniform, coarsely 3—7-toothed ; teeth or lobules 
subequal, acute, entire ; peduncles geminate or ternate, shorter than 
the leaves, with a 3-flowered, monocarpous umbel ; fruit glabrous, 
suborbicularly-cordate, as long or a little shorter than the villous, ovate- 
acuminate involucre. DC.1.c. 70. Herb. Un. Itin. 407. #. & Z. 2161. 
s macrodus, Spreng. Cham. & Schlecht.l.c. H. moschata, Spreng. non 
Has. On the Table Mountain, Burchell, E. § Z., Mundt. Nov.-Jan. (Herb. 
Reg. Berol. Sd.) 
Much smaller than H. flexuosa, herbaceous, not woody at the base. Petioles 
filiform, 1-2 inches long. Leaves 6-8 lines broad, 4-6 lines long, usually 5-toothed 
or lobed, the lobes 3-angulate, the middle sometimes larger ; greenish, with im 
nerves above ; on both sides appressed villous by short hairs, at length subglabrous. 
Peduncles 4-6 lines long. Fruit as in H. flexuosa, from which it is chiefly distin- 
guished by the scarcely-villous, 5-angled-leaves. 
8. H. villosa (Linn. fil. Suppl. 175); suffruticose, whole plant more 
or less villous ; stem decumbent, branched ; branches herbaceous ; leaves 
ovate or elliptic, acute, with short straight or uncinate point, entire, 
3-5-nerved ; peduncles solitary or aggregated, shorter than the leaves, 
with a 3-flowered, monocarpous umbel ; petals villous ; fruit obovate- 
cordate, glabrous, longer than the villous, ovate-acuminate, 2-leaved 
involucre. Centella villosa, Linn. Spec. 1393. Mercurialis Afra. Linn. 
Mant, 298. 
Van. a, minor; villous or glabrescent ; leaves about 4-6 lines long, 3-4 lines wide, 
obtuse at the base. H. villosa, Thund./ Herb. var. a. E.g Z.! 2162, et var. lan- 
ceolata. H. mollissima, E.Mey.in Herb. Drege. H. uncinata, Turez! Bullet. de Moscou, 
vol, 20. 1847. Drege, 7610, 7615, 7611. 2 es 
Van. 8, major; villous or glabrescent ; leaves 8-12 lines broad, 7-10 lines long ; 
lower aes sometimes raheoetide H. villosa, Thunb. Herb. var. B. H. villosa, BE. 
Mey. E. § Z./ var B. latifolia. 
Has. Rocks on Table Mountain, at Tulbagh near Waterfall, Piquetberg, Blauw- 
berg, Winterhoeksberg, and at Olifantsriver; var B, in the same locality and in 
Dutoitskloof. Oct.Jan. (Herb. Thunb. Hk. D. Sd.) 
Stem and branches filiform, 4-1 foot. Leaves flat or undulated at the margins. 
Petioles 4-2 inches long. Peduncles 6-12 lines long, villous. Involucre in anthesis 
4-leaved. Petals very small, villous outward. Fruit 2 lines long and broad, com- 
pressed ; mericarps wrinkled, on each side with 3 ribs. . 
9. H. Solandra (Linn. fil, Suppl. 176); perennial, whole plant tomen. 
tose ; stem and branches short ; leaves petiolate, obovately-cuneiform, 
bluntly 7-toothed at the apex ; peduncles subsolitary, nearly as long or 
» than the leaves, with a 5—6-flowered, monocarpous umbel ; petals 
glabrous ; fruit elliptic-cordate, tomentose, a little longer than the 
4-6-leaved, lanceolate involucre. Lam. Ill. t.188. HE. § Z./ 2163. Herb. 
Un. Itin. 408. H. tomentosa, Thunb.! fl. cap. 250. Sieb. fl. cap. exs. n. 
140. Solandra Capensis, Linn. Spec. 1407. excl. syn. 
Van. B. longifolia (DC. 1. c. 69); peduncles shorter than the cuneate-elongated 
leaves. 
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